Golf in Schools

Six weeks, a school hall, and a route out to the range

If you want more people playing golf, you don't start at the golf club. You start where the kids already are.

Apeiron Academy runs golf programmes in schools across Merseyside and Cheshire — for most of the kids we work with, it's the first time they've held a club.

How the programme works

Six weeks, delivered in school.

We start indoors, in the hall, because that's the space schools have and because it takes the intimidation out of it. No dress code, no green fees, no eyes on you. Just a club, a ball, and someone showing you what to do with them.

The six weeks aren't a taster session. They're structured — grip, contact, control, then actually playing — because a single afternoon of novelty doesn't turn anyone into a golfer.

Then, where the school has the space, we move outdoors. Onto the field, or out to a driving range. That step matters more than it sounds. Hitting a ball properly in a hall is one thing; watching it fly is what makes people want to do it again.

Wade Deacon High School, Widnes

Our programme at Wade Deacon has been one of our most successful — a full run of sessions with real progression through the six weeks and kids who kept turning up.

Bank View

Our longest-standing school partnership is with Bank View, a special educational needs school.

We've been running there for years now, and it's some of the work we're most proud of. The kids love it, the sessions are the highlight of a lot of their weeks, and the coaching adapts to whoever's in front of us rather than the other way round.

Golf is unusually good at this. It can be adapted almost infinitely — distance, equipment, target, format — without stopping being golf.

Summer holidays

We also run one and two-day sessions during the summer holidays, for schools running summer provision.

Six weeks of school holiday is a long time to fill, and golf is something most of these kids have never been offered. Our most recent was at Park Brow, and a good number of them left saying they wanted to take it up properly.

That's the whole measure of whether this works. Not how many balls got hit — how many of them wanted to come back.

Why an apparel brand runs a coaching programme

Because it was always meant to.

Apeiron Academy CIC and Apeiron Clothing started as one idea, not two. Five percent of every order goes into the Academy. The polos fund the sessions.

Golf has a genuine access problem — cost, kit, dress codes, and the sense that it isn't for you. We can't fix all of that. But we can turn up at a school with clubs and let a room full of kids find out whether they like it.

Get golf into your school

If you're at a school, sports hall or community group in the Northwest and want a golf programme, we'd like to hear from you.

Get in touch at info@apeiron-clothing.com.

Apeiron Academy CIC delivers golf coaching in schools, sports halls and golf facilities across the Northwest. Learn more about the Academy, or shop the range that funds it.