The golfing standard of India is soaring new heights with each passing day and now GolfRiTe, founded by Kapoor Singh former athlete and now a US-based trained golf coach, initiates a novel venture to set up school golf academies across the country with an aim to pick and groom budding golfers at the grassroots level.
Kapoor’s GolfRiTe has plans to start academies in various schools all over the country to broaden the field of junior golfers working on a mantra of ‘Catch them young’.
This will be purposely done to work on improving key skills among kids from a relatively young age. GolfRiTe has already had talks with various schools across the country to set up their academies.
Ace Indian golfer Shiv Kapur while formally launching the event said, “There is hardly any emphasis given to the grassroots level. You can’t have professionals like us without having any junior programmes.”
GolfRiTe will also bring in the world-famous US Kids Golf Tour and OZGolf, a unique technology that builds short golf courses on synthetic surfaces. The idea is to find three national champions from each age group and to further send them for a three-week training stint in Orlando.
GolfRiTe will also organise golf skills challenges in six age groups, ranging from 6 to 18, at its academies every three weeks. Golfers will compete in five different skills namely putting, chipping from the fringe, bunker shots, bump and run shots from 40-50 yards and pitching with lofted clubs to move up the merit list by earning ranking points.
Kapoor’s efforts to make his dream come true by working in association of Indian Golf Union (IGU), that runs a junior golf tour in India, couldn’t be materialised for the moment as the things didn’t work out.
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