The Welcombe Junior Academy Update

What a successful year the junior section has had in 2019, we started this year with 8 regular juniors attending the weekly coaching and about 12 juniors’ altogether.

The aim of the team was to grow this number and prove to non-golfing juniors that this is the sport they should be playing. At the start of the year we had successfully built relationships with multiple schools in the year, including primary, secondary, all girl’s schools, sixth form, and even disability schools!

We would go in on a weekly basis to deliver golf sessions and even managed to get some of them to come and visit us on a weekly basis! This was quite successful for us and led to an increase in juniors back at the club. As well as this we ran multiple different events through the year with day camps being held every school holiday, putting competitions, on course competitions, a trip to the British Masters and to round the year off, a Christmas party.

We have ended the year with 20 juniors and 14 of these coming to regular junior coaching! We are all incredibly excited with the plans we have for 2020 and the aim is to continue growing the junior academy with the support of all the members, parents and staff involved! The TWGA academy wishes you a very Happy New Year, enjoy and see you all soon!