SGU East Academy breakthrough for three

Martyn Huish pupils at North Berwick

FROM THE PGA E-BULLETIN
North Berwick pro Martyn Huish is celebrating after three of his pupils were recognised with call-ups to the Scottish Golf Union’s East Academy. Huish has been coaching the trio - Clara Young, aged 13, from North Berwick GC, and 14-year-olds Euan Bowden and Calum Hill of Glen and Tantallon GCs – as part of Scotland’s clubgolf programme.
They will receive coaching from Colin Brooks at the academy’s Braid Hills base in Edinburgh.
“These are our first players to make the Academy, which is fantastic news and hopefully they will be followed by many more,” said Huish who is one of the first PGA professionals to embrace the clubgolf programme.
His club has a 20 strong base of qualified volunteer coaches and 96 children in its programme.
“We are continually telling everyone in the programme what can happen at the end of it, so this
makes it worth all the effort we have put in from the start,” added Huish.
“We’ve got a good batch of kids here and they are all feeding off each other. We don’t have the situation which you often get when one junior is a long way ahead of all the others and doesn’t get the competition they need to develop.
“We keep them altogether which keeps them grounded. Because there is such competition within the club set-up these kids are all working hard to win their own competitions.”