Is The Womens Golf Club Experience, in the UK at risk?
With 1.2% of UK club golfers women between 20 and 50.
Source: Custodian Golf, July 2024,
What is the future for womens golf in the UK?
Source: England Golf March 2024
Women and girls in the UK are interested in golf.
Are UK Golf Clubs interested in Women?
As golfers, we are the custodians of golf.
As women golfers, it is our responsibility, along with our allies, to ensure the current and future golf experience is welcoming and inclusive to women of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
This is a call to action for women golfers to come together and ensure the future of womens golf is enhanced through equality, diversity and inclusivity initiatives.
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The Future Womens Club Experience:
7 days a week
Womens club, county & national comps and events during the week & weekends
Development pathways for players of all levels looking to develop their golf 7 days a week
Womens inter-club friendly and competitive team comps 7 days a week
Womens associations, golf societies and golf inititiaves to extend or support the golf experience beyond clubs to be open and welcoming 7 days a week.
Womens, individual and team Open competitions at weekends, which create opportunities for women to play in qualifying and social events within the club environment.
Identify gaps in the womens golf experience, for women 20 to 50 & weekend players of all ages & abilities, develop exisitng and create new opportunities & initiatives.
… the future womens golf experience is everything which can be imagined…
The FUTURE of womens golf is in the hands of TODAY’S women golfers
A 7 day golf experience for women, within clubs, counties, associations and societies.
Clubs can support the National Womens Golf Community through providing access to tee times for their members and visiting women and creating playing opportunities 7 days a week.
Allyship is key to co-creating the future womens golf experience which ensures women and girls of all ages, abilities and backgrounds are welcomed and included across all areas of golf.
In America the LPGA and the LPGA Amateur Association have come together to work together to grow womens golf, create regional and national playing opportunities and it is working.
“Amatuer Golf in America is booming”
New York Times, 13th August 2024 Click HERE to read
“25% of all on-course golfers are now women,”
“60% of new golfers are women.”
Jill Spiegel, president of PGA Superstore said.
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Watch the US LPGA #Inviteher intro video
Lets invite UK women too….
UK Women Golfers have the opportunity to lead change in UK GOLF.
UK Women Golfers can take action within their clubs, counties and friendship networks to create a future womens golf experience that women of all ages and abilities can enjoy and participate in.
Women and girls should be able to access the health benefits of golf.
The Health Benefits of Golf are being documented and recognised within and beyond Golf.
Women of all ages, abilities and backgrounds should have the opportunity to benefit from participating in golf.
The future womens golf experience should provide easy access to clubs, open competitive (qualifying and non-qualifying events) and social playing opportuities for women, to ensure the health benefits are available to all.
The R&A published research on the Health Benefits of Golf:
- On average, golfers live five years longer than non-golfers
- Golf can help prevent and treat 40 major chronic diseases
- Golf can help strength and balance, improve quality of life and provide aerobic exercise
- On a regular 18-hole course, most players will walk between four and five miles, burning up to 2,000 calories
- If you play golf for at least 150 minutes per week you are meeting WHO global exercise guidelines
- Spectators walk between 5-6 miles on average and burn more than 1,000 calories per day
Download the R&A Report on Golf and Health 2020 – HERE Access the R&A Golf and Health Website HERE
Research in Australia concluded that
Golfers had lower levels of psychological distress and better general health than the general population, and this relationship was strongest in individuals with OSTEOARTHRITIS.
Read the research HERE
