Junior Editor

Coaching for our Junior Reds and Whites will commence this Saturday at 1pm in the Driving Range. Please note the times – Reds at 1pm followed by two Whites sessions at 2pm and 3pm. Parents roster also attached.

Junior Driving Range Coaching – Spring 2023

Please note there will be no Blues coaching this Saturday – we will be in touch with all Group’s next week regarding coaching for Saturday, 18 February.

For the Reds, it is just sign-in which needs to be managed, however please note the following for the two Whites sessions:

We need to have one parent in the shop at the Driving Range when the boys and girls arrive. This parent needs to check the child is on the roster for that day/session, help to get the money paid and the child out of the shop and down to the bays at the end of the range. The same parent gets all of the children back into the shop and signs them out as they are collected at the end of the session. We need to ask the parents to come in with the child at the start and to come into the shop to collect them at the end of the session. We have to be mindful that the Driving Range is not part of GGC is and is a private business running as a standalone commercial business, so we cannot allow the boys and girls to leave the Driving Range unaccompanied under any circumstances.

The other 3 parents are required at the bays with each monitoring two/three bays. Essentially they just need to ensure:

• the children are not running up and down between bays and running off down to the shop;
• when a child is hitting a shot the other child stands out of the bay;
• the children do not leave the front of the bay to retrieve a ball on the gravel/grass in the front of the bay;
• if a child needs the bathroom the “signing in” parent goes with them and waits in the shop. We just need to ensure the child comes back into the range; and
• at the end of the session all the children are brought back into the shop and wait to be collected.

Starting on Saturday, February 11^th 2023 for four weeks until Saturday, 4^th March 2023, Davie Lewis and his assistants are continuing with our Winter / Spring coaching programme for all juniors.

These four sessions will again be held at Greystones Driving Range and we intend to revert to Saturday coaching sessions in Greystones Golf Club from 11^th March 2023 for a further four weeks in advance of the return of junior competitions in early April (more to follow on this over the coming weeks).

The Greystones Driving Range coaching will run from 1pm-4pm for the following groups:

1pm – 2pm will be for the Blue group (for handicaps above 9)

2pm – 3pm will be for the Red group

3pm – 4pm will be for the White group (see below also) *

Each session will be limited to a maximum of 12-14 juniors.

It is important that if you commit to a session your child turns up, otherwise you will be preventing someone else from availing of the lesson.

The Winter sessions held before Christmas proved very popular and given the level of organization required to ensure each boy and girl gets as much coaching as possible, it is essential that you confirm your son or daughter’s attendance by no later than next Monday, 6^th February 2023. We will not be accepting late attendance requests after this date. Please PM or email Patrice Dowling (087 2433726 – patrice@compshelp.com) or Declan Murray (083 4663335 – declanmurray2008@gmail.com) to confirm your son or daughter’s attendance. A coaching roster will be published by Tuesday, 7^th February 2023 on the Junior Section of the website.

*Whites Coaching

Given the numbers attending we expect to attend Whites coaching, the age profile of the boys and girls participating, it is essential that we prioritise the safety of each child attending. This relates to both drop-off and pick-up in addition to within the bays during the lessons. With this in mind, we require 4 parents of those children attending the coaching to volunteer to stay for the full hour.

Volunteer Roster Responsibilities:

We need to have one parent in the shop at the Driving Range when the boys and girls arrive. This parent needs to check the child is on the roster for that day, help to get the money paid and the child out of the shop and down to the bays at the end of the range. The same parent gets all of the children back into the shop and signs them out as they are collected at the end of the session. We need to ask the parents to come in with the child at the start and to come into the shop to collect them at the end of the session. We have to be mindful that the Driving Range is not part of GGC is and is a private business running as a standalone commercial business, so we cannot allow the boys and girls to leave the Driving Range unaccompanied under any circumstances.

The other 3 parents are required at the bays with each monitoring two bays. Essentially they just need to ensure:

• the children are not running up and down between bays and running off down to the shop;
• when a child is hitting a shot the other child stands out of the bay;
• the children do not leave the front of the bay to retrieve a ball on the gravel/grass in the front of the bay;
• if a child needs the bathroom the “signing in” parent goes with them and waits in the shop. We just need to ensure the child comes back into the range; and
• at the end of the session all the children are brought back into the shop and wait to be collected.

Payment for Lessons

The lessons are free of charge and are being paid for by Greystones Golf Club Junior Committee. Each junior will be required to pay for their own balls and the club will pay for the cost of the Professional.

Karl Holmes has again very generously offered our juniors a massive discount of 50% on a large bucket of balls, charging them only €7, for the final term of Driving Range coaching.

Attendance will be monitored and managed as best as possible.

Junior Driving Range Coaching – Winter 2022 (Final Version)

Please see amended coaching roster, including parent supervision, for the remaining three Saturdays of our pre-Christmas junior golf coaching at the Driving Range with Davie, Ben and Harry below.

Kind regards,

The Junior Committee

From this Saturday, 5 November, 2022, and ending in March 2023, Davie Lewis and his assistants will start their three-hour winter coaching programme for the Junior boys and girls. The first block of sessions will run until 3 December 2022.

This will be every Saturday from 1pm – 4pm at the Driving Range with the following group times:

Blues: 1pm – 2pm

Reds: 2pm – 3pm

Whites: 3pm – 4pm

The roster below has been drawn-up to cover the period until 3 December. A new roster will be arranged when we return in early February 2023. Following very strong interest from our Junior members, it will not be possible for everybody to attend every week. Having registered your son or daughter to this GGC subsidised coaching, which Davie and his team are fully committed to, it is important that your child turns up at the designated time and on the correct dates. As parents, this is your responsibility so please diarise all of your son or daughter’s lesson times and dates.

Each junior will be required to pay for their own balls and GGC will pay for the cost of Davie and his team. Karl Holmes has very generously offered our juniors a massive discount of 50% on a large bucket of balls, charging them only €7, for this terms Driving Range coaching.

Please arrive 10 minutes before each lesson and ensure you are ready to start on time with your bucket of balls.

The Junior Committee

Junior Driving Range Coaching Schedule – Winter 2022_