Our team consists of full time and contract administrative staff, a development manager per region and over 50 contracted development and head coaches. All coaches are skilled golfers from the PGA or local communities. They speak the language of the children in their care, and understand their social & economic backgrounds.
How we make a difference
Golf's history of tradition and etiquette, its handicapping system and discipline of self regulation and integrity nurtures honourable qualities in its followers.
Primary - our primary impact lies with the sport itself. We actively broaden the golfing community and transform its composition to be more representative of society.
Secondary - The learners in our programmes are often children that would never have come into contact with golf, and the additional social benefit this exposure brings is immense. These children develop to become positive and stable role models in their own communities because of the discipline and deep values they learn through the game. They further develop into healthy and active members of society as adults, and become economically independent with their acquired skills.
Our goals are to:
"Take the game to the people", including underprivileged communities by providing free coaching and practice equipment
Nurture elite players by sponsoring equipment, club fees and competition participation
Make facilities more accessible
Secondary goals:
Develop players to meaningfully participate at all levels of golf.
Create heroes, stable role models and mentors in all communities.
Vision:
The SAGDB aims to make golf accessible to all South African communities by providing and facilitating practice and playing opportunities for learners and adults from underprivileged and previously disadvantaged communities. The board believes that golf is a powerful tool for social development, and growing the game will also help to build a nation to be proud of because it plays and lives by the unique ethics and values of the game.
Mission
Through its national programmes, the SAGDB will identify and develop talented players from all South African communities who will popularise and spread the unique spirit of the game.
Positioning
The SAGDB believes that moral and socio-economic upliftment is vital to South Africa's future. By making the game more accessible and more appealing, the board is recruiting South Africans to a sport that teaches an integral set of ethical rules and values, which can be applied to life.
The South African golf development board is officially registered as follows:
Section 21 Company (Association not for gain) - Registration No: 1999/0077362/08
Non-Profit organisation (NPO) - Registration No: #046-579-NPO
Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) - Reference No: #930005996c
The SAGDB has been approved as a public benefit organisation in terms of section 30 and also section 18A (1) of the Income Tax Act where donations to the SAGDB will be tax deductible in the hands of the donors in terms of and the subject to the limitations prescribed in section 18A of the Act.
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