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 www.standrewsgolfcamp.com
Accommodation, Meals & Supervision For 2017 St Andrews Golf Camp is delighted to be working in partnership with leading boarding School, St Leonard's to provide accommodation in St Andrews. Their four Boarding Houses Bishopshall, Ollerenshaw, St Rule East and St Rule West - offer friendly, welcoming and safe environments in which our junior golfers will have the opportunity to stay during their time in St Andrews Each of the residences is equipped with study bedrooms, common rooms, kitchen facilities, computing facilities and games rooms. Wireless Internet access (monitored) is available, enabling our junior golfers to stay in contact with family and friends. Students receive breakfast, lunch and dinner daily utilising a mix of both St Leonard's excellent dining facilities and the diverse selection of top quality restaurants in St Andrews. When the juniors are not golfing, access to the schools swimming pool and outdoor football pitches will ensure they are kept entertained daily until lights out at 10:00pm! Supervision is provided 24/7 by our experienced staff with the safety of our juniors of paramount importance
www.standrewsgolfcamp.com marcgentles@standrewsgolfcamp.com 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
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
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)
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