News Article of the Week
Donaghadee Golf Club, Northern Ireland
Donaghadee Golf Club is the focus of this week's news article. With a wish to make the juniors more active they embarked on a structured coaching programme and re-developed their coaching facilities.
Click HERE to read how they did it.
Previous news articles can be found on the archive section of this website
Photo of the Week
Special Olympics Launch Leaders Manual
Congratulations to Special Olmypics on the launch of their Leaders Manual at Carton House. PGA tutors Gillian Burrell and David Kearney trained golf club volunteers to use the new manual to lead introductory golf activites with SO athletes. The manual was created with the help of Junior Golf Ireland's coaching manuals and we wish SO all the best with its roll-out. Pictured here is JGI committee member and PGA tutor Gillian Burrell with some of the golfers at Carton House.
Girls in Golf 2009
2009 was a successful year for the JGI Girls in Golf secondary schools programme. With assistance from the Irish Sports Council's Women in Sport initiative almost 600 teenage girls from nearly 30 schools across the country took up golf on a 10 week programme which was rolled out by PGA professionals, golf club volunteers and school teachers.
Click here for more information on the 2009 project. For a full review of the project click here For information about getting involved with this project in 2010 click here and here
PGA Level 1 Training Courses
The PGA are currently holding Level 1 training course in several Irish venues, some courses have already taken place. This 2 day course is aimed at junior convenors, volunteers and assistant professionals, and topics include chipping, pitching, putting, and basic swing techniques, along with notes on the preparation of coaching sessions. Below are the venues and dates of the upcoming courses:
These courses are run through the PGA at the Belfry, UK at a cost of 300e per person. A coaching pack is available by emailing coaching@pga.org.uk or ring 0044 1675 470333.
JGI in primary schools
The JGI Tri-golf Primary Schools programme continues within schools who are linked to a golf club seeking new junior members.
When a club expresses an interest in taking part in the programme a 'Tri-golf' workshop is run by JGI for Primary School teachers.
Child-friendly equipment and fun introductory games help to encourage success and a love of the game, after which pupils can visit the golf club where the PGA pro will work with the pupils and children are welcome to enrol on the JGI coaching programme.
To find out more about the programme check out our schools information sheet.
