Golf
What is Golf?
The Golf Foundation's two core School Games offerings provide children and young people the chance to experience the benefits of golf. The Skills Challenge and GolfSixes Mini League are team-based, encouraging higher participation while encouraging individual growth and personal bests. These formats offer a unique alternative to traditional team sports, emphasising golf’s focus on individual skill and self-improvement. Additionally, both formats incorporate the opportunity to learn and apply Mental Toughness Tools from the Golf Foundation's Unleash Your Drive programme.
Primary Formats
Primary Schools: There are two engaging formats available:
1) The Golf Foundation 8-Game Skills Festival offers a fun, energetic way to involve a large audience with chipping and putting challenges for teams of 5 boys and 5 girls.
2). GolfSixes Mini League is a short-golf-course format where small teams (3 boys and 3 girls) represent their school in either a single event or multiple fixtures throughout the spring/summer term, played at a local club or a central school site. The course is created using adaptive Golfway equipment
Secondary Formats
Secondary Schools: GolfSixes Mini League is a short-course format where small teams (3 boys and 3 girls) represent their school in either a single event or multiple fixtures throughout the spring/summer term, played at a local club or a central school site. The course is either a ‘real’ short golf course or created using adaptive Golfway equipment.
Find out more about how to play golf formats.
Equipment needed
Primary Schools:
- For 8-Game Skills Challenge: Golfway Primary School Large Bag
- For GolfSixes Mini League Bag: GolfSixes Mini League Bag
Secondary Schools:
- For GolfSixes Mini League Bag: GolfSixes Mini League Bag
School Games formats
Learn more about the School Games formats for your chosen age group (Primary or Secondary) by selecting the appropriate document below.
The layout is similar with each document providing information in the following order for:
- SGOs (highlighted pink) to support delivery of inter-competition and advocacy of the sport to schools
- Schools (highlighted green) to support delivery of intra-competition and curricular sport
- Young people (highlighted blue) to set up and deliver the proposed format activities
Free School Games activity resources are available here.
Get involved
The School Games is inclusive to all young people and provides opportunities for everyone to get involved, either within school, against other local schools, or at county or regional level.
School Games Organisers
School Games Organisers (SGO) help schools coordinate appropriate competitive opportunities for all young people from Key Stage 2-4, to recruit, train and deploy a suitable workforce, and to support the development of club.
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Learn more about the School Games formats suitable for golf competitions: