Equity in Golf
The Executive Committee of the English Golf Union at their
meeting on 18th February agreed to adopt the Joint EGU/ELGA
Equity Statement and the Action Plan that has been produced
to Achieve Racial Equality: A Standard for Sport.
The English Golf Union and English Ladies Golf Association
in conjunction with The Professional Golfers Association and
the Golf Foundation had already signed up to the Charter for
Racial Equality in Sport and this approval of the Equity Statement
is further evidence of the commitment to promote Equity in
Golf.
Representatives from the four bodies last year, took part
in a joint ceremony as the first stage of the process whereby
golf aims to satisfy the criteria necessary to achieve the
Preliminary Level of the Sporting Equals' Achieving Racial
Equality: A Standard for Sport.
It was greatly appreciated that the bodies involved in golf
are working together in this way and demonstrates the commitment
of all parties to promote this policy.
An Equity audit has already been undertaken using a random
yet representative selection of some 15000 members from a
number of affiliated clubs that included private and proprietor
owned, large and small, urban and rural. The answers received
have been analysed and correlated and will constitute part
of the statistical information that has been compiled as evidence
in pursuit of the Standard.
An adapted version of the National Equity Policy is to be
circulated to all affiliated clubs County Unions and Associations
with the recommendation from EGU and ELGA that this is adopted
by them and included as part of their Constitution and Rules.
Philip Parker, Chairman of the EGU states that the adoption
of the Policy is not retrospective nor is it mandatory upon
existing clubs however, for new clubs wishing to affiliate
after 1st March 2003 the adoption of the Policy will be mandatory.
For those Clubs that do adopt the Policy they can choose to
receive a commemorative certificate for display on their premises.
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