THE FIFTH annual Super-Clubs Breezes Runaway Bay junior golf summer camp got under way July 14, and will see over 200 St. Ann area schools students being taught to play golf, before it ends five weeks' time, on August 22.
The camp is once again being held on the 18-hole championship SuperClubs Runaway Bay course, and general manager, Maureen Aarons, says an initial group of 47 children started on the first day. Other groups, ranging in ages between eight and 16, will join in on a weekly basis separated by gender, and divided into three categories of under 16, under 12 and under 10 years old.
The participants are being tutored by a group of local and international golf pros, including British certified golf pro, Ian Melville, and Canadian golf consultant, Grant Fraser. The club's junior team will be chosen from among the winners, at the closing prize-giving ceremony August 22.
NATIONAL PROMINENCE
Aarons started the programme in 1999 and has steered it to national prominence. Many members of Jamaica's national junior golf squad hail from the SuperClubs Breezes Runaway Bay junior golf summer camp, and Aarons says she frequently receives many islandwide requests, to participate.
This year's camp is receiving major corporate input, from such blue ribbon firms as Best Dressed Chicken, J.F. Mills, Lasco, and Big Jo Juices.
