Pitch & Putt Summer Camp 'a great week'

St Bridget's Pitch & Putt Club hosted 24 youngsters at the recent Summer Camp held at the course under the auspices of the Pitch & Putt Union of Ireland.

The participants ranged in age from 8-13 and the week was supervised by Pauric Buggy, Course Development officer of the PPUI, along with local club members Liam and Mary Sherry, Dave Hanlon and Eddie Carey.

"It was a great week," Liam said afterwards. "The youngsters were from Kilcullen and also from other parts of Kildare. They're all very interested, and their parents told me that during the camp they would talk about nothing else at home but chips and putts and birdies, so they must have been enjoying it."

Most of those taking part were in their first year of playing pitch and putt, and the selection of the Kilcullen facility as one of two in Ireland to run the course followed on from a very successful coaching of students at Brannockstown NS.

The Kilcullen club has gained ten new members this year and is now up to 64, and there are 18 juveniles in 2010 compared to just three or four last year.

"As well as that, some of the adults who had stopped playing are now coming back," Liam says.

Brian Byrne.

(This article was originally published on the Kilcullen Page of the Kildare Nationalist.)