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By day Brandie Deignan works as a chief executive in NHS primary care in England. She has previously held senior leadership roles in hospitality, aviation and retail.<\/p>\n
As she speaks, a group of 12 and 13-year-old girls from Llanishen High School in Cardiff are practising their chipping and putting in the drizzle behind her.<\/p>\n
They are part of the Leadership in Sport \u2013 Girls to Golf programme which aims to attract schoolgirls by combining sporting skills with leadership qualities.<\/p>\n
Deignan hopes some of the girls on the programme will keep playing in future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just like a dream come true, walking into a golf club and seeing 15 amazing young women who have never played, who have been given the experience and the opportunity to play,” she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it’s priceless. And 99% of them said to me, they love golf, and they will stay in golf. Now, there is the magic of this.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, if we did nothing but to give these young women that we’ve seen today the experience of golf, the warmth of golf, the feeling that they belong – because that’s the sense I got from them – we would have done something really special.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of all, if they went back and told a few of their friends, their family, their relatives, about golf, that is brilliant.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we’ve got to fix the access problem in golf, because we’ve got a real access issue in golf, and from a Wales Golf perspective we’re working really, really hard [to improve that].<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s why we’re doing things like this, because we’ve got to have open access.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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