CALLANDER GOLF CLUB GETS £450 BOOST FROM GOLF FOUNDATION

Flashback to 2004 and it's Sandy Lyle with Callander GC’s first intake on clubgolf.

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Callander Golf Club, which has doubled its junior section in recent years, has been awarded a grant to support its leading young players.
Callander was, in 2004, one of the first clubs in Scotland to come on board with Scottish Golf’s junior development programme, clubgolf.
Since then its junior membership has grown from less than 50 to over 100. Its junior programme has flourished under its pro, Allan Martin, his assistant Stuart Winter and the club’s six volunteer coaches.
With playing standards, as well as numbers of juniors rising, the club has been awarded £450 from clubgolf partner, the Golf Foundation, through its Discretionary Grant Scheme for clubs and facilities signed up to deliver the clubgolf programme.
The grant will enable Martin to give 10 of his most committed pupils coaching on his clubgolf Stage 3 programme through the summer.
“This funding will go a long way towards helping these juniors have coaching that they wouldn't have had otherwise and we are very grateful to the Golf Foundation and clubgolf,” said Martin, who will run the coaching over ten weeks.
Each week he will give a short game and long game session, incorporating on course work to develop course management skills.
“I coached our more advanced juniors two years ago and it made a big difference to their performances. This summer will be individual coaching which will keep them progressing through the season.”
More juniors are playing at Callander as a result of Martin’s clubgolf coaching programme and the club’s association with its nearby school.
Callander Primary has been offering its P5 children clubgolf’s introductory game since 2004 and is a feeder to the club, which is seeing more players come to coaching from non golfing families.
“Two of the children in my Stage 3 coaching programme are from our first bunch of clubgolf juniors,” added Martin.
“One of them is now down to a five handicap, and he started off in the first year of clubgolf programme here in 2004. He wasn't a golfer originally, he came through the school programme, and there are others that are biting on his heels.”

Rob Eyton-Jones
e: rob@eyton-jones.co.uk