Golf Canada Promoting Women's Golf,
by Nikki Sasso

Golf Canada is taking some progressive steps to help grow women's golf in Canada.

Golf Canada offers the CN Future Links program which benefits junior girls' golf. The program is not only for experienced golfers, but first-time golfers as well. Young golfers have a variety of programs from which to choose. The Learn to Play is a 7-level development program that allows young golfers to learn and play, while having fun with the games as they make their way up the levels. New golfers can view their digital progress report online and communicate with their golf instructors.

The Junior Skills Challenge allows young golfers to track their personal progress with "skills challenges" throughout the season. Online, they will be able to keep track of their personal score card. The Junior Golf League is an organized league for young golfers. These participants will be able to communicate with their instructors as well as their fellow peers online. The Golf Buddy Event allows young golfers to show their parents and golf mentors what they have learned. The Girls' Club is a club designed for girls aged 7-18 years old. They can interact with girls with the same interests as well as develop the necessary skills needed to be successful in golf. The Mobile Clinic comes to any location to teach young golfers the game. And the CN Future Links Championships are a series of six regional junior golf championships. Finally, the CN Future Links Membership allows access to online and interactive benefits, as well as contests and prizes.

Golf Canada is a member-based organization governed by the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA). Golf Canada is responsible for promoting participation of golf in Canada, as well as sharing a passion for the sport. Golf Canada actively conducts championships, programs and services to help shape the present and future of golf in Canada. Canada's National Amateur Golf Team program, National Golf in Schools, Golf Fore the Cure, the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum and CN Future Links, Canada's national junior golf program, are only some of the initiatives the association leads for golf in Canada.

As the authority for the game of golf in Canada, the association also administers the Rules of Golf and Amateur Status as well as Handicapping and Course Rating under the esteemed RCGA brand. In addition, Golf Canada conducts Canada's most prestigious golf championships. The RBC Canadian Open and CN Canadian Women's Open attract the best professional golfers in the world, while regional junior and national amateur championships provide world-class competitive opportunities for Canada's top golfers to showcase their talents.

For more information about what Golf Canada is doing to support golf in your community, visit us online at www.golfcanada.ca.

One of the world's premier developmental tours, the CN Canadian Women's Tour continues to attract rising Canadian and international female golf professionals as well as top female amateurs.  Many of Canada's top professionals including Lorie Kane and Alena Sharp as well as 2010 LPGA Tour member Lisa Meldrum and Samantha Richdale have competed on the CN Canadian Women's Tour as a springboard to future success. The 2011 season promises to be an exciting one. For more information, visit www.cncanadianwomenstour.ca.

  With these initiatives in place, girls interested in golf can easily find the help they need to be successful. With major women players being put into the spotlight, the sport will be able to grow and more girls will want to pick up a golf club and get out there.

Nikki Sasso is a member of the Class of 2011, Corporate Communication and Public Relations post-graduate program at Fanshawe College of Applied Arts & Technology in London, Ontario.

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