From the preliminary drive-chip-and putt occasions, the Philippine Golf Tour (PGT) goes all out in supporting junior golf by penciling 10 legs for the Junior PGT beginning this summer season over among the nation’s best championship layouts.
PGT common supervisor Colo Ventosa made the announcement on Wednesday as her group that’s being financed by golf patron Ricky Razon will proceed to function a nonprofit circuit to assist the grassroots improvement of golf within the land.
And they are going to be doing it with out going head-on in opposition to different junior golf organizations whereas inviting members of the opposite teams to come back and play their occasions.
“All people is invited to play (within the JPGT),” stated Ventosa. “If they’ve a match, we’ll make certain we don’t maintain an occasion at the moment, as a result of the extra tournaments, the higher it’s for the gamers.”
Expertise turnover
Ventosa stated that a part of the explanation for going all-out with the JPGT is to make sure that turnover of expertise to the skilled males’s and girls circuits that ICTSI additionally bankrolls.
“We’re doing this in order that we are able to additionally assist the Philippine Golf Tour and the Women PGT develop,” stated Ventosa. “We wish to enhance the game within the nation and we additionally wish to develop the younger gamers to be the subsequent skilled golfers to symbolize the nation overseas, like Bianca (Pagdanganan), Dottie (Ardina) and Princess (Superal).”
The ultimate leg of the sequence shall be held on the ultra-exclusive The Nation Membership format someday in September.
Whereas the JPGT acknowledges that it can not ship PH representatives to worldwide meets, Ventosa stated that “we’ve got pals in Malaysia, Thailand, and so on. who can accommodate the brilliant performers of our circuit to play their occasions.”
Funding these youngsters to play in abroad tournaments can also be one of many targets of the JPGT.
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