Kent Golf Limited
Disability Golf in Kent - 2025 report
Date published: 3 Dec 2025
We are very pleased to report that 2025 has been another busy and rewarding year for Kent Golf with our initiatives for golfers with disabilities.
Our regular, well-established academy at Stonelees GC is the cornerstone of our activity in this key area, with the annual Family Disability Day & BBQ, which is always very popular and well supported. The standard this year was so high that we will be moving the event to one of the more difficult 9-hole courses there. We are continually grateful to everyone at Stonelees GC for their support of the County.
We have established an exciting link with Royal St George's GC during the summer and have held two very successful disability clinics there, with more planned for 2026. The club and the staff have been so welcoming on each occasion and have offered to help us with further events, which will include another session, including an R&A Foundation student attending from overseas.
We have recently announced the County’s new Disability Ambassador, Benji Heaton, the Assistant Golf Professional at Walmer & Kingsdown GC. Benji is a very enthusiastic young professional who has already worked with us and a group of youngsters at Royal St George's GC, which was his first official duty.
Benji has succeeded Kipp Popert, who has been a fantastic Ambassador for Kent and has now become a regular player on the EDGA tour and features regularly at the top of the G4D Tour leaderboards.
2025 also saw us forge a brand new relationship with 21Together, a Down's Syndrome Charity based in Maidstone. We held a joint family day with them and Growing Golf in the summer at Tudor Park GC, when youngsters, siblings and their families attended a fun golf taster session with lots of laughter with friends together. The 2026 date is currently being discussed, it is a lovely new relationship to have.
Our 2026 Autism Awareness Week sessions are already in the diary for the second week of April across four different Kent golf courses. We would like to thank James Rawlins and his team at SNB (Sketch N Build) for their generous sponsorship of this week, it means so much to have their support once again.
In recent times, we have been in discussion with EDGA, the European Disabled Golf Association, about a possible link and mentoring with a view to potentially holding an event for golfers with disabilities.
Tim Ewer
Junior Development Officer
Would you like to get involved? To find out more, visit www.kentgolf.org/disability-junior-academies
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