Famous names raise junior golfýs profile at St Andrews - 4,000 children have a go at golf. Their diaries might be booked solid but people with backgrounds as diverse as those of HRH The Duke of York, Brad Faxon and DJ Spoony were willing to make time for junior golf. Not a celebrity fee was paid but a procession of big names came to support the Golf Foundation and its work with juniors at The Open at St Andrews, and the Foundation now hopes an increasing number of people will support the work of this junior golf charity that is committed to bringing golf to more young people and making the sport more accessible for all.

Andy Sullivan put aside the dissappointment of finishing poorly in the Carris Trophy to take his place alongside four times winner Steve Webster and three time holder Paul Broadhurst to take the Warwickshire Boys and the U-21's Trophies at Sutton Coldfield GC on Monday 25th July. The win was all due to a course record 65 in the morning.

Darren Clarke has secured an invitation for one of his Golf Foundation graduates to play in The Daily Telegraph Dunlop Masters. Rory McIlroy, one of the most exciting prospects in Irish amateur golf, will tee up against the professional elite of Europe at the Marriott Forest of Arden between May 12-15.

Two of the best-known names in golf, Sir Michael Bonallack OBE and Bernard Gallacher OBE, are encouraging golf clubs to respond to the Golf Foundation's Annual Appeal for 2005, which is being supported by Club Car. Through the recently launched appeal, golf clubs are being asked for a range of donations to help fund the Golf Foundation's development work in schools, golf facilities and through local authorities all over Britain. All money raised is hugely beneficial for junior golf and gives many more youngsters a chance to experience the sport and its values.

Three English golfers are just back from Texas – and a masterclass with some of the world’s top coaches. Teenagers Felicity Johnson and Sian James, together with professional Sarah Claridge, spent a week with Dick, Craig and Bill Harmon, brothers of World No 1 Coach, Butch Harmon.

At the Warwickshire Professional 4Ball Championship, held at Coventry Hearsall on Monday 27th September, there were two Junior pairings and they produced some excellent golf. Hearsall has held this championship 16 times and the course is set up as difficult as is possible, so anything under par is good golf.

The 2004 Warwickshire Juniors Team, which to Brian Fish, Chairman of Junior Golf are Brian thinks ‘The best squad of Juniors in the Midlands’, continued their unbeaten run of team matches that stretches back into 2002, when the likes of Chris Evans was playing, with a, 8.5-5.5 win over Derbyshire at Burton-on Trent Golf Club on Sunday 11th September.