WENTWORTH TRIP TO RECEIVE GOLF FOUNDATION ACCOLADE

 FORTROSE and ROSEMARKIE'S 

ALISTAIR TAIT WINS STAR AWARD

NEWS RELEASE
The Golf Foundation's Gallacher Award goes to an exceptional volunteer and Alistair Tait (pictured) at Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Club has won the accolade and received his prize at the Wentworth Club, Surrey.
Supporting the coaching there since 2005, Alistair is now coaching co-ordinator of the junior section, seeing this rising from 94 to 131 in 2013.
Alistair secured funding to develop the practice facilities and set out a three-hole mini-course on the practice ground for the younger juniors.
Coaching numbers in 2013 were exceptional with 80 children signing up after Easter and a total of nine trained coaches taking regular one-hour sessions.
Attention to detail is a key. Alistair purchased and fitted mirrors to the storage shed on the practice area as a teaching aid, and painted the three covered bays himself. 
The club's reputation led to a visit from the French Golf Federation to experienced its methods and the club was the first without a PGA pro to be awarded the status of a Scottish Golf Development Centre.
Mike Round of the Golf Foundation said: "Teams need leaders and Fortrose and Rosemarkie's junior programme has one of the best."