OUR IMPACT
“Golf is more than just about the sport…”
Ronan, aged 12
Junior Captain at Bristol & Clifton GC
2025 Headlines
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“The kids were kinder to each other, and more ready to learn”
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“It got my child off screens and onto the course”
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”The youngsters are being better prepared for life!”
Hear the story of Stand Golf Club and their Community Golf Instructor Becky, who started the junior section in 2023 and has a thriving group of enthusiastic youngsters playing GolfSixes League and more..
We caught up with the two captains at the Royal Automobile Club, who nominated the Golf Foundation to be their joint Captains’ Charity, and raised an amazing amount to support our work
Thanks to all!
Head to our Captains Charity page to find out how you can get involved
We travelled to Kenwick Park, where a girls only GolfSixes League is seeing success in Lincolnshire
Head to our GolfSixes League page to find out more about our programme, and how you can get involved
We launched Unleash Your Drive in Clubs in 2025 as a pilot initiative aimed at getting more youngsters from schools and into golf clubs.
Thanks to the support of the BGIA, we offered equipment and training to 50 projects in 2025, and after a successful year, we are growing the impact for future years.
We visited Upton St Leonards to see the programme in action…
Our first ever Unleash Your Drive Final winners played their way to the BMW PGA Championship Pro-Am in 2024, and played alongside Harry Hall for a day to remember at Wentworth.
Our first Unleash Your Drive fundraising event was launched in September 2023 at Wentworth, and culminated one year later on the same course. Our winners Jamie, Josh and Jess all qualified for the Unleash Your Drive final thanks to various fundraising journeys over they year - Jess won a monthly draw, Josh qualified through our Play In May leaderboard, and Jamie won the Play In May second chance draw. The trio then came top three in our Unleash Your Drive Final at Wentworth, and won a spot in the Pro-Am.
Thanks to DP World Tour, Wentworth Club and BMW for their help around the final and the memorable event - and to HowDidIDo and Golf Holidays Direct for their backing.
Thanks also to our sponsors at GolfNow for their support in delivering golf and mental wellbeing support to schools across GB & I.
We visited one of our Unleash Your Drive Schools to see a Golf Festival teaching our Mental Toughness Tools and witnessing them in action!
We visited one of the schools delivering our Unleash Your Drive in Schools programme and making a difference to young people's mental wellbeing
Hear from the teacher and pupils who are seeing the impact on mental wellbeing in their school, as the golf games make a mark in Thornton Heath
Nick Dougherty gives an overview of our week at Wentworth - with activations in the village, a team in the Pro-Am and our President’s Awards all part of an incredible week…
After another brilliant year for junior golf, we were delighted to be back at Wentworth Club to celebrate the great and good of grassroots golf in 2024.
Our President Nick Dougherty took to the stage and introduced five worthy winners to receive their special awards and be celebrated by the 100 strong crowd.
AWARDS
Sir Henry Cotton Lifetime Achievement - Mark Johnson
Unleash Your Drive School of the Year - St James the Great
Community Project of the Year - Bring It On Brum
Dinah Oxley Spirit of Golf Award - George Hughes
Junior Club of the Year - Royal Dornoch GC
Over 300 primary school children from the North East region enjoyed a Golfway Festival at Temple Park Leisure Centre, Tyneside.
The first event of its kind in the new academic year, the inclusive golf festival saw 32 schools attend, with children of all abilities able to partake, have fun and be physically active.
The usability and safe nature of the Golfway Play equipment enabled numerous disabled young people to play golf for the first time.
Ian Harvey from the Golf Foundation said: "The Golfway Skills Festival is a fantastic opportunity to introduce children from all across Tyne and Wear to golf. Uptake from local schools has been unbelievable, we have around 300 pupils with special educational needs experiencing golf in a fun and inclusive way.”
We teamed up with Golfway to deliver a teacher training programme at Chippenham Golf Club.
This was all aimed at helping the teachers learn how to deliver our schools programme, and embed the mental toughness within the fun games.
Our training is now available online, as teachers can go through the programme themselves. Learn more in our schools section.
We partnered with Golfway and Sport Birmingham to host a Secondary Schools Golfway Festival at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. This event aimed to introduce local students to golf in a fun, accessible, and high-energy environment. The initiative is part of the School Games framework to promote youth participation.


We were back at Wentworth Club again in 2025, celebrating the best of schools, golf clubs and individual impacts with our President’s Awards