A new golf and putting range has opened in Glasgow as Golf It laucnhes in the north side of the city.
Aimed at families, the new driving range caters to all skill levels, ages and abilities.
Aimed at families, the new driving range caters to all skill levels, ages and abilities.
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00:00 So we've created Golf It to be able to break down the barriers and challenge the misperceptions
00:08 around the sport of golf. Essentially what we're trying to do and what we're looking
00:14 to achieve with Golf It Glasgow is to create a family environment, a destination where
00:19 people can be themselves, where they've got freedom to play and we've created lots of
00:24 different golfing activities. First of all we've listened to the people of Glasgow and
00:32 understood exactly what they would like in terms of a family destination with golf running
00:37 right through the heart of it. And I hope what we've created is something that they're
00:43 going to be proud of. You were just saying there golf had lost its way a bit in terms
00:46 of bringing through the younger generation something that golf has struggled to do up
00:52 until the last couple of years. We had some of the local community schools here this afternoon
00:57 as well. Talk to me about, they obviously had the honour of hitting the opening shots
01:02 for the range opening, talk to us about why it's so important to have those community
01:07 links. Yeah so it's a key part of our strategy. When we designed the concept of Golf It is
01:14 that community needed to run right through the heart of all of our decision making and
01:19 whether that was obviously the partnerships that we've been creating, the building that
01:22 we're creating, obviously a really welcoming, vibrant place. But one of the first partnerships
01:29 that we created was with St Paul's Youth Forum who are a fantastic organisation who have
01:36 worked with thousands of children within the north east of Glasgow and literally impact
01:43 their lives really positively. So we wanted to harness that relationship and to provide
01:48 opportunities for the young people within this area. So whether that's through volunteering
01:53 and into employability and also apprenticeships and we've got a number of those programmes
01:57 that we're going to be running at Golf It. But what we started last year, so a year before
02:03 we actually opened the venue, is we started a schools programme. And over the last year
02:10 we have worked with 14 local primary schools, 4,500 school kids and delivering in curriculum
02:17 golf activities to them. And the plan over the next 5 years is to roll that all out across
02:21 Glasgow delivering golf activities to 42,500 school children. And then the pathway is then
02:28 to pull them back into Golf It for them to continue their golfing journey. So we're super
02:33 excited about it and that was some of the kids that we obviously had here today.