Golf Summer Camp?
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A request for help from the PH small-ball cohorts...
An old friend of mine living on the continent has a golf-mad teenage son. My friend in planning to kill two birds with one stone; send him(the son...) to England for a couple of weeks next summer to play golf and at the same time brush up on his language skills.
He's asked me to see if there are any golf camps running, preferably in the south of England. I guess another option would be for him to spend a couple of weeks working at a club and spending time with the pro.
I'd appreciate any ideas or suggestions from those in the know; I'm afraid I'm more of a cricketer!
SS7
An old friend of mine living on the continent has a golf-mad teenage son. My friend in planning to kill two birds with one stone; send him(the son...) to England for a couple of weeks next summer to play golf and at the same time brush up on his language skills.
He's asked me to see if there are any golf camps running, preferably in the south of England. I guess another option would be for him to spend a couple of weeks working at a club and spending time with the pro.
I'd appreciate any ideas or suggestions from those in the know; I'm afraid I'm more of a cricketer!
SS7
Oooh interesting one. I know lee westwood runs a golf academy, but where,when,how much and for what age groups i have no idea. If you looked up golf academy/summer camps in the uk on google, then i a, sure you would find something to suit him and his fathers pocket. No, the google reference wasnt a piss take, i was being serious
shoestring7 said:
Cheers Snowy.
Actually I'd already done that; there's the usual google problem of sorting wheat from chaff though, hence my appeal to the PH's golfing masses.
SS7
No problem, like i said if you look on lee westwoods site, he has a golf academy, but i havent looked into it. Failing that, ask at the local pro shop, they might knowActually I'd already done that; there's the usual google problem of sorting wheat from chaff though, hence my appeal to the PH's golfing masses.
SS7
Here's a suggestion - where better than St Andrews? (top notch golf and education in one place)
http://www.standrews.org.uk/Playing-golf-in-St-And...
Your pal's son could have golf lessons each morning and then have alternating afternoons of playing golf and English Language Lessons. The University of St Andrews has an English Language Teaching centre but it's highly unlikely that they'd run a course of just one or two weeks. Having said that, it wouldn't do any harm to ask the question...according to the page below they offer summer courses for High School students interested in Science but there's no detail about the duration.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/elt/summer/
The contact details are: elt@st-andrews.ac.uk
Hope this helps
http://www.standrews.org.uk/Playing-golf-in-St-And...
Your pal's son could have golf lessons each morning and then have alternating afternoons of playing golf and English Language Lessons. The University of St Andrews has an English Language Teaching centre but it's highly unlikely that they'd run a course of just one or two weeks. Having said that, it wouldn't do any harm to ask the question...according to the page below they offer summer courses for High School students interested in Science but there's no detail about the duration.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/elt/summer/
The contact details are: elt@st-andrews.ac.uk
Hope this helps
skyetom said:
Here's a suggestion - where better than St Andrews? (top notch golf and education in one place)
http://www.standrews.org.uk/Playing-golf-in-St-And...
Your pal's son could have golf lessons each morning and then have alternating afternoons of playing golf and English Language Lessons. The University of St Andrews has an English Language Teaching centre but it's highly unlikely that they'd run a course of just one or two weeks. Having said that, it wouldn't do any harm to ask the question...according to the page below they offer summer courses for High School students interested in Science but there's no detail about the duration.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/elt/summer/
The contact details are: elt@st-andrews.ac.uk
Hope this helps
He won't get on the Old Course without a handicap - be warned!http://www.standrews.org.uk/Playing-golf-in-St-And...
Your pal's son could have golf lessons each morning and then have alternating afternoons of playing golf and English Language Lessons. The University of St Andrews has an English Language Teaching centre but it's highly unlikely that they'd run a course of just one or two weeks. Having said that, it wouldn't do any harm to ask the question...according to the page below they offer summer courses for High School students interested in Science but there's no detail about the duration.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/elt/summer/
The contact details are: elt@st-andrews.ac.uk
Hope this helps
Bing o said:
He won't get on the Old Course without a handicap - be warned!
Good point, but there are 6 other courses to play and about another 6 within a 20 minute drive so he wouldn't be stuck for choice.The Old Course doesn't give discounts to under 16s either. Whatever the situation, my advice would be to buy a short-term golf pass (eg, 3 or 7 day ticket) which gives unlimited golf on all courses excluding the Old and the Castle (the newest course) and it's much better value for money over a set period of time.
http://www.standrews.org.uk/Playing-golf-in-St-And...
There is a PGA golf school in Florida which is supposed to be very good....not in the UK but it is English speaking!
Officially you might need a handicap cert to get on the Old Course but given the standard of golf I saw on it when I played it they don't check too hard. I've played half a dozen of the courses on the Open rosta....sadly St Andrews is the one that cash's in on its name more than any other.....it's much,much busier, the standard of some players is a joke and they put you off the ladies tees on some holes to make it "easy". If you play at say Muirfield or Royal St George's there might only be half a dozen matches on the whole course....at St Andrews there can be that many playing two holes.
Officially you might need a handicap cert to get on the Old Course but given the standard of golf I saw on it when I played it they don't check too hard. I've played half a dozen of the courses on the Open rosta....sadly St Andrews is the one that cash's in on its name more than any other.....it's much,much busier, the standard of some players is a joke and they put you off the ladies tees on some holes to make it "easy". If you play at say Muirfield or Royal St George's there might only be half a dozen matches on the whole course....at St Andrews there can be that many playing two holes.
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