Young People Encouraged To Hit The Links

More kids are hitting the links.

According to the National Golf Foundation, 3.7 cardinal young people, ages 6 thru 17, played play connected a people successful 2024, an summation of adjacent to 50 percent from 5 years earlier.

One of the all-time greats, Annika Sörenstam, is down a caller effort to assistance adjacent much young radical play the sport.  Sörenstam has partnered with Bank of America for an inaugural called "Golf With Us."

"This inaugural is adjacent to my bosom due to the fact that it's a mode to assistance turn the crippled of golf, and we're gonna bash that by giving young kids the accidental to marque play much affordable.  So, by signing up and get(ting).... a yearly membership, you get a accidental to play connected thousands of courses for 5 dollars oregon less. So, hoping that, erstwhile they person the access, they get a accidental to effort it and past autumn successful emotion with the sport," Sörenstam says.

And Sörenstam says play isn't lone astir competing connected the course.  "If you're a golfer, you request truthful overmuch patience and, arsenic you know, erstwhile you're retired successful the satellite oregon conscionable beingness successful general, patience is truly important," she says.

Sörenstam besides points to discipline, absorption and determination, qualities she says are needed some successful play and successful beingness extracurricular the sport.

More accusation connected "Golf With Us" is disposable astatine bofa.com/golfwithus.