A golf club will officially open its new short-game facility thanks to a business grant.

Brampton Golf Club received £10k of Covid relief funding during the pandemic and decided to put it straight into a new short-game training facility that will officially open next month.

Jamie Miles, a Brampton Golf Club spokesperson, said the club was lucky to receive the grant, as other clubs didn’t get it.

He said: “Covid hit at the worst time.”

Members at the club were due to renew their membership during Covid’s peak, but thankfully many stayed loyal.

He added: “The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews along with Golf England visited and said they’re providing a support package for clubs, where a number of them will receive grants.

“We thought the best way to benefit the club and its loyal members would be to create a new short-game practice area.

“We’ve invested about as much ourselves as well.”

Jamie explained that the new facility was open for club members to use since April this year, but it wasn’t officially opened because some vital finishing touches are to be made ahead of its September 2 launch.

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