{"id":448899,"date":"2026-02-02T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448899\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:36:08","slug":"the-ra-brings-community-golf-instructor-award-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448899\/","title":{"rendered":"The R&#038;A brings Community Golf Instructor Award to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project also includes a dedicated \u201ctrain the trainers\u201d element aimed at ensuring the programme\u2019s sustainability. In Nairobi, seven individuals took part in a specialised mentoring session, where they were trained to deliver the Community Golf Instructor Award themselves in the future. This approach allows the programme to be rolled out more widely, both within the three participating countries and across other federations on the African continent.<br \/>\nThe training programme ensures there is a dedicated new workforce to support community golf development, with Community Golf Instructors able to be paid for their work across defined programmes and initiatives, including school delivery.<br \/>\nKevin Barker, Director &#8211; Golf Development for GB&amp;I and Africa at The R&amp;A, said: \u201cThis programme represents an important step in supporting the long-term growth of golf across Africa. By investing in people at a community level, we are helping to create sustainable pathways into the sport and ensuring that more young people, women and communities have the opportunity to experience golf in a fun, accessible and inclusive way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The project also includes a dedicated \u201ctrain the trainers\u201d element aimed at ensuring the programme\u2019s sustainability. In Nairobi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-448899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}