St. Andrews Golfing Charity Honors Vietnam Veterans DOUBLE amputee Mike Reeder, who became the first-ever wheelchair golfer to complete a round over the world-famous Old Course at the Home of Golf, has been made an honorary Friend of the Keepers of the Green charity in St Andrews. READ ARTICLE
USGA Executive Director Mike Davis Named 2012 World Golf Foundation Chair Mike Davis, Executive Director of the United States Golf Association (USGA) has been named Chairman of the World Golf Foundation’s Board of Directors for 2012. Davis succeeds The European Tour’s Chief Executive, George O’Grady, who served as the 2011 Board Chairman. READ ARTICLE
Mom and Coach Changing Junior Golf Around the World The World Junior Golf Series (WJGS) found a permanent home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, with the playing of the 2011 Gate American Junior, a three-round competition that ended two days before Christmas.
America's "strongest junior event" came of age in its third rendition featuring 15 nations, 74 golfers and an organization with leaders determined to change the experience of junior golf.
It all started 10 years ago in Germany with a mother seeking to improve the junior golf experience of her son.
Then an American coach worked with her son, and together mom and the coach came up with a unique way to drive junior golf to higher goals both on and off the golf course.
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Scotland Numbers at All-Time High The number of juniors taking up golf across the Highlands is at an all-time high as a result of the national junior programme ClubGolf.
In 2011, SportScotland’s active school network worked with the region’s PE and teaching staff to introduce over 2300 primary five pupils to golf in a flourishing schools programme.
This year, a new year primary five year group will be initiated to golf for the first time through the scheme, joining some 220,000 children nationwide that have been introduced since 2003.
It is hoped this new surge in numbers will have a direct and long-term impact on the health of local clubs throughout the area.
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World Golf Hall of Fame The World Golf Hall of Fame, in St. Augustine, Fla.
honors the game’s greatest players and contributors,
and its amazing 550-year history, through exhibits and
interactive presentations. An IMAX theater is
adjacent to the Hall of Fame.
The First Tee The First Tee provides young people of all
backgrounds an opportunity to develop life-enhancing
values such as confidence, perseverance and
judgment through golf and character education.
GOLF 20/20 GOLF 20/20 is a unique collaboration of all segments of the golf industry, designed to galvanize golf’s stakeholders around strategic initiatives and grass-roots activation that grow the game and ensure its future vitality.
Shell Oil Company - Sole Founding Partner of World Golf Hall of
Fame and Founding Corporate Partner of The First Tee
