{"id":790,"date":"2023-02-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/?p=790"},"modified":"2023-11-10T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:02:58","slug":"womens-golf-mentoring-program-a-hit-at-the-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/2023\/02\/womens-golf-mentoring-program-a-hit-at-the-vines\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s golf mentoring program a hit at The Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"is-visible\"><strong>The Vines Resort and Country Club\u2019s women-only \u2018Gotta Get Golfing\u2019 program continues to go from strength to strength, with more than 70 participants over the past 12 months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"is-visible\">Launched in 2017, \u2018Gotta Get Golfing\u2019 aims to provide pathways into golf for beginners, as well as encourage social golfers to take up club membership. The six-week program incorporates social activities alongside personalised instruction on the range and on course, delivered by PGA pro Mark Tibbles and GolfWA Community Instructor Anna-Maria England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-visible\">Since 2018, the WA Golf Foundation-backed program has also included post-session mentoring classes in which participants are introduced to a range of golf-related topics \u2013 including rules, etiquette, scoring and general golf knowledge \u2013 in a friendly, informal environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-visible\">Of the 71 women involved in the 2022 program, 47 were complete beginners with 24 retained from the previous program. Eighteen participants took up full membership at The Vines over the course of the year taking the total number of new members gained through the program since 2017 to 93.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-visible\">Mark Tibbles, who heads the Vines\u2019 MTI Golf Academy, says \u2018Gotta Get Golfing\u2019 has been a major boost to female participation at the club. \u201cBefore 2017, the weekly ladies\u2019 competition was really struggling. We might have had between 4-8 players involved and on one rainy day, only one lady showed up,\u201d he told GolfWA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-visible\">\u201cNow we are getting 50+ participating in our weekly competition and 70-80 in our special events, such as our International Women\u2019s Golf Day competition in June and a breast cancer fundraiser in October. Of those, as many as 50 players might have come through the \u2018Gotta get Golfing\u2019 program. It\u2019s been a great success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-791 \" src=\"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Female-golfer-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"WA Golf Foundation\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Female-golfer-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Female-golfer-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Female-golfer-1024x683-1-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Female-golfer-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vines Resort and Country Club\u2019s women-only \u2018Gotta Get Golfing\u2019 program continues to go from strength to strength, with more than 70 participants over the past 12 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/2023\/02\/womens-golf-mentoring-program-a-hit-at-the-vines\/\" class=\"read_more_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wagf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagf.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}