ELGA Golf Development

One of ELGA's key objectives is to increase awareness and participation of golf for all ages. National Girls' Development Officer Kirstie Jennings and her team work tirelessly towards developing junior golf.

In accordance with the government’s “Game Plan” strategy for sport, the aim is to increase participation in sport and physical activity amongst the general population to create a greater level of health and make associated health care savings across all ages. Sport England, the sports council within England, has set itself an ambitious goal to get 70% of the population engaging in physical activity for 30 minutes five times a week by 2020.

There are several ways in which the government hopes to achieve its targets in getting the population to be more active. Sport England has chosen golf to be one of the ten priority sports to deliver the required levels of participation in sport and physical activity. This means that golf within England, in the form of the EGU, ELGA and The PGA will be working with Sport England to produce a business plan for golf, to modernise the governance of the game, to promote golf and to develop the levels of participation. Funding will be available from Sport England to implement the business plan.