Aid for UK Junior Golf Academy
A UK junior golf academy founded in memory of a talented golfer killed by a drunk driver has received an £18,000 cash boost from the fund set-up under the umbrella of the PGAs of Europe to help grass roots schemes across the continent.
The Kevin Duggan Junior Golf Academy at Luton’s Stockwood Park Golf Centre, which provides free coaching for disadvantaged children, will use the money to fund a PGA-trained golf community and development officer and usher in a new generation of youngsters including disabled players.
In a special presentation, former Home Secretary David Blunkett, PGA chief executive Sandy Jones, TV star Kevin Whatley and Luton MP Margaret Moran handed over the first instalment of the money to accompany a £70,000 grant from Sport England.
The cash injection safeguards the academy’s future and marks a welcome relief for Dunstable pub landlord Declan Duggan who has been the moving force behind the academy which he founded in 2002 as a lasting memorial to his son Kevin who died in 1998.
