What does your Pro/ Club do............

[clubchamp07]

regards Junior's?

I mean do the club just take their membership fee's and let them get on with it. Or does the club encourage lessons and plan for the future of the club.
Does your Pro give the junior's free lesson's, paid for by the club but free to the junior's?
I would like to hear what other clubs do for their junior's!

 

[Macster]

My own club is pretty proactive in encouraging the Junior section to be honest, and Juniors receive a big reduction in subs right through into their late twenties etc.
My son pays just £140/yr to play at my Club, which when you consider the Full membership fee is £875, is damn good value.
The Pro is pretty good with them, and encourages them, and his assistant rubs weekly Junior group lessons for very small ones, so it bodes well for the section.

 

[Nikki]

As a junior I play 165 euros and can play anytime 362 days of the year... Which is great.

There is a deal with the pro's of paying 75 euro's for a large group lesson which one has 20 of each time round...

Mind you it is a large group of very small kids (7-10 year olds).

 

[USER1999]

Our kids get a one hour free group lesson Sat and Sun. We also have about 10 on the fast track, who are mentored, and get free individual lessons.

Oddly, as a club, we are paying our Pro to coach his own son. Not sure I get that.

He is a tight wad though.

 

[stevek1969]

My club is not the greatest to be honest with the juniors,the pro give him his due is good with them and runs the lessons he takes £18 for a block of 4 lessons. As my son is 10 his fees are £50 a year till he's 14 so good value .

 

[DCB]

Our Juniors are given the opportunity to take part in group coaching sessions. The Club has this as part of their contract with the Pro. This year we had 12 sessions covering a programme that the Pro had provided and after discussion we tailored it to suit out exact needs. We had on average around 15-18 Juniors turn up for this coaching.

At this time of year, some of the Juniors seem to live on the course so their handicaps have been steadily dropping over the summer. With some of our older ones moving on to Uni this autumn, we will have a fairly young group to form the core of next seasons team from.

All seem to be very enthusiastic and are given a good number of strokeplay/medal/stablefors comps to play in over the summer in a bid to keep their handicaps reflecting their current golfing ability.

A good enthusiastic Junior Convenor certainly helps.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We have group coaching in the school holidays and inter-club matches. It is a small but keen section. The problem we have is that when we get a nugget who shows real potential they usually get taken by Wentworth on one of their acadamey deals.

 

[viscount17]

different set up as the Pro is not employed by the club. tbh I'm not sure if he's employed by the course owner (a business) or if he's self-employed.

However it's done, most juniors (or their parents) do pay something toward tuition but it's to an incredibly high standard. the 'assistant' is brilliant at handling the kids and the pro (GM Top 25) is a National youth coach.