CORNWALL GOLF

PARTNERSHIP NEWSLETTER

Welcome to the September newsletter from

the Cornwall Golf Partnership.

CORNWALL DEVELOPMENT

OFFICERS NEWS

England Golf has launched a new and

ambitious strategic plan from 2014 – 2017.

The plan looks at a number of key themes,

including increasing the number of people

who play golf regularly, to increase the

number of members at clubs and

improving the image of golf.

There has been some good feedback about

the new Golf Mark scheme and five golf

clubs in Cornwall so far have signed up to

working towards the new accreditation.

The Cornwall Special Olympics Golf

project has started and over forty disabled

participants have been given the

opportunity of five weeks of coaching at St

Austell Golf Club and Hayle Golf Centre.

Golf was part of ‘Be Active Truro’ week,

organised by the Cornwall Sports

Partnership on Lemon Quay, in Truro

during August.

Over 300 people tried golf during the

project and there was considerable interest

in follow on sessions at local clubs.

Simon Wood Cornwall Golf Development Officer

SEPTEMBER 2014

Upcoming Events

Tuesday 16th

September

Fresher’s Fair

Truro College

Wednesday 17th

September

Fresher’s Fair

Duchy College, Stoke Climsland

Wednesday 24th

September

Fresher’s Fair

Camborne College

Sunday 21st September 2014

Cornwall Golf Mark Champs

Mullion Golf Club

Sat 4th

and Sun 5th

October 2014

Level 1 course

China Fleet Golf Club

Tuesday 7th

October 2014

Talent ID workshop

Duchy College, Callington

Wednesday 30th

January 2015

Devon and Cornwall Golf

Development Conference

Boringdon Park Golf Club

ENGLAND GOLF LAUNCH

STRATEGIC PLAN

England Golf has developed a new and

ambitious strategic plan to tackle golf’s

challenges and create a bright future for the

sport.

Golf is the fifth largest participation sport

in England, but faces some serious

challenges. The number of golf club

members has been declining since 2004

and this has put a financial strain on many

golf clubs all over the country.

This strategy sets out ways to ‘raise our

game’ to address these challenges by

working in partnership with golf clubs,

driving ranges and short courses.

England Golf’s ambition for 2017 is to;

• Increase the number of people who play

golf at least once a week from 750,000 in

2014 to 910,000 in March 2017.

• Reverse the decline in membership,

which has been occurring annually since

2005 and stabilise club membership at

the current level of 675,000 members.

• Strengthen the talent development

pathway from club to national level,

leading to international success for

English players.

• Improve communication, governance and

partnerships at all levels within England

Golf.

More information about England Golf’s

strategic plan can be found online at - http://www.englandgolf.org/page.aspx?sitesectionid=353&

New Golf Mark Scheme

There has been some fantastic

feedback on the new Golf Mark

scheme from the 8 Cornish golf

clubs that attended the Golf Mark

training workshop with England

Golf’s Jamie Woodford in July.

Golf Mark was re-launched in June

to ensure it meets golf clubs

requirements and there is an

increased focus on club

development, business, club

operations and marketing.

Golf Mark is a national

accreditation scheme that

recognises junior and beginner

friendly golf facilities.

There has been 10 clubs in

Cornwall that have arranged a Golf

Mark meeting and any golf club

that is affiliated to England Golf

can be awarded with Golf Mark.

Once a Golf Club becomes

accredited with Golf Mark, they

will also be recognised by Sport

England as a Club Mark facility.

Club Mark is a cross-sport

accreditation for sports clubs and

is a national standard for quality

sports clubs recognised across the

country for introducing new adults

and juniors into sport.

If any golf club in Cornwall would

like to book a Golf Mark meeting

or for more information please

contact Simon.

OVER 300 PEOPLE TRY GOLF

DURING ‘BE ACTIVE TRURO’

The Cornwall Golf Partnership took part in

the ‘Be Active Truro’ week in August and

over 300 people tried golf on Lemon Quay

in Truro City Centre.

‘Be Active Truro’ was organised by the

Cornwall Sports Partnership to get more

local people active and into sport.

This was the fourth year that ‘Be Active

Truro’ has taken place and there were over

a dozen sports and activities on offer for

people to try during the week.

Golf was available for people to try on two

of the days and PGA Professional Lee

Mitchell helped with the project and

offered free lessons with the Partnership’s

inflatable golf net.

All the participants were given information

about follow coaching at golf clubs all over

Cornwall.

There are a number of golf clubs in

Cornwall that attended local public venue

events over the summer to promote their

clubs and these events are a perfect

opportunity to increase awareness of your

club and to recruit new members from the

local community.

40 Disabled Participant take

part in Cornwall Special

Olympics Golf project

Over 40 disabled participants have

taken part in 5 weeks of group

coaching at Hayle Golf and St

Austell Golf Club.

The Blantyre Centre in St Austell

had five sessions with St Austell

Golf Club’s PGA Professional

Russell Binney.

There were also sessions held at

Hayle Golf for the John Daniel

Centre in Penzance and the

Murdoch and Trevithick Centre in

Reduth with PGA Professionals

Wayne Graham and Matthew

Tucknott.

The feedback from the participants

was really positive and there will

be more sessions planned for more

disability groups all over Cornwall

throughout the winter.

TALENT IDENTIFICATION

WORKSHOP

The Devon and Cornwall CDP Programme

continues with a Talent Identification

Workshop on Tuesday 7th October from

9am – 2pm at Duchy College, Stoke

Climsland in Callington.

This workshop explores the definition,

understanding and research associated with

talent in sport and discusses the key

concepts and challenges of talent

identification (TiD).

There will be a two hour theory session on

what talent is and how to identify it and a

two hour practical session with golf

students from Duchy College and Exeter

University.

The seminar is being delivered by Sport

Coach UK’s Coaching Advisor Andrew

Bradshaw and the PGA’s West Region

Coach Development Manager Justyn

Branton.

The workshop is free for anyone who

attends and includes lunch and

refreshments throughout the day.

Each PGA Professional who attends this

workshop will receive 25 CPD points.

Mullion Golf Club grow

the game at Culdrose

Family Day

Mullion Golf Club attended a

Family Fun Day at RNAS

Culdrose to introduce more people

into golf.

Mullion PGA Professional Chris

Ramsden was on hand to offer

lessons to anyone who attended the

day and taught over 100 people on

the day in the inflatable golf net.

There was a lot of interest in

follow on coaching at the club for

both adults and juniors from the

event.

Chris and Head Professional Ian

Harris have had a busy year

growing the game at Mullion,

which included coaching at local

secondary and primary schools, as

well as Boy Scout and Girl Guide

groups during the summer.

CORNWALL BOYS U12’s BEAT

CORNWALL GIRLS U14’s

The Cornwall Boys Under 12’s beat the

Cornwall Girls Under 14’s in a very

exciting match at Truro Golf Club.

The format was an individual stableford

competition, with the best 8 scores out of

the 11 juniors to count per team.

The girls’ team had won the previous two

contests and looked like making it three in

a row with a slender lead after 8 scores had

been returned.

The match turned in the boys favour in

matches 9 and 10, when Truro juniors Jake

Singleton and George Law both returned

great scores of 42 points (both were the

Boys’ team top scorers) and won the

trophy for the first time for the Cornwall

Boys Under 12 team.

The top scores for the girls’ team were by

West Cornwall’s Emily Jenkin with 40

points and Emily Wilson with 39 points

respectively.

The final results were the Cornwall Boys

team winning by 15 shots with 288 points

to the Girls score of 273 points.

All of the juniors that played in the match

are part of the Cornwall Junior Coaching

programme and there was some fantastic

golf played by both teams.

Weston compete in

Wee Wonders Final

at St Andrew’s

St Mellion junior Harry Weston

qualified for Wee Wonders Grand

Final at St Andrew’s on Saturday

23rd

and Sunday 24th

August.

Harry qualified to play in the Wee

Wonders Final by winning the

South West qualifying event in the

7 – 8 year age group at Farrington

Golf Club in Somerset.

The Final took place on the Par 29

Balgove course, with the format of

the competition being 3 x 9 hole

medal rounds added together for

an 3 round aggregate total.

There were 30 juniors in Harry’s

age group coming from all over

the UK through the qualifying

process at regional venues.

Over the three rounds Harry shot

three very consistent consecutive

rounds of 35, which left him 6

shots off winning in his age group.

Harry finished his first competitive

season 7th in the country for his

age. As a result of his impressive

finish, Harry will be invited to play

in the European Championships in

March.

NEW COLLEGE PROGRAMME

STARTS IN SEPTEMBER

A new Sportivate project designed to get

more students into golf starts in September

at Cornwall College, Duchy College and

Truro College.

The aim of the Sportivate project is to get

more 16 – 25 year olds involved and

participate regularly in golf

Interested students will be able to book

onto 6 weeks of group coaching at a local

golf club after the fresher’s taster events at

each college later this month.

The coaching programme will include

playing on the golf course using the ‘Tee it

up’ concept, which gives participants the

chance to play on the golf course starting

next to the 150 yard markers on each hole.

CONTACT THE PARTNERSHIP

You can contact the

Cornwall Golf Partnership’s County

Development Officer Simon Wood

Phone – 07971 624313

E Mail – cornwallcdo@hotmail.co.uk

www.cornwallgolfpartnership.co.uk

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Cornwall Golf Mark

Championships

The Cornwall Golf Mark

Championships was held for the

first time in 2012, with China Fleet

Golf Club winning at St Austell

Golf Club, and last year the event

was won by Mullion Golf Club at

Killiow Golf Club.

Last year’s winners Mullion Golf Club

There are currently 13 Golf Mark

golf clubs in Cornwall and each of

these clubs is invited to compete in

the Cornwall Golf Mark

Competition on Sunday 21st

September at Mullion Golf Club.

Each Golf Mark club can enter 1

team of 4 players and the team will

consist of 1 player from each

section (1 male member, 1 female

member, 1 senior male member

aged 60+ and 1 junior member).

The event will be a stableford

competition with 2 scores to count

out of the 4 teams members on

each hole and played off ¾

handicap. The total combined

handicap of the team must not

exceed 72.

The closing date for entries into

this competition is on Sunday 14th

September.