{"id":24020,"date":"2025-06-02T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=24020"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:09:32","slug":"council-is-pleased-to-launch-its-road-to-the-open-workshop-programme-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2025\/06\/council-is-pleased-to-launch-its-road-to-the-open-workshop-programme-for-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Council is pleased to launch it\u2019s \u2018Road to the Open\u2019 workshop programme for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School children in Causeway Coast and Glens are getting an opportunity to experience golf through the development of a new\u00a0<strong>\u2018Road to the Open\u2019 programme<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Council\u2019s Golf Camp workshops\u00a0have been\u00a0especially created for school children in the Borough.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24021\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-copy-6-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>With the 153<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Open Championship taking place in Portrush from 13<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July, children from local primary schools have been invited to receive golf coaching in schools from local golfing professionals and golfing coaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through Golf Ireland, coaches have been trained in the Community Golf Leader Award and now children from those schools participating will be getting an opportunity to try the sport for themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens, Councillor Ciar\u00e1n McQuillan,<\/strong>\u00a0who recently hosted a charity golf day in Portstewart Golf Club said: \u201cCouncil is delighted to offer this programme to local primary schools, and we hope the young people who participate really enjoy this in the lead up to the Open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m sure we will see stars of the future at the pro-golfers pass on tips for starting out in the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the programme for schools, there will also be a number of \u2018Mini Open\u2019 Golf events taking place in the following locations:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Roe Park Golf Club in Limavady 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0May<\/li>\n<li>Bushfoot Golf Club in Portballintrae 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June<\/li>\n<li>Ballyreagh Golf Course in Portrush 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These events will provide an insight into how it feels to play a golf course in the form of a competition similar to The Open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Councillor Mc Quillan added<\/strong>: \u201cCouncil\u2019s Sports and Wellbeing Team have delivered a fantastic programme to local school children in the lead to The Open this summer and who knows we may unearth the next Rory McIlroy on the North Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Road to The Open&#8221; project is a collaboration between the R&amp;A, Golf Ireland and The Golf Foundation. From 13th\u00a0\u2013 20th July, The Open will be played at Royal Portrush Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more\u00a0information on these events contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sportsdevelopment@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk\">sportsdevelopment@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School children in Causeway Coast and Glens are getting an opportunity to experience golf through the development of a new\u00a0\u2018Road to the Open\u2019 programme. Council\u2019s Golf Camp workshops\u00a0have been\u00a0especially created for school children in the Borough. With the 153rd\u00a0Open Championship taking place in Portrush from 13th\u00a0\u2013 20th\u00a0July, children from local primary schools have been invited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2025\/06\/council-is-pleased-to-launch-its-road-to-the-open-workshop-programme-for-schools\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24022,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions\/24022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}