ENGLISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE PLAYED IN JULY SO THAT STUDENTS AT USA COLLEGES DON'T MISS OUT
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Hats off to England Golf for changing the traditional date of the English women's amateur championship from May - when the SLGA stages its national women's amateur championship - mid-July, July 15 to 17, to be precise in 2014.
St Enodoc Golf Club on Cornwall's Atlantic Coast is the venue for what is now a four-round stroke-play championship. They changed from the "traditional" national match-play format a year or two ago.]
The move, says the England Golf website, "is designed to attract more netries and shouled appeal particularly to university students and especially those who study in the United States."
It makes sense that if most of your best players are still at college in America in May, you change the date to a summer month when they are back in this country.
The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association should be considering following the English example, particularly with something like
NINE Scottish girls enrolling at American universities next August.
Now, I can hear the "old brigade" saying "Nonsense, we have always played the Scottish championship in May. Why should we change it to suit girls who are out of the country?"
But times change. In the days of Jessie Valentine, Belle Robertson and Janette Wright, to name but three, girls did not go to USA universities on golf scholarships.
But they do now ... and increasingly so.
Will the SLGA even consider making such a radical change? I
would not hold my breath
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Hats off to England Golf for changing the traditional date of the English women's amateur championship from May - when the SLGA stages its national women's amateur championship - mid-July, July 15 to 17, to be precise in 2014.
St Enodoc Golf Club on Cornwall's Atlantic Coast is the venue for what is now a four-round stroke-play championship. They changed from the "traditional" national match-play format a year or two ago.]
The move, says the England Golf website, "is designed to attract more netries and shouled appeal particularly to university students and especially those who study in the United States."
It makes sense that if most of your best players are still at college in America in May, you change the date to a summer month when they are back in this country.
The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association should be considering following the English example, particularly with something like
NINE Scottish girls enrolling at American universities next August.
Now, I can hear the "old brigade" saying "Nonsense, we have always played the Scottish championship in May. Why should we change it to suit girls who are out of the country?"
But times change. In the days of Jessie Valentine, Belle Robertson and Janette Wright, to name but three, girls did not go to USA universities on golf scholarships.
But they do now ... and increasingly so.
Will the SLGA even consider making such a radical change? I
would not hold my breath
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