Sturminster Marshall Golf Club have run the Girls Golf Rocks programme every year since 2016. Following their introduction through Girls Golf Rocks sessions, the club sees a high retention rate for girls aged 5-18 moving straight into the Mike Dodd Golf Academy. This follows a similar coaching system and keeps the girls on a continued pathway into golf.
By building strong relationships with local schools, head Pro Mike Dodd has set up an emailing system to reach the parents of around 6,000 juniors, encouraging them to give golf a go.
Alongside his work as the Dorset County girls coach, this means he follows the pathway right through from beginner to county level. He has helped players such as Georgia Hall progress in the game and continues to inspire young people of all abilities to get involved.
Girls gol Rock when I did girls golf rocks it like opened my eyes and found out that I loved it so I’ve just carried on and become a member and done all these brilliant competitions it just really helped me to actually get into golf and
I just love it and I travel all over the country playing in tournaments um and there’s nothing else I’d want to do it’s great girls golf rocks has been amazing at one time there was three or four ladies playing here now there’s over 30 ladies playing here there are loads of
Girls out there looking for something to do in sport what we do with the girls golf Rock sessions is that we sort of create games we create sessions which are similar to the academy and it’s very similar again for the county level so dword has gone from strength to strength
Cuz we keep filtering all these girls at the base we’ve done very well we’ve won Alford cup the Southwest inter counties and the wessix without gills golf rocks we wouldn’t be where we are and the thing with the Juniors is they come with parents the golf pro will have more
Lessons the food and drink in the clubhouse will go up the Double Down membership since we were doing girls golf rocks it’s just really is a win-win as a parent first turning up I was quite nervous coming into a golf club but when you actually get here and the coaches
Welcome you in and from that I’ve got involved as a member of golf club and I’ve ended up actually on the committee as a family it’s great we all can go out together as a four and it’s a really nice activity to do all together there’s
Not many sports that you can do that you mix with other girls make new friends improve social skills and confidence and when you do well you like boost each other forward it’s a very easy job to get girls into golf we hook into the local schools we explain what we’re
Trying to achieve with Sport and girls and offer golf as a sport to the school with that relationship now we have things like parent mail so we’re able to send stuff out 6,000 children as long as you’ve got a little bit of a practice area you got a couple of keen people in
A team it’s very very simple it’s just a matter of doing it really we’ll provide you with all your marketing collateral access to an online booking platform and you’ll even get your own bisbo booking page as well and best of all there’s no cost to being involved in the program
Without these young girls coming along golf clubs will not survive they just want to play golf and enjoy themselves trying it cuz you never know you might love her
