Perthshire golfer Carly Booth has taken part in a new national campaign to encourage women and girls to take up the sport.
The This Girl Golfs video will be launched at Turnberry, in Scotland, next week as the best female players in the world compete in the Ricoh Women’s British Open.
The video, which also features Charley Hull and Henni Zuel, aims to raise awareness of women’s golf and deconstruct negative stereotypes surrounding the game.
The short film also shows BBC news presenter Naga Munchetty playing golf with a friend, a father and daughter on the course together and ordinary women playing for their club and hitting balls at a driving range and on a beach.
It aims to inspire women and girls to take up golf by demonstrating that it is a social, competitive and healthy game available to everyone.
This Girl Golfs is a collaboration between the Professional Golfers Association (PGA), the amateur golf governing bodies England Golf and the Scottish Golf Union and Leeds-based publisher Sports Publications.
Inspired by Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign, it comes after research revealed there are currently more active female golfers in the Netherlands than in England, where women represent just 15% of golf club members.
The report, by Sports Marketing Surveys, also found that only one in 25 female golf club members are juniors.
Professional golfer Hull said she hoped This Girl Golfs would encourage more women and girls on to the golf course.
“I have always had a love of golf, picking up my first club aged five,” she said. “It’s a fantastic game to play with friends, a great way to relax and get outdoors.
“It’s been great to be part of This Girl Golfs. I hope it will encourage girls to head down to their local driving range or golf club and give it a go.”
Sandy Jones, chief executive of the PGA, added: “Golf is a very accessible, welcoming and enjoyable environment and we want to get that message across to women who may not have considered golf as an option.
“This is a great opportunity to both raise the profile of golf, break down myths and misconceptions and to actively encourage women of all ages to see golf as a realistic choice – whether that is for personal, professional, business or social reasons.”
To view the This Girl Golfs video and find out more about how women and girls can become involved in golf in the UK, go to thisgirlgolfs.nationalclubgolfer.com.