2025 Golf Squad
Austin Alchin
Jesse Barac
Braxton Ivanoff
Isabella Johnson
Henry Molloy
Oliver Nelson
Blake Royal
Harrison Uphill

Development Squad
Archie Southwell
Hongyi Wang
Ollie Hawkins
Will Stanley

Head Coach
James Purcell

Manager
John Barac

The SSA program provides high-performance coaching and training opportunities to up-skill athletes and assist them in progressing to higher representation within the sport of golf.

The SSA golf program is endorsed by Jack Newton Junior Golf as the first step in the elite athlete pathway.

The program sits between local representative golf and higher-order representation such as NSW state team selection.

The 2025 golf program will run from October 2024 to through 2025 with athletes to graduate from the program at the 2025 Presentation Night in July.

Training location: Wagga Wagga Country Club and Thurgoona Country Club.

To be eligible for selection in the 2025 program, athletes must:

• be turning 12-17 years of age in 2025
• be living or attending school in the SSA Catchment Area
• be a registered member of Golf NSW and a member of a local club
• submit a nomination form before the closing date

The following selection criteria may be taken into consideration during the selection process:

• Physical attributes and capabilities
• Technical competence
• Tactical awareness
• Potential to improve
• Competitive ability
• Individual application
• Performance and results at specific events
• Coachability and behaviour

• Regular team and individual coaching sessions from November 2024 through to April 2025
• Induction and Leadership camp
• Your Local Clubs Academy Games (eligible sports)
• Participation in the Peter O’Malley Junior Masters at Bathurst
• The opportunity to be selected in the North versus South Challenge
• Muscular skeletal Screening and Athletic Development Programming
• Workshops focussing on Sports Psychology, Strength and Conditioning and Sports Medicine. Workshops relating to
athlete personal development will also be offered during the scholarship period
• Gym membership (dependent on partnerships within your local town)
• Online and face-to-face education relating to athlete personal development
• Annual presentation evening (sit-down dinner)
• Southern Sports Academy uniform

A program levy will be applicable to successful athletes.  Also an athlete uniform ordered though our online clothing supplier is required for new athletes.

Athlete levies are subsidised by minimum $100 worth or raffle ticket sales by athletes, this program is also eligible for the NSW Government Active Kids $50 voucher rebate.

* Scholarships are not in the form of a monetary sum but enable the athlete to participate in Academy development programs at a greatly reduced rate.