The Buzz

Golf is not a contact sport, unless you nail a by-stander with a ball or break a club over your knee. It also provides exercise and teaches discipline.

So it’s a great game for youth, says Floyd Watkins. That’s why he has organized a non-profit group called the Youth Golfers Outreach Program to put a Golfers Gym System in every Lexington Community Center and in all Fayette County middle and high schools that want one.

Watkins, who has a company that installs backyard putting greens, says Youth Golfers Outreach wants to raise the $30,000 needed to put the program in each school and community center from private and business donors.

The cost includes training teachers who will then be able to teach youth most of the game of golf in any school gym, he said.

Unlike most other sports, “you can even be physically challenged and participate in golf,” Watkins noted.

His goal is to get the program going in the schools by next fall, in time for each school to train a team to compete in a tournament in 2009.

Just think, the next Tiger Woods could be sitting across from you at the dinner table.

The Web site is www.youthgolfersoutreachprogram.org.

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