CROWN Golf and its Hampshire golfing centres at the Wickham Park, Paultons, Cams Hall and South Winchester clubs have joined forces with Young Masters Golf to roll out one of the most ambitious coaching programmes in the UK.

It's designed to get the whole family playing golf and to encourage at least 1,000 new youngsters to take up the game in the next year alone.

During the coming months the YMG Junior Golf programme will be incorporated into the teaching activities at 30 Crown Golf clubs in the UK as part of the Crown Group's determination to ensure that clubs are recognised as the country's leading centres of excellence for golf coaching.

There are five levels on the YMG programme, each comprising an eight-week course of one-hour group lessons.