PGAs of Europe news
Member countries urged to qualify for Pravets
Coaching and training events get thumbs up
Professional Championship of Europe, at the Pravets Golf & Spa, Bulgaria, is according to the PGAs of Europe: “firmly established as the No 1 individual playing target on the association’s tournament schedule, but first, for potential champions, comes the necessity to qualify for a shot at it.” Before the field of 60
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players can take shape for the second staging of the 72-hole stroke play title on September 17-20, each member PGA wishing to be represented has to nominate its national qualifying event to take place in the upcoming weeks. Some have already
specified their qualifiers. Some member countries have not indicated their intentions yet and are urged to do so as soon as they can. “Ideally every PGA
professional who includes tournament competition in their list of career intentions should get the opportunity to attempt to qualify,” said PGAs of Europe chief executive Ian Randell. “When Hugo Santos, the
pro at Vila Sol in Portugal (pictured above), won the inaugural championship in 2011 it put an achievement on his CV that, I’m sure, he will always cherish. Who wouldn’t be proud of such a title?”
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National is in regular use on the European Tour, the main challenge facing the designers relates more to the consequential increase in footfall rather than remodelling the course Ross McMurray, designer of the Twenty Ten Course, said: “There
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are many aspects to the course that golfers, professional and amateur, really enjoy, so we don’t wish to alter its popular appeal and the overall experience. However, there are a number of bunkers that will need to be moved for strategic reasons, because they are no longer in play for the longer hitters, while others will be upgraded. Some tees may also be placed in more interesting positions, and the Ryder Cup will demand a greater variety of flag positions than the existing greens currently offer.”
ourse design work to prepare the venue of the 2018 Ryder Cup, Le Golf National, Paris, has begun. However, as Le Golf
aunched last Autumn, the UniCredit PGA
Club, Costa Dorada, Spain, has been greeted enthusiastically by attendees. Former England head coach, Keith Williams, who is now head coach to the Czech Republic Federation, said: “The coaches circle will get 100% support from me.” Staged by the PGAs of
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Europe, the coaches circle took place in tandem with the heads of training summit. Thirty
he coaches circle launched recently at Lumine Golf & Beach
delegates were expected for each of the events, but in the event 36 attended each of them. The coaches circle was aimed
at those coaches involved in national/junior/regional team coaches and those coaching elite players as defined by a player competing on a recognised first, second or third level tour. The heads of training summit
covered topics such as training for career development and the core essentials of education.
Work begins on 2018 Ryder Cup course
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he Golf Development Programme has visited
nine emerging countries in a two-month campaign to ‘spread the golfing word’. New golfing nations
- spread between South and Central America, the Caribbean and the Far East – are said to have benefited from the joint initiative between the R&A and the PGAs of Europe as consultant coaches were funded in helping fledgling golf cultures to adopt best practices as they grow the game. Between mid-October and
December golfing missionary- style trips were undertaken to Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Burma, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago. This took the number of countries receiving such aid past the 50 mark funded by R&A surpluses from the staging of The Open Championship. In Argentina, Johan
Hampf and Henrik Lundqvist reported that: “The Association of Argentine Golf appears to be making excellent progress in their efforts of enhancing the knowledge of the coaches in Argentina. “ A long term strategy is
recommended to create a structured and sustainable development plan. Parallel to this a continuing development of the basic training program is needed to build good professionals for the future.”
Pro Shop Europe April 2012
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