Photography GOLF FOUNDATION
Children have none of the preconceptions about golf that many adults share – they just want to pick up a club and hit the ball. The Golf Foundation is the charity that has helped young people to do this since 1952. Talk to its committed team and you soon discover they share much the same philosophy as the kids: it’s simply a great game to enjoy, and it should be enjoyed by everyone who wants to try it.
Sir Henry Cotton, who won three Open Championships either side of the Second World War (1934, ’37, ’48), said of junior golf: “We should give the game, without compromise, without intimidation, without prejudice, to as many as we possibly can.”
Cotton, along with Jack Burroughs of British Steel Golf Shafts, Walker Cup player Gerald Micklem and other allies, helped set up the Golf Foundation 70 years ago to put golf in schools.
