St Andrews Golf Camp is a unique golfing experience for junior golfers to learn and expand not only their golfing

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1 St Andrews Golf Camp is a unique golfing experience for junior golfers to learn and expand not only their golfing knowledge but to gain new cultural experiences while making new friends in an international setting. Over the course of the 7 day Golf Camp the Juniors will have the chance to learn Links Golf from some of the best professionals in the country, experience playing some of the finest links golf courses in the world, play golf like it used to be played at the fantastic Kingarroch hickory course, learn about the history of the game at The British Golf museum, play a Ryder cup style match against Scottish juniors and learn and experience some of Scotland s finest traditions. We look forward to welcoming you to The Home of Golf Marc Gentles Graeme Dawson Jamie Gentles

2 Accommodation & Supervision St Andrews Golf Camp juniors are accommodated in University Hall, which belongs to St Andrews University. University Hall is one of the larger and more historic halls situated a mere five- minute walk from the centre of town and backing onto the Athletic Union as well as the North Haugh. University Hall was built in It is now split into three main sections; Wardlaw, Lumsden and Old Wing with St Andrews Golf Camp utilizing the Wardlaw building for each golf camp During our camps, all breakfast, lunch and dinners are included so only additional spending money is required. Each camp is fully supervised by Marc Gentles (former Scotland Internationalist), Graeme Dawson (former St Andrews University golf team captain) Jamie Gentles (wealth of experience working in a number of 5 star establishments) and Andy Weir (Kingsbarns caddie and former golf scholar in North Carolina)

3 St Andrews Links Academy The Academy boasts some of the finest state of the art teaching facilities as well as a great short game area and driving range. While in St Andrews Steve North and his team of PGA professional will be working on teaching our juniors the key aspects to mastering the Links game. There will be no swing reconstructions or technical pointers unless this is something the individual would like. We will be working on teaching the juniors how best to play the links game. This will include trajectory control, shot shaping and spin control. Around the greens will include bump and run chip shots, pot bunker play and long putting. All these things will help prepare the juniors for the challenges that lie ahead of them when playing Links golf

4 Hickory Golf Playing golf at Kingarroch is a truly amazing experience. This is a short 9- hole course just outside St Andrews where hickory clubs from the early 20th century must be used. It s about playing golf as it used to be played on a natural golf course layout with hickory sticks really put your swing to the test. What will add to the experience is the welcome received by all our guests from the charismatic owner David Anderson. Dressed in his plus fours and wearing his tartan waistcoat David will be sure to give our juniors a stern lesson on the history and progression of the game as well as several friendly pointers in how best to go about playing with Hickory club

5 St Andrews Golf St Andrews Links trust operates 7 magnificent courses in the town. There are 4 championship courses and 3 courses, which are a great introduction to the Links game. As well as this we have the stunning Kingsbarns Links only 5 minutes from town. Kingsbarns has some of the best view in golf and is where we play our Ryder Cup style match against our Scottish juniors. Over the course of the 7 days you will unlimited access to the courses operated by The Links Trust (Excluding The Old)

6 Testimonials On behalf of The San Diego Jnr Golf association we cannot thank you enough for an amazing first visit to "The Home of Golf" Your efforts made our experience better than we could have imagined. We can't wait to return next summer. Chris Spence, Assistant Executive director, San Diego Jnr Golf Association I am more than happy I came on this camp. It was a pleasure getting to play these legendary courses in St Andrews and receive lessons on Links golf from your instructors. See you next year! Ryan This camp has been awesome thanks to you and the guys. I am not sure what we would have done without you. Loved learning to play Links golf and all the great courses in St Andrews. Kingsbarns was awesome and the match was great fun. See you next year. Taylor I am taking home so many memories with me from this amazing trip. Loved all the golf and St Andrews. Thanks for all your help you re the bomb! Tyler