Huxley Golf has installed a new all-weather putting green at the Caddie School for Soldiers in St Andrews, Scotland.
The Scottish charity has a mission is to help veterans from America, Canada and the UK work through their physical injuries and post-traumatic stress while learning the skills needed to work as a caddie. Each cohort lives at St Andrews Home For Soldiers while training daily at the Dukes Course. Here, they discover new talents while finding healing, relaxation and confidence.
Founder and CEO Don J Snyder said: “The Caddie School program was created to help veterans earn back their belief in themselves, so that they can continue in life with the measure of dignity they are entitled to.”
Huxley Golf designed and installed a Premier All-Weather putting green in a relaxing garden area.
With a variety of interesting slopes and four holes, this green provides practice for borrowing and straight putts, all within a 20ft by 15ft space. It is finished with a Premier Fringe 35 surround.
Hugh Fraser, Huxley Golf’s Scotland and North East England Area Manager, was delighted to be
involved in this life-changing project and to collaborate with the team at St Andrews once more. “The soldiers that participate in the amazing Caddie School for Soldiers programme rightly deserve the very best facilities and we were very pleased to be asked to deliver this for them in the form of a
superb new Putting Green,” he said.
Cameron Steele, Estate Director at the Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort and Spa at St Andrews,
commented: “Adding a Huxley Golf Putting Green into our Caddie School garden has given it a
whole new dimension. It now offers the soldiers a relaxing, restorative area but also a fun
social space to use during their rehabilitation.
“We were confident that we could achieve this goal by working with Huxley Golf on this project
and this proved to be the case. Working alongside the Huxley team was a pleasure. The
professional manner in which they delivered to our requirements and timeframe is testament
to their reputation and standing across the golf industry.”