Paul Lawrie MBE to launch a major new golf coaching programme for juniors in St Andrews.
St Andrews Links Junior Golf Association is a pilot scheme for Scotland and its first comprehensive golf coaching programme for juniors. It currently has 450 members aged 5-18 years and almost 100 volunteer coaches.
It was recently described as the "Rolls Royce" of coaching schemes in the world by Murray Macklin, an assistant national coach in New Zealand and former chief executive of the Golf Foundation in New Zealand.
The launch is taking place on
Monday 6 May at 11am on the Balgove Course, a children's 9 hole course, at St Andrews Links.
There will be the following photo opportunities:
Paul Lawrie coaching children
Paul Lawrie hitting a ball simultaneously with chldren
Paul Lawrie and children playing first two holes of Balgove Course
There will be the following interview opportunities:
Paul Lawrie, Open Champion 1999 and Dunhill Links Champion 2001
Alan McGregor, General Manager of St Andrews Links Trust
Alan McMillan Scottish Junior Golf Partnership (sportscotland)
Children, volunteer coaches and a local professional
For further details please call
Carolyne Nurse,
St Andrews Links Trust,
PR Manager
01334 466666
pr@standrews.org.uk