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STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
I LIVE TO TEACH approximately 70 juniors. St. Andrews Golf Club
has generously offered all the surrounding schools
a chance to learn the game of golf at no cost to
the schools. At present, we have about 93 students
from one school learning the game.
By Anthony Benny, Christopher Richards and Ricky Campbell
USGTF Master Teaching together have about 120 junior golfers in training.
Professional, Trinidad &
Tobago So, with that in mind, there is a monthly event at St.
Andrews where by all juniors are invited to partake.
There are 18-hole, 9-hole, 6-hole, 3-hole, and Drive,
very day I leave my home and head off to my
Eplace of work, St. Andrews Golf Club, to teach Chip and Putt competitions. All juniors are given a
or play a game with my friends. On our beautiful medal, and the first three earn trophies.
twin islands of Trinidad & Tobago, there are eight St. Andrews Golf Club is the only golf club
golf courses: five 18-hole courses and three nine- that offers free golf. In providing instruction to
hole courses. The total playing membership is the youths of Trinidad, our aim is not only golf, but
about 1,200 adults and 50 juniors. developing our youths as they are the future of
At St. Andrews, I do three days of junior golf our country. They are at present 20 percent of our
(Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) from 4 p.m. today and 100 percent of our tomorrow.
to 6 p.m. The attendance for the three days is
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