Golf Training Summer Camp 2019 concludes successfully
A total of 76 eager golf learners of the city were trained in this month-long Golf Training Summer Camp 2019 which was held at Pakistan Air Force Skyview Golf Club in Lahore.
An initiative launched by the club management of Pakistan Air Force Skyview Golf Club and backed by school principals, featured a total of 100 applicants and after an initial test, 76 eager golfers were selected to undergo training as part of a coaching program that was spread over a month.
These selected learners we trained under several professional and successful golfers of Pakistan such as: Akash Bashir, Shaukat Ali, Jaffer Masih, Ashir, Robin, Hamza Nabi, Jaffer Masih, Amjad Ali and the legendary golf professional of Pakistan Ghulam Nabi, who has won the national title of Pakistan in the decade of eighties and nineties several times.
This much purposeful golf training camp featured youth players between the ages six years to sixteen years who were taught and trained with basics and fundamentals of the game and among many of them, this camp inspired 27 girls to earn an appetite for this sport.
Air Commodore (R) Tariq Usman, Director of the Program, shared that this training camp will be followed by a second phase where, based on the performance of the kids, six talented ones have been short listed for extensive training and been graded as wards of the club and it will be ensured that they are groomed into golfers of excellence with full support from the club management.
These selected ones include two girls and four boys who namely are: Khushbakht Ayesha, Khushbakht Shireen, Syed Shahab Ud Din, Arsalan Khan, Faizan Hussain and Aqsam Qureshi.
Air Vice Marshal, Tariq Zia was the honorable chief guest who at the concluding ceremony, gave away certificates to the participants, in the presence of Brig (R) Shahid Wahab Rao, Secretary Punjab Golf Associaton, Dr Asma Shami, Chairperson Ladies Golf, National Golf players, Rimsha Ijaz, Parkha Ijaz, Damil Ataullah and over a hundred passionate parents.
