Girls Golf Rocks is back in Buckinghamshire – and this year it’s taking new players on a playing tour. 
The campaign to attract more girl golfers, run by England Golf and the Golf Foundation, has been hugely successful in Buckinghamshire.

Meanwhile, to attract even more girls into the sport, free taster sessions will be held at three clubs. Each club will also offer follow-on coaching courses with PGA professionals. They will take place at Abbeyhill Golf Club on April 21, 1-3pm, Wycombe Heights Golf club April 22, 1-3pm and Wexham Park Golf club on May 5, 2-4pm. 

The new players will be supported at the tasters and on Tour by ambassadors from the Buckinghamshire girls’ squad, whose encouragement for the newcomers has helped to make Girls Golf Rocks such a success. 

They include 12-year-old Jessica Pilgrim of Stoke Park Golf Club, who has been playing golf since she was three or four. She said: “I asked my parents if I could please have some golf lessons. Nobody really knows what triggered it. I got some plastic clubs and played in the garden. 
“Then I kept asking for lessons. I went to a golf camp when I was eight and loved it.
“I love being out in the open air and I love that I can play a round of golf with people of all ages, boys, girls, women, men, and we can all play our own game. I love playing dads and daughter too as I am better than my dad.”
Girls Golf Rocks is running in 21 counties this year, with U.S Kids providing seven-irons for the girls to use. It aims to increase the number of girl golfers from an average of just two full members per club and it’s having a great impact. 
When Girls Golf Rocks ran in 15 counties last year over 850 girls had a go and more than 730 enjoyed it so much they went on to take coaching courses.

Book at www.girlsgolfrocks.org 
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