截止至2008年5月，通过10万英镑的资助基金，中国已经有7万个孩子认识了高尔夫这项运动，有超过1200名孩子参与到2008年的7场官方赛事和两个暑期夏令营中。
这是为中国支付这10万英镑的英国皇家古老高尔夫俱乐部（R&A）官方网站公布的，估计现在快一年了，参与的人数就更多了，现贴出全文如下：
原文链接：http://www.randa.org/index.cfm?cfid=18871356&cftoken=12745089&CSid=30&action=golfDev.casestudy.CSDetail
The
R&A helps bring golf to 70,000 in
China
The R&A has thrown its full support behind China’s
only officially sanctioned junior golf development scheme, the HSBC
China Junior Golf Programme, bringing its expertise and
£100,000 of funding
to help extend golf’s reach in China.
The programme was launched last May, and in
its first year attracted over 1,200 junior golfers
to attend its seven tournaments and two summer camps. This
year, however, the scope of the programme will expand massively,
with the game being brought into 40 schools in the cities of
Beijing, Hefei and Yunnan. By the end of 2008
the programme will also enter schools in Shanghai, with a total of
over 70,000 boys and girls being introduced to
golf this year.
The sheer number of children being reached is one of the key things
that attracted The R&A's support. "Helping develop
the game of golf in China is one of our key priorities," said
Duncan Weir, Director of Golf Development for The
R&A. "We're delighted to be a partner in a
programme such as this. It's something that will help us reach tens
of thousands of potential new golfers, many of whom might not
otherwise get the chance to try the game."
Programme content is varied: in schools, children will receive a
basic introduction to the game and the chance to try it out within
PE lessons, but for those that wish to take it further, or those
who already have, the programme also incorporates a series of
tournaments held across China. These include the 54-hole HSBC China
Junior Open and the HSBC National Junior Golf Championship, a
tournament consisting of six regional qualifiers followed by a
national final.
http://www.randa.org/gallery/images/Shanghai2008%20006.jpgThere is also a national ranking system for
junior golfers – which, like the programme itself, is run
day-to-day by the CGA and IMG – that helps to track players'
performance throughout the year, and summer camps at which players
will receive intensive coaching for up to 11 hours a day on
everything from chipping and putting to course strategy and the
Rules of Golf. Many of the promising players will, in addition, be
invited to a winter training camp where they will undergo an
intensive three-week training programme covering both physical and
mental aspects of the game.
“It’s been a passion of mine to do something in grassroots golf,”
said John Cappo, Managing Director of IMG China Golf and the man
who initiated the programme concept, in conjunction with the CGA
and HSBC. “IMG do so much in professional golf it’s great to give
something back, and with the blessing and backing of The
R&A we can really take the programme to the next
level.”
Title sponsor HSBC is upbeat about the programme’s prospects. "What
we have set out to do is create a structure on which all future
development can be based," said Giles Morgan, Global Head of
Sponsorship.
"This structure promotes the growth of the game: it makes it more
accessible and helps generate more and more golfers. But it also
provides the foundation on which China can grow and develop its
champions of the future."" |
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