Golf Foundation JGM Newsletter Issue 58_Final 02/12/2016 12:16 Page 1 Issue 58 November 2016 The Golf Foundation helps young people to ‘Start, Learn and Stay’ in the sport, with ambitious targets Photo: Leaderboard Photography Leaderboard Photo: 40,000 extra youngsters visiting clubs The Golf Foundation team is pleased girls from different backgrounds per year in a encourage 50,000 extra youngsters through with progress this year but seeks to raise unique community to club pathway. Having a the gates of a golf club each year via HSBC the bar further in 2017 in our purpose to beginning often with golf in school, the system Golf Roots, with 15,000 playing regular golf make the benefits of golf available to any helps the young person find a start in club from there. young person and to help them ‘Start, golf through expert PGA Professional Learn and Stay’ in the sport. As a charity, supervision, playing regularly and attaining The great news is that in the year up to we passionately believe that golf should that first handicap. March 2016 we are very much on track, be a game open to all and our HSBC though much more work needs to be done. Golf Roots programme is underpinned The Foundation team is working hard with its This charity encouraged 40,000 extra by this, one of our core values. partners to recruit and retain more players youngsters to go through the gates of a club and we have ambitious targets in this area. In in England in the last year and 14,000 HSBC Golf Roots reaches 500,000 boys and England, by 2018, the charity is looking to continue to play regularly. Could your golf club make the difference? A number of golf clubs recognise the You’ll see on pages 3 and 8 how two clubs value of supporting this national charity, are making a fantastic investment by as it has a growing impact on junior supporting the Golf Foundation’s work sections of individual clubs everywhere. through their Captain’s Charity, while making This is emphasised in this issue, through a genuine impact in their own community. our Junior Golf Passport, our ‘Plus’ funding, Box of Tricks and discretionary Similarly, many clubs are helping by collecting funding to many golf clubs and projects. £2 per member as part of the subscription renewal process. These are two innovative To make this work we need the support of but straightforward ways of helping the next golf clubs and club players more than ever. generation to enjoy the game. JUNIOR GOLF MATTERS The official bulletin of the Golf Foundation Golf Foundation JGM Newsletter Issue 58_Final 02/12/2016 12:16 Page 2 Welcome… Welcome Family golf, ‘Plus’ offer adds As we approach up for kids the end of 2016, I bags of fun This charity’s objective of making the am delighted to sport more accessible to any young celebrate more The Golf Foundation sent out 200 person is exemplified by our ‘HSBC young people ‘HSBC Golf Roots Family Bags’ of Golf Roots Plus’ activity (funded by moving through equipment to golf clubs this summer, HSBC and The Gerald Micklem the gates of a golf featuring StreetGolf and Tri-Golf Trust). club into coaching clubs, chippers and putters, game Captain Phil Tiddy and the club junior team and regular play at facilities formats and targets, all for clubs who Since its inception in early 2012, Plus supported by HSBC Golf Roots. The expressed an interest in holding funding has been awarded to nearly 60 Golf Foundation has set itself an events to promote family play. offenders, kids with Special Educational projects in England and Wales to reach a Captain’s Charity ambitious target of helping 50,000 Needs (SEN), children in foster care, or Family golf bags were sent all over the country diverse cross-section of youngsters.A young people a year to visit a golf The charity is working hard to promote those who are disabled. Plus projects variety of delivery partners (Local a great idea... Ask club by March 2018 (we are pleased greater provision for family golf in England, generations to ‘Get into golf’ together. create access to golf clubs but also have a Authorities, schools, golf clubs, community to have reached a 40,000 figure for Scotland and Wales in support of the national Some 150 of the Foundation’s Family Bags crucial ‘Skills for Life’ focus concerned with groups) open up golfing opportunities for Enfield the last year). development bodies, part of an HSBC Golf supported this work. enhancing young people’s lives and are young people occasionally described as Roots strategy that is creating more young therefore an essential component of this Two golf clubs which recently adopted ‘hard to reach’, e.g. those from challenging Working with key partners such as the golfers who play regularly at club level. England Golf has offered marketing charity’s work. You can read examples of the Golf Foundation as the ‘Captain’s family backgrounds, deprived areas, young PGA, England Golf, Scottish Golf and Golf support and a new Family Guidance ‘Plus’ funding through these pages. Charity’ include Overstone Park (see Union of Wales, we are looking at new, England Golf named July as ‘Family Golf booklet available to clubs at more on page 8) and Enfield Golf Club. innovative ways of ensuring that young Month’, leading a drive to attract all the www.englandgolf.org/clubhouse Enfield has raised more than £6,000 so people enjoy their golf experience and far this year for the Foundation which want to stay in our sport. Check out our Laura, Louis, Beef & Troon, is a wonderful contribution from a club stories about the Box of Tricks, Family which prides itself on supporting Golf Bags and the Junior Golf Passport Tour players tee-up Masters children. As this year’s club Captain inside this issue. a perfect mix Phil Tiddy says: “Our success is built on having a committee, professionals, One of the Golf Foundation’s values is to and Pro-Am In these ‘Bake-Off’ times we have members and parents who genuinely work in harmony with other organisations European Tour players have been discovered you need a perfect recipe encourage and support our juniors to and this is achieved through building open, highly encouraging of the Golf for success, which we certainly play the game. positive and trusting relationships with a Foundation and its support of young enjoyed at The Open this year (see variety of people in a host of different people during two recent events, the page 16). A fantastic venue in Royal “Everyone works together and recognises that situations. I would like to highlight a few British Masters and this charity’s own Troon; great support from The R&A juniors are vital to the future of golf and we individuals who have made the work of the annual Pro-Am. allowed our team to welcome so are very proud of what our club is achieving.” Foundation possible over 2016: Ali many children and families to have a Jodiyawalla, our 17 year old ambassador Right from the start at The Grove for the try at golf and learn about where Has your club ever considered supporting who opened the Presidents’ Awards in May British Masters (for which we were the they can play; a deserved award for Andrew Johnston played Tri-Golf with the grass roots junior golf and the Golf Foundation in front of 200 people with such confidence official charity of the European Tour), we Dame Laura Davies and the kids with his trademark joy for the game, through the ‘Captain’s Charity’ system? and calmness; Phil Tiddy at Enfield GC who heard Luke Donald and Eddie Pepperell hundreds of youngsters and families new to promotion of girls golf; ambassadors as a number of players showed that nice has raised over £6,000 for this charity so saying great things about the value of clubs golf in the spectator village (see page 10). who support our HSBC Golf Roots guys can win. Louis Oosthuizen provided To play a part in a grass roots programme far in his year as club Captain, and Eddie supporting junior golf, while players like programme including sporting the icing on this cake when he wowed the which encourages young people from all Pepperell, European Tour player, who helped Chris Wood and Joost Luiten took part in Meanwhile, 20 European Tour players legends Brian O’Driscoll and Tim youngsters, promoting the UPS ‘Bags for backgrounds and abilities to enjoy the launch the Golf Foundation as European playing challenges to raise awareness, offered brilliant support to our 30th Pro- Henman, and no cake-mix would be Birdies’ campaign (see page 14). Mary benefits of the sport is actually a hugely Tour official charity for the British Masters before South Korean golfer Soomin Lee Am at London Golf Club (see page 12). complete without a bit of ‘Beef’. Berry would have been proud! worthwhile cause. Golf has helped so many and is also funding a large scale HSBC Golf scored a hole-in-one and triggered a Their encouragement (and huge patience!) of ‘us adults’ playing the game at golf clubs Roots project with local schools linked to £10,000 donation to the Foundation. All helped the Foundation raise more than everywhere and offers young people Frilford Heath Golf Club. this while the Foundation team welcomed £18,000. valuable skills as they develop. It’s a healthy sport, a sport for life, so it’s worth putting Thank you to all of the PGA coaches, Thanks, BGIA friends something back into the game.