{"id":75631,"date":"2013-08-05T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/?p=75631"},"modified":"2013-08-05T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T19:33:06","slug":"6-icelandic-golfers-got-grants-from-forskot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/6-icelandic-golfers-got-grants-from-forskot\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Icelandic golfers got grants from Forskot"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 26th 2013 it was announced who those Icelandic golfers were, who are sponsored this year by Forskot, an Icelandic Achievement Fund For Golfers. Founders of the Fund are Eimskip<\/strong> (Icelands biggest shipping company), Valitor<\/strong> \u00a0(Mastercard Iceland), the Icelandic Golf Federation<\/strong>, \u00cdslandsbanki<\/strong> (one of the 3 biggest banks in Iceland) and Icelandair Group<\/strong> (largest airline in Iceland).<\/p>\n

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From left.: Bj\u00f6rg\u00f3lfur J\u00f3hannsson, CEO of Icelandair Grop, Birna \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, bankier of Islandsbanki; \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0ur Rafn Gissurarson, GR; \u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn Loftsson, NK; Axel B\u00f3asson, GK; Birgir Leifur Haf\u00fe\u00f3rsson, Vi\u00f0ar \u00deorkelsson, CEO Valitor and og H\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u00deorsteinsson, Director of the Icelandic Golf Federation.<\/p><\/div>\n

These companies have actively supported golf in the past, but are now united through\u00a0Forskot<\/strong>, a fund supporting and sponsoring Icelandic Golfers. \u00a0The fund’s objective is to support the players, professionals and amateurs, the aim being to get Icelandic golfers among those leading the world of golf.<\/p>\n

The goal is to create an experience base with regard to the future players and to which young players can look at in their future plans.<\/p>\n

Golf will return as a competition event at the Olympic Games in 2016 after an over 100 year break. The fund supports \u00a0Icelandic players so that they can achieve the goal of getting to the Olympics and\/or succeed in getting on one of the major tours such as the European Tour \/ PGA Tour or LET\/LPGA.<\/p>\n

The fund will focus on two to five players every year \u00a0striving to make it easier for Icelandic golfers to practice and compete in the very best conditions and in line with what happens in the international arena.<\/p>\n

At the founding emphasize was put on the importance of creating strong role models, that are achievers in golf, which is one of many \u00a0important factors in trying to get more children and adolescents to participate in golf. \u00a0The Fund is regarded as an important step to promote golf among children and young people and encourage them to succeed.<\/p>\n

One representative from each of the founding partners is on the board of the Fund but the Board of Directors is also advised by a professional team which makes recommendations who gets the grants each year. The professional team includes the following individuals\u00a0\u00dalfar Jonsson<\/strong>, coach of Team Iceland i.e. the Icelandic National Golf Team,\u00a0The\u00f3d\u00f3r Kristj\u00e1nsson<\/strong>, Chairman of the Comittee of the Icelandic National Golf Team at the Icelandic Golf Federation (abbreviated GSI in Icelandic),\u00a0Brynjar Geirsson<\/strong>, Assitant National Golf Coach,\u00a0Sigurp\u00e1ll Geir Sveinsson<\/strong>, chairman of PGA Iceland and\u00a0Gauti Gr\u00e9tarsson<\/strong>, Physiotherapist.<\/p>\n

The board has decided to support the following players in 2013 and the overall sum is 15 million Icelandic kronas this year:<\/p>\n

Professionals who are sponsored by Forskot 2013 are:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Birgir<\/a><\/p>\n

Birgir Leifur Haf\u00fe\u00f3rsson<\/strong>\u00a0GKG<\/p>\n

\"\u00d3lafur<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn Loftsson<\/strong>\u00a0NK<\/p>\n

\"26\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00de\u00f3r\u00f0ur Rafn Gissurarson<\/strong>\u00a0GR<\/p>\n

Sponsored amateurs:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Axel<\/a><\/p>\n

Axel B\u00f3asson<\/strong>\u00a0GK<\/p>\n

\"\u00d3laf\u00eda<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>\u00a0GR<\/p>\n

Other grants:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Einar<\/a><\/p>\n

Einar Haukur \u00d3skarsson,<\/strong>\u00a0GK<\/strong>\u00a0Nordea Tour<\/p>\n

Rigid requirements are made in order for these athletes to achieve \u00a0grants from\u00a0Forskot<\/strong>\u00a0and are everyone is required to submit drills and competition plans and budgets for their projects as well as \u200b\u200ba special contract is made with each golfer that they respect the rules of Golf and those of the Olympic Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 26th 2013 it was announced who those Icelandic golfers were, who are sponsored this year by Forskot, an Icelandic Achievement Fund For Golfers. Founders of the Fund are Eimskip (Icelands biggest shipping company), Valitor \u00a0(Mastercard Iceland), the Icelandic Golf Federation, \u00cdslandsbanki (one of the 3 biggest banks in Iceland) and Icelandair Group (largest airline in Iceland). These companies have actively supported golf in the past, but are now united through\u00a0Forskot, a fund supporting and sponsoring Icelandic Golfers. \u00a0The fund’s objective is to support the players, professionals and amateurs, the aim being to get Icelandic golfers among those leading the world of golf. The goal is to create an Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1654,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}