Is Your Course Up For A Challenge?

The great 2008 “Get Into Golf” National Skills Challenge is off. Nearly 2,000 affiliated golf courses are set up to embrace youth and golf by challenging them to a number of golfing disciplines.


As the challenge was developed for junior golfers under the age of 18, it is a great way to promote golf to younger players and a fun way to challenge them at all skill levels.

Once a golf club signs up to become a National Skills Center club, it will:

• Receive promotional posters to display
• Receive an Organizer's Manual
• Receive Rookie & Tour Challenge cue cards
• Be sent a selection of Rookie & Tour manuals to distribute to the golf club's registered junior players
• Have access to an information section on the website, detailing skills, ideas, downloads etc
• Have the ability to input event details and scores

The Challenge covers five golfing disciplines: putting, chipping, pitching, bunker play and full swing. Each discipline has two Challenge activities, making 10 in total. The first official Challenge of 2008 is due to start tomorrow on Saturday, March 8th.

This is just a terrific initiative for clubs to promote and support the nearly three million junior golfers (ages between 12 and 17) in America as well. Similar programs have been adopted aimed to impact the lives of young people. But, perhaps not only young persons would benefit, but your course would as well by checking out some of the following programs led by the PGA of America and The World Golf Foundation:

The First Tee

National School Golf Program

Junior Links