The grand closing of the 2024 PING Junior Masters came about at Shut Home yesterday, with over 70 junior golfers gathering to showcase their abilities on the Northumberland membership’s championship Colt Course.
In an exciting and shut contest, the winners of the six classes have been separated by simply three pictures, 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 (General Champion)
Boys U18 – Henry Murphy
Women U18 – Kayla Hill
Boys U15 – James Henderson
Women U15 – Amelia Hothersall
Women 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 worthwhile 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 dad and mom who’ve supported their youngsters of their {golfing} journeys to date.”
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 Event on the membership. I want to thank PING for his or her continued assist of the occasion which seems 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 really 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 are able to present assist while rising the outreach of junior golf. We applaud the work the crew at Shut Home does on an annual foundation to host this implausible occasion.”
Qualifiers for the occasion came about from April to September throughout eight counties, stretching from Fife to Lincolnshire, providing younger golfers a worthwhile 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 galvanizing the following era of {golfing} expertise.
