Q Golf - Official online magazine for Golf Queensland Summer 2012 | Page 12

Parents’

role key to
Junior success
Some of the key ingredients include hard work, dedication, skill and patience...and that’s just for starters.

Anyone involved in golf knows it
takes more than just goodwill to run a
successful junior golf program.
Some of the key ingredients include hard
work, dedication, skill and patience … and
that’s just for starters.
Parents, says Headland Golf Club
AAA-rated teaching professional Matt
Victorsen, are another important cog
in the wheel when it comes to junior
programs. Without them, well, the
chances of retaining juniors diminish
rapidly.
Victorsen should know because he runs
one of the most successful junior golf
programs in Australia. In fact, in July 2012,
Headland received the MYGolf Centre of
the Month Award from Golf Australia.
According to Victorsen, that was due to
the proactive and progressive nature of
the club.
“We have a very supportive secretary
manager in Ben Dobson, great staff and
members,” he said. “I think you need a
strong manager who is willing to help
junior development.

been any roadblocks to stop their
development or stagnate the program.”
Manager Dobson said he understood
juniors were the future of the game.
“As a golf club we have a moral duty to
promote the game to juniors and make it
easily available and attractive to them,”
he said.
“With the constant demands of golf club
life, juniors can be easily forgotten.

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With the
demands of the
golf club life,
juniors can easily
be forgotten.

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By David Newbery

“The MYGolf program makes it easy to
run a high quality junior program without
having to start from scratch.

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