Although it seems early to be talking about next season already, The Sports Academy started to recruit new clients for September 2009 at this time last year.
The project at Alhaurin Golf will go into its second year hopefully with plenty of bright new talent. Interviews have already taken place with potential clients from as far afield as Sweden and Poland.
The Sports Academy’s golf programmes have been developed with a single goal in mind; to provide junior golfers with a platform to reach their true potential in golf without restricting possible alternative careers. The course contents are built around our three main components: Golf Coaching, Golf Competition and Education. In addition to the development of a better golf game, we also seek to bring a sense of purpose and perspective to the time each student spends at the academy. Our aim is to nurture the talents of each student, through our strong emphasis on developing the total person, to arm them with the life skills to succeed in any chosen field.
The Sports Academy’s unique programme provides students with many routes of progression following their time with us and opens many doors.
The Programme can lead to access to professional golf, higher education, careers in the golf industry, careers in general sports industries and also a lower handicap!
The Sports Academy employs top class golf coaches, experienced in the delivery of both the technical and physical aspects of the game.
The Sports Academy can offer courses at Alhaurin to suit every young players needs. From the fulltime education inclusive course to Saturday morning classes, a prospective students’  requirements can be met.
For more details please call Patsy Fomes on 626 063 225 or e-mail patsy@thesportsacademy.org.

TSA NEWS
This issue, I would like to mention players at The Sports Academy with higher handicaps. The two youngest students, Jake Rose 14 and Myles King 13, have done extremely well already.
Jake started in October with a handicap of 15 and has performed so well in TSA competitions that he currently leads the nett Order of Merit and has reduced his handicap to 8 already!
It is a similar story for Myles, who started with a handicap of 13. Myles has played really well too in TSA competitions with his best score of 76 helping to reduce his handicap to 8 as well.
He also won a junior competition at Magna Marbella with a score of 1 over par.
Also worthy of mention are Jordan Abbasciano and Dani Anderson. Jordan joined the academy in October with a handicap of 9 and excellent scores including a level par 72 have moved his handicap to 5. Dani performed superbly at the Golf Festival at Hacienda del Aloma. Playing off a 4 handicap in a very strong field, Dani finished 6th in her category and 2nd in the nett completion.