Copa Airlines Valentine's HOLE-in-ONE Golf tourney starts today

Copa Airlines Valentine’s HOLE-in-ONE Golf tourney starts today

Feb 12, 2021 Sports

This Wisburg Secondary School Teacher displays some golf clubs that were donated to the school by the GGA as part of a pilot programme.

Kaieteur News – Copa Airlines is giving you a chance to fly high this Valentine’s Day with a chance to win a Roundtrip ticket to any destination they fly during their HOLE-in-ONE golf competition starting today.
All patrons will have to do is visit the Nexgen Golf Academy on Woolford Avenue (Scouts Association Ground) from 4-7 pm Friday (today)-Sunday, hit a ball into the hole in one shot and fly away to your dream trip on one of the world’s largest airlines.
Copa Airlines, The Guyana Golf Association (GGA) and Nexgen Golf Academy will also bring the Hole-in-One contest to Berbice, Linden, Essequibo and Leonora as a part of the grand promotion of the game (check their Facebook pages for locations).
Anyone can participate (there are four categories – women, children, beginners men and experienced golfers) and for the entire month of February, participants can get a free shot at winning a ticket (one try per person). The sponsors will provide everyone with access to equipment and balls to take part in the contest and even provide a lesson for anyone who wants to try.
This is the first of many activities planned by Copa Airlines and the Guyana Golf Association to bring Golf to every school and region across the country in their stated goal of making the sport, a fully covid-19 compliant activity, a household game.
With multiple innovative 3-hole courses planned for various regions, more and more exciting events will be held and GGA President Aleem Hussain feels confident that Golf will become a major sport locally.
“Guyanese youth have incredible talent and only lack facilities and opportunities to play golf, something that we are focusing on providing. The Ministry of Education has done something amazing, opened up the sport to children, a programmme now being copied by other countries!”
Hussain pointed out that it was Ms. Melissa Dow-Richardson, Assistant Director of Sports, Ministry of Culture Youth & Sports, who in 2019 highlighted the fact that golf was on the CXC/CAPE syllabus that jumpstarted the creation of a programme that was fully realised over the past few months by the Allied Arts Unit, CEO of the Secondary Schools and Minister of Education.
With teaching programmes currently underway in Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and10, and a national rollout scheduled for August, it’s only a matter of time before every Guyanese will have access to a sport that was only seen on television.