CN Future Links Skills Challenge

CN Future Links Skills Challenge

After another successful campaign in 2011, the CN Future Links Junior Skills Challenge National Event returns yet again in 2012.

This year’s event takes place Aug. 21st, at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, B.C. As in previous years, the event runs onsite during the Tuesday of CN Canadian Women’s Open week.

Juniors can qualify for the event by participating in local CN Future Links Junior Skills Challenges at various locations, such as golf courses and driving ranges, across Canada.

Once a junior’s score is determined at a local event, he or she will then have his or her name on the National Leaderboard. The top four players in each age group—11 and under; 12-14; and 15-18—for both boys and girls are will then have the chance to play in the National Event at Vancouver Golf Club.

The National Leaderboard also offers up a chance for kids to track their own progress in the four skills through a personal practice scorecard.

“We have found that kids just love checking their scores online,” says Golf Canada’s Manager of Youth Development, Ted Logan. “It’s a great online resource that’s part of the overall CN Future Links Skills Challenge program.”

In addition to the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rub shoulders with the stars of the LPGA Tour, each participant is offered a $500 travel subsidy from CN to travel to the National Event.

Each of the qualified and attending participants of the National Event will receive a performance recognition package valued at over $200 courtesy of Titleist.

The winners of the National Event in each age group for each gender will also receive a performance recognition package valued at $300 courtesy of Titleist.

National Junior Skills Challenge participants will also be invited to attend the CN Future Links Walk with a Pro event. This will take place on Aug., 22during the Pro-Am. Participants will have the chance to be an LPGA Tour star's caddie for a hole and even hit their first putt.

Participants will also get a chance to learn PGA of Canada professionals during the Golf Canada High Performance Camp. This will also take Aug. 22 at he Vancouver Golf Club.

“The Walk with the Pro is just amazing,” Logan says. “The smiles on the faces of those kids are absolutely priceless,” adding, “and you know what, the LPGA Tour pros have just as much fun as the kids.”

Just one of the many aspects of the CN Future Links program, conducted by Golf Canada in partnership with the Canadian PGA and Canada’s provincial golf association — which is aimed at getting more kids in Canada involved in golf — the Junior Skills Challenge is all about kids having fun and furthering their skills.

For more information on the CN Future Links Junior Skills Challenge events and how to particpate, click here.