Dear Industry Colleague

As you will see from our lead article this month, Nick Pink has resigned from England Golf and I’m after the job.

As regular readers of this magazine will know, I have often been disparaging of England Golf as they continue to fumble golf’s future. Now I am providing an alternative set of views as to how golf could be improved dramatically in the coming years. I am serious in my intention and would happily give two years of my life for no financial reward, but I am not 100% convinced that everyone will feel the same way.

There is a clear need for a new path and even if I don’t get the job, I hope that the new incumbent will seize on his or her opportunity to reshape the game so that it works for everyone. Any more drift and England Golf will collapse completely.

The Tour Championships conclude this week with vast prizes on offer to the world’s best golfers. It’s an exciting finale to the season, only slightly vulgarised by the huge amounts of money, but a great spectacle nevertheless. This shake up in the world golfing calendar has been brought on by the power of television in the USA. It could work for the benefit of golf, as the newly rescheduled BMW PGA Championships at Wentworth, will provide a perfect finale to the British golf season.  The world’s top golfers
will then be free to tramp around the world collecting vast appearance fees, but more importantly popularising the game around the globe. What started out in greed may accidentally be helping to develop the game more globally.

Please help me get the job at England Golf - I would greatly appreciate it if you would send letters of support for my application to Nic Coward, Chairman, England Golf, Woodhall Spa.

Best wishes Colin Jenkins

Best wishes, Colin Jenkins