Striving to make golf more user friendly

There is not a week goes by when someone isn’t bemoaning the state of golf.

Whether it is slow play, environmental impact, prohibitive costs, intimidating courses or simply John Daly’s latest pair of trousers, there will be somebody, somewhere, telling us golf is going to hell in a handcart.

While many moan, others seek to take action and in Dublin today Pádraig Harrington will help deliver a development plan for the future of golf in Ireland on behalf of the Confederation of Golf in Ireland (CGI), the umbrella organisation created last year by the Golfing Union of Ireland (GUI), the Irish Ladies Golf Union (ILGU) and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA).