Three Surrey Based individuals' nominated for England Golf Awards

The annual England Golf Awards will take place on Tuesday 13th February at the Midland Manchester Hotel and will be hosted by former golfer and Sky Sports Presenter, Nick Dougherty.

• Kris Kim - member at Walton Heath Golf Club is a finalist in the category Performance of the Year sponsored by Performance 54

  • Kris won the British Boys’ Amateur Championship, the McGregor Trophy and the Fairhaven Trophy, as well as picking up a bronze medal at the European Boys’ Team Championship with England. He was also a member of Europe’s winning Junior Ryder Cup team.

• Molly Moore PGA coach from Reigate Hill Golf Club and coach to the Surrey Girls Coach is a finalist in the category Women & Girls Trailblazer sponsored by Your Golf Travel

  • Molly makes Girls Golf Excellence sessions fun and engaging, coaching mental and strategic thinking as much as technical. The small group sessions help build friendships which can allow the girls to play golf socially and competitively outside of the club. GGE has attracted a diverse range of ages and abilities of golfer and from a variety of backgrounds, which makes the club feel very independent and progressive. Molly has created a superb organisation which promotes golf to girls as a rewarding sport, both in the athletic and technical sense, as well as the social and team play sense. Through Molly’s tireless efforts, the group has gone from strength to strength. GGE is providing young women with the platform to not only develop into brilliant golfers, but to feel supported and listened to by Molly, about any issues that could be affecting or hindering their golf game and even personal lives. The girls are given their own sessions with personalised ideas and training sessions for each of them, which allows them to grow in confidence and change the stereotypes around golf clubs.

• Alex MacGregor PGA coach from Addington Court Golf Club is a finalist in the category Participation & Development Coach of the Year

  • Alex is dedicated to creating golf opportunities to everyone in the community of South London. Activities this year have included engaging with over 20 schools and community groups in delivering to hundreds of children, and hosting the Croydon Borough Primary Golf Festival for 90 children and training 16 young leaders in the process, collaborating with Deshi Golf to give young people from an Asian background their first golf experience. He has also trained staff as Activators to support and host their first on-course experiences. Alex has taken golf to the Canary Wharf Football Academy Community session, building a strong relationship with the local Muslim Centre and delivering golf to family and junior groups. Over 65 per cent of the people Alex has coached this year have been from ethnic minority backgrounds and 60 per cent have been female, which has had an extraordinary impact on the complexion of the golf club. He has developed a pathway into golf at Addington Court that is as much about creating a relaxed, social environment as it is about delivering engaging group activities. Alex delivers year-round sessions to around 100 women, 120 juniors and 40 seniors, including golfers with dementia and long covid, as well as putting on social events for golfers.

More information on all finalists can be found by clicking on the link below:

https://www.englandgolfawards.org/finalists

We wish all three finalists the very best of luck.

Kris Kim - Leaderboard Photography

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