The grand closing of the 2024 PING Junior Masters befell at Shut Home yesterday, with over 70 junior golfers gathering to showcase their expertise on the Northumberland membership’s championship Colt Course.
In an exhilarating and shut contest, the winners of the six classes have been separated by simply three photographs, with 10-year-old Havish Aravind from Brampton Golf Membership in Cumbria being topped as the general champion with a Stableford rating of 39 factors.
Age group winners:
Boys U12 – Havish Aravind (Total Champion)
Boys U18 – Henry Murphy
Ladies U18 – Kayla Hill
Boys U15 – James Henderson
Ladies U15 – Amelia Hothersall
Ladies U12 – Lily Jane Morgan
Ryder Cup legend for former world No.1 Lee Westwood, Shut Home’s affiliated skilled, was instrumental within the early growth of the Junior Masters, and he was readily available to current the prizes to every class winner, in addition to internet hosting a post-competition Q&A session, the place the juniors have been supplied with invaluable insights from his illustrious profession.
“It’s nice to see so many junior golfers competing,” commented Westwood. “I’m thrilled to be concerned with the collection and it’s nice to see the way it has grown over the previous seven years. Due to Shut Home, PING, and, in fact the mother and father who’ve supported their kids of their {golfing} journeys thus far.”
Jonathan Lupton, managing director at Shut Home, added: “We’re extraordinarily proud to proceed this legacy occasion which began once we hosted the 2017 British Masters Golf Match on the membership. I want to thank PING for his or her continued assist of the occasion which seems to be to have interaction extra juniors within the sport we love.”
This 12 months’s occasion as soon as once more noticed PING present all of the prizes on the grand closing, serving to to make it a very memorable expertise for the juniors concerned.
Dave Fanning, PING European Advertising and marketing Director, commented: “We’re delighted to assist the PING Junior Masters and happy we will present assist while growing the outreach of junior golf. We applaud the work the group at Shut Home does on an annual foundation to host this implausible occasion.”
Qualifiers for the occasion befell from April to September throughout eight counties, stretching from Fife to Lincolnshire, providing younger golfers a invaluable style of aggressive golf. As a part of the initiative, Shut Home additionally gives free teaching to over 1,200 schoolchildren, devoted to discovering and provoking the following era of {golfing} expertise.
