Celebrating 20 Years Of St Andrews Juniors

The St Andrews Links Junior Golf Association has been working with local children for two decades, offering clinics and free golf. Photo: Courtesy SALJGA

ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND | The week of the Dunhill Links Championship spelled the end of the 2022 championship season in St Andrews. Though the weather served both as a reminder of summer and winter warnings, there were plenty of signs of new beginnings. For me, at least, these started with the party of nursery-school children who were being escorted down the first hole in their high-visibility yellow jackets on the Thursday.

You doubted whether any of them knew the first thing about the tournament players, but had this charming little crew been on a visit to the local zoo, they could not have looked more excited.

Still earlier in that week, Laurie Watson, head of Communications at the St Andrews Links Trust, had boasted of the Trust celebrating the 20th anniversary of its junior coaching program. The scheme in question is called SALJGA (St Andrews Links Junior Golf Association)...