Canarian Golf Federation Looks To The Future

Blessed with such great golf courses and plenty of good weather training time the Canary Islands is the ideal place to bring through new young players aspiring to join the professional ranks. Now the Canarian Golf Federation has set out a strategy to pick out the most promising players and polish them to become shine on the big stage.

Announcing their scheme in Las Palmas the federation explained that initially it would apply to the province of Gran Canaria but plans were well advanced to apply the same techniques to Tenerife very soon. Oscar Garzon an established professional player and part of the federations coaching team explained that young players were being chosen from the 11 to 25 year age range for two hour Saturday morning training schools under four technical coaches covering technique, physical and psychological training. The young golfers will be selected from the previous years rankings for Gran Canaria and Lanzarote. Lessons will take place at the Las Palmeras golf course but once a month they get to experience another course in the Gran Canaria province.

Psychological coach for the programme, Heriberto Rodríguez, has helped many professional players and will pass on his knowledge to the students. That will include how to deal with pressures caused by the players own demanding standards as well as outside pressures during the course of a game. The future of Canarian golf is in good hands and we will hopefully see a new generation of professional players emerging.

Photo. Luis García Ayuso, secretary of the FCG, Isabel Luján director of the investigation group of the ULPGC, Salvador García Cantón, presidente y Javier Garzón Allende, profesor de Golf