PGA pros honoured by the Golf Foundation

Eight PGA Professionals have won coveted Golf Foundation awards for their work in growing the game among young people.

The Golf Foundation is a national charity that aims to help young people enjoy the benefits the game offers and make it more accessible to them.

And the efforts of eight pros to do just that resulted in them being presented with their commemorative plaques during the Foundation’s annual award ceremony on the eve of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.

Five pros – Rob Bluck, Rory Haig, John Cheetham, Iain Seath and Tom Gibbs – were party to 3 Hammers Golf Complex, Wolverhampton, winning the Critchley Award. 

They were presented with their award by PGA chief executive Sandy Jones, who has recently been appointed Golf Foundation president.

Jones also presented Cookridge Hall duo Paul O’Donnell and Jonathan Pearson with the Sinclair Award and Ross Jackson of the Ingelby Barwick Golf Academy with the Bonallack Award.

Commenting on the part PGA pros play in achieving the Foundation’s objectives, its  chief executive, Brendon Pyle, said: “They demonstrate perfectly our aim of helping young people to start, learn and stay in golf.

“For me PGA Professionals are at the heart of golf and our winners perfectly demonstrate how PGA coaches can grow the game.”