Junior Golf

Junior Golf at Riversdale

Riversdale has made a strong commitment to investing in the development of our junior golfers, ensuring you will have a supportive and inclusive environment to nurture your golfing skills. Whether playing for fun or looking to take part in competition golf, Riversdale has a vibrant and growing junior membership base that will allow you to take your golf wherever you want to.

Riversdale has over 100 members in the Junior program aged between 6 and 24 who are looked after by the Junior Development Committee. The Committee has created a new Junior and Young Adult Scholarship to be implemented from the 1st of January 2025 – see below for more details.

Categories available include:

• Cadet: Ages 14 and under
• Junior: Ages 12 -17
• Young Adult: Ages 18-24

See the Membership page for more information on joining.

Junior and Youth Scholarship

The Riversdale Golf Club Junior and Young Adult Scholarship Program exists to support and encourage the next generation of golfers.

Upon acceptance into the Scholarship Program, members will be split into a tier based on their involvement with the Club and their commitment to improving their golfing ability in the year prior. More information about the Program can be found here – Junior & Youth Scholarship Program
More information on the tiers can be found in the application – RGC Junior and Young Adult Scholarship Application.

Junior Competitions

• Junior Championship
  • Open to all amateur Riversdale members aged under 21 years at the commencement of the competition.
  • 36 Holes stroke play with the best Gross score winning.
  • Handicap event played concurrently.
• Junior Development Trophy
  • Open to all Cadets and Juniors up to the age of 18.
  • Aggregate of 4 best Stableford rounds over June, July and August.
• Riversdale Junior Open
  • Attracts a high-quality field of local junior golfers.
  • 18 Hole event with Gross, A-Grade, B-Grade and C-Grade winners.

Junior Pennant

Our Junior program has recently grown to the point where Riversdale has been able to enter up to three junior pennant teams in the annual Junior Pennant competition, the only Club to do so in Victoria. This ensures all our juniors are given the opportunity to represent the Club and experience the camaraderie and team environment of pennant golf. 

Course Access

Junior members are able to use the course at any time, subject to timesheet conditions.

Committee

Tini McKimm (Junior Development Co-ordinator), Scott Barnett, Gerri Biggs, Chris Gorman, John Horvath, Paul Ryan, Wendy Sharpe, Casey Tan.

Playing The Course

Members are welcome to accompany their children or grandchildren (under 18 years) on the course any day of the week after 4pm.

Some things to consider when promoting the game to juniors:

• Have fun – don’t worry about results.
• Tee the ball up on the fairway.
• Play shorter holes – from the ladies markers or the start of the fairway.
• Play Ambrose or other fun variations of the game
• Teach basic rules and etiquette – i.e. carry sand buckets, where to stand, courtesy to other players, pace of play etc.