📈 Headline Impacts 2024
🏃♀️ Boosting Physical Wellbeing in Young People
In the UK, fewer than half of children are getting the recommended 60 minutes of daily activity. Even more worrying: over a quarter of children do less than 30 minutes a day. Long-term, this increases risks of poor physical and mental health, loneliness, and social disengagement.
GolfSixes League tackles this head-on. The format is simple: fast, team-based golf with no waiting around. Kids walk the course, swing, putt, laugh, and compete—all while building fundamental movement skills and confidence.
This isn’t just golf. It’s a powerful public health tool disguised as a game.
🎯 Advancing Inclusion and Diversity in Golf
One of the central focuses at the Golf Foundation is making our programmes as inclusive as possible as we seek to grow the game. Across the UK:
GolfSixes League is challenging the norm.
in 2024, GolfSixes League delivered a statement of intent: 25% of participants were girls—nearly double the UK golf average.
Girls, children from lower-income areas, and those from ethnically diverse backgrounds are traditionally underrepresented in golf. But GolfSixes has flipped the script. With its colourful flags, short format, and welcoming team feel, it lowers the barriers that often keep young people away from the sport.
🌍 Growing the Game at Every Level
Retention is the true measure of any youth sport programme – and we know that GolfSixes League delivers. An incredible 88% of participants said they wanted to keep playing after the league ended. That means thousands of potential future members, competitors, and community golfers.
At a time when many clubs worry about falling junior numbers, GolfSixes is turning the tide:
🌍 The Pathway in Action – Suffolk County
This is not a taster session. This is the start of something bigger.
When the Suffolk Golf Union (SGU) announced their 2025 under 16 squad, a clear pattern quickly emerged – half of the 14 players had started their golf journey in the Golf Foundation’s GolfSixes League programme.
The SGU has worked with the Golf Foundation to develop a ‘Pathway for Junior Golfers in Suffolk’ which starts with GolfSixes League and progresses through the new GolfNines initiative, onto three Junior Development Hubs and then to the age group squads.
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GolfSixes League impact Report 2024