Peters driving next generation of star golfers

CRESSY pro Stacey Peters will play a leading hand in developing Australia’s next generation of top golfers.

Peters secured the role as Golf Australia’s female national pathway manager last week and will start after the Ladies European Tour season finishes. It’s a job that will see her help increase the depth of the female talent pool in Australian golf. “I’m really excited for this opportunity — it’s a great combination of a heap of things I’m passionate about,” Peters said.

“I’ve always been a big fan of global golf at all levels and having travelled with a couple of young teams in different roles recently, it’s really highlighted to me how much I enjoyed that side of the game, too.

“There are unique challenges facing female golf at all levels around Australia and it’s something I’m really keen to put a different perspective on.

“Primarily that’s obviously with young girls coming through, but the chance to give all women a voice is part of what makes having such a role so important to us all.”

Peters’ golfing CV is a long one. She claimed the Victorian Open in 2013 and is a seventime winner on the ALPG Tour.

She is also a Spanish and French Open title winner and finished sixth on the LET order of merit in 2012.

Golf Australia high performance director Brad James said Peters was a perfect fit for the role. “She has a solid technical capacity, but also has a really good understanding of the challenges faced by young fe- male athletes from club level right through to the world’s elite tours,” James said.

“As a former Golf Australia national squad and rookie pro squad member, she also is familiar with the pathways as they stand and has sound ideas of how to make them even more successful into the future.”