Player Funnel

The GA is especially keen is assist players who desire to aspire to Tertiary Education through golf. Currently there are 15 Hong Kong young men and women who are enrolled in Golf Universities, many of these through scholarships. This provides players with free or low cost education whilst at the same time giving opportunity to develop their golf game.

This is just a brief overview of some of the GA’s strategy and we believe as a golf association we cannot judge the success of our program based on one player – if so the Fiji golf association is the most successful ever having ownership of former World No 1 player Vijay Singh! We want to create opportunity, pathways and exciting golf experiences for player’s at every stage of the funnel, irrespective of their ambition – whether it is to just have fun playing sport previously unknown to them or if they aspire to be the next World No 1.

Next month – in the second part of this 3 part series concerning the development of HK Golf we have asked Jonathan what are the keys to develop elite Juniors? Is it about practice, practice, practice?? Jonathan will discuss his tried and tested model to accelerate elite player development.

Jonathan Wallett is a well-travelled coach having delivered Academy Programs and Camps for Elite Players in Europe, Asia and Australia for over 15 years, been the Academy Director of ECGA at the prestigious Evian Royal Resort in France and worked on the main Professional Tours for 5 seasons. (jon.wallett@hkga.com)