Global Golf Mentorship Initiative launches in Uganda

Initiative attracts enhance from 32 industry leaders across 11 international locations

Citadel Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a landmark initiative position to reshape the skill forward for golf mentorship in Africa, the AFRIYEA Golf Academy in Uganda on Wednesday launched its inaugural AFRIYEA Golf Mentorship Programme, attracting the backing of 32 golf leaders from 11 varied international locations.

This pioneering programme, the first of its form in Uganda and East Africa aims to compare promising younger golfers with a diverse panel of mentors – including PGA mavens, industry executives, greenkeepers/ sustainabillity, authors, commentators, and entrepreneurs. The aim is to domesticate expertise, foster world connections, and encourage the next period of African golfers by sharing recordsdata, experiences, and lifestyles classes that transcend the golf route.

“This is more than simply golf. It’s a circulation to encourage hope, character, and neighborhood,” said Isaiah Mwesige, the Founder of AFRIYEA Golf Academy. “We’re no longer most attention-grabbing matching kids with mavens; we are connecting them with human reviews, expertise, and dreams. Golf has a pickle in shaping a more in-depth world, and this mentorship program is a large step forward for that imaginative and prescient.”

The listing of supporters reads enjoy a Who’s Who of the arena golf scene, including names equivalent to Simon Holmes and Richard Kaufman from Sky Sports, Sarah Bennett, Director of Females’s Golf Colleges in England and the 2022 PGA Captain of UK and Ireland, Kristian Kohn from Denmark’s Green Up Golf Tees, Jennifer Mackinnon from Calvary ,Canada, and Michael Ryan, an elite performance psychologist based in the UAE.

There will not be any better feeling then to be asked to motivate bag a inequity. A Mentor voluntary role to enhance, build and recordsdata younger golfers with the fervour to journey the monumental advantages golf offers. Looking out forward to helping with the team ⛳ Thanks pic.twitter.com/6SpVlplp71

— Sarah Bennett PGA (@SBennettGolf) June 4, 2025

This younger golfer’s first time on the route is solely the starting build. With enhance and steering, he’s poised to shine in due route. Let’s work collectively to nurture golf expertise and develop the game in Uganda.

Become a mentor to those minute golfers.#Juniorgolf#inspirinfuganda pic.twitter.com/c2Xx3ZcGEL

— AFRIYEA Golf Academy AGA 🇺🇬🌍 (@AfriyeaGolf) June 12, 2025

“Mentorship in golf is long previous due in many areas. AFRIYEA’s approach, centred around values, training, and international collaboration, is exactly what the game wants. It’s an honour to be portion of it,”  said Ian McDonald, co-founder of Catch the Mild in Scotland, before the old day’s launch.

Jim Ferguson, Director at Ireland’s Turnkey Golf, echoed this sentiment before the launch: “This programme reminds us that golf is no longer most attention-grabbing a sport however a car for lifestyles-altering mentorship. These kids should always no longer most attention-grabbing the following day’s golfers they’re the following day’s leaders.”

The mentorship programme will no longer most attention-grabbing link kids to international mentors by project of digital platforms however will additionally hit upon the intersection of golf and environmental sustainability, with steering from greenkeepers and mavens promoting eco-unsleeping practices in golf route administration.

“This is Uganda’s time to imprint what’s imaginable when ardour meets opportunity,” Mwesige concluded. “We’re grateful for every mentor standing with us and more importantly, standing with our kids.

Paunchy listing of mentors to work with AFRIYEA