Whitford Park
Junior Golf Academy

About the Whitford Park Junior Academy

The Whitford Park Junior Golf Academy will be catered around developing your child’s love for the game of golf. Which can only be done on the golf course! In my experience, the most effective way to help kids improve is for them to have fun! Which means different things to different kids. Having small, realistic, but challenging goals will help your child find their “fun.” The monthly “hat” tournaments will help them along their journey, as they learn to take what they learn in practice to the golf course!

During our weekly practices, Juniors will be grouped based on age and skill level, with small student-to-coach ratios to ensure your junior gets the care and attention they deserve.

In my experience, the key ingredients for helping juniors find their love of the game centers around them seeing continued, steady improvement, spending time with their friends and being on the golf course with their peers.

Here at the Whitford Park Junior Golf Academy, whether your child has never touched a club or is a serious competitive player with big dreams, we can help develop and foster their skills and love of the game for life. We hope to have the privilege of helping your child.

We offer groups for beginner, intermediate and competitive juniors playing in tournaments.

For more information about the hat tournaments, scroll down below.

I am sure we have all seen the young junior teeing off from where their dad or mum does, top their ball down the fairway and make a 10 on the hole! This isn’t a very fun way to spend 2 hours!

For the past 5 years the junior program I helped run at my previous golf course was a huge success with juniors and parents. Parents are invited to come out and caddy for their juniors at our hat tournaments which take place 2 times per term.

I have seen juniors go from shooting in the 50’s for 9 holes from 100 yards at the age of 8 go onto shoot in the mid 30’s for 9 holes from the full length men's white tees by the age of 12 and 13.

In our program juniors will start at distances appropriate for their skill level and how far they are capable of hitting their drive. Juniors will get used to shooting lower scores and progress at an appropriate pace. As they move through the different hat levels, their skills improve and their scores go down the length of the course will increase.