After a number of meetings and three workshops held around the county, the Suffolk Golf Partnership has been established. Suffolk is one of many County Golf Partnerships that are developing throughout England with the aim of bringing together the three main golfing organisations, the English Golf Union (EGU), English Womens Golf Association (EWGA) and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA), with support from the Golf Foundation and Sport England.

 

Amongst the main aims of the Suffolk Golf Partnership are :

• To promote the game of golf and increase peoples awareness of golf in Suffolk
• To attract more people to the sport of golf irrespective of ability, age, gender or race
• To increase the number of players playing golf in Suffolk
• To assist Suffolk golf clubs to increase their membership numbers
• To facilitate links between golf clubs and schools to enable golf to become a core sport in Suffolk schools

At a local level the idea is to utilize combined knowledge, experience and resources to support golf within the county. There will be considerable benefit to the game by getting all the golfing organizations to work together as a team. Through this joint approach Golf in Suffolk has greater potential to draw in external support in particular through Sport England and Suffolk Sport, the County Sports Partnership. This approach is integral to England Golf Partnerships vision to Grow the game. The English Golf Union has a vision to be the leading golf nation by 2020.

 

 

A strong message coming from clubs through the workshops is the need to promote golf more effectively with the general public and to engage with community partners. Views and ideas from outside the game are also welcomed to feed into the planning process.