Nine-year-old golfer Lorelai Close has been playing on the European Junior Golf Tour for a year and she says that she just loves playing with her family and friends. Lorelai is a member of Woolley Park, Oulton Hall, and Garforth Golf Clubs, and is coached by PGA coaches Jon Baldwin and Steve Carlisle. The youngster […]
David Grace has been a regular on snooker’s professional tour since 2008, the same year he won the European Snooker Championships, and has successfully earned a living from the sport he loves – in more ways than one. Grace, born in Leeds in 1985, grew up playing snooker with his dad from the age of […]
Fresh calls have been made for urgent research into a large number of ACL injuries in women’s football following Vivianne Miedema suffering a ruptured ACL injury for Arsenal. Miedema suffered the injury playing for the Gunners in their Champions League tie against Lyon on Thursday 15 December and the forward has now been ruled out […]
While we dedicate a lot of our time to covering the great and the good of grassroots sport, we cannot help but get a little bit excited about Christmas…especially with the start of the PDC World Darts Championship! Since the inception of the PDC in the 1990s, following the much-documented split from the BDO, the […]
Winter is well and truly here, with temperatures below freezing across the country, which has already wreaked havoc on grassroots sports. It is the annual headache that grassroots coaches across many sports face – winter training. Getting games on at the weekend is one thing, but training in the dark on a midweek evening is […]
Nine-year-old Artie Atwal took up golf during the first Covid lockdown in 2020 and has fallen in love with the game, dreaming of one day playing on the PGA Tour. Artie, who is a member of Poult Wood Golf Club in Kent, was six years old when he was playing mini-golf with his dad, Sanjit […]
England secured their place in the World Cup quarter-finals and are two games away from a place in the final on Sunday 18 December, potentially clashing with hundreds of grassroots games. The World Cup final will kick-off at 3pm UK time and, due to the tournament taking place in winter, will clash with Sunday afternoon […]
Olympian Lucy Renshall told Fen Regis Trophies that she is thankful for discovering judo in primary school, and dreams of winning gold after competing in Tokyo. Renshall was first introduced to judo at the age of eight when SKK Judu Club coach Peter Blood held taster sessions at her primary school in Walsall. Having discovered […]
Three-time world champion Glen Durrant has announced his retirement from professional darts and will play in the World Seniors Darts Championship in February. Durrant enjoyed a dominant spell on the BDO circuit, winning the World Championship at Lakeside for three consecutive years in 2017, 2018, and 2019 before making the move across to the PDC. […]
New rules will be brought into effect to disqualify horses whose jockeys are found to be in serious breach of whip guidelines in 2023. The new rules will come into place from 9 January for jump racing, with a full implementation from 27 March across all forms of racing. Jockeys who strike their horses four […]
