World One-Armed Championship at Nairn Dunbar

NEWS RELEASE
The Society of World One-Armed Golfers are visiting Nairn Dunbar Golf Club for the World Championships, the first time the event has gone to the Highlands of Scotland and members from USA, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, Europe, Ireland and the UK are looking forward to playing the challenging links course.
The week’s programme commences on Monday, June 7 and will consist of two days of 18-hole qualifying medal rounds where everyone plays off scratch. The top 16 then go into a match-play knock-out format with the final taking place on the afternoon of Friday, June 11.
Stableford competitions also take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings.
The Society was founded in Glasgow in 1932 when members were primarily war victims but now include polio, thalidomide, motor accident and industrial accident victims. Since the Society was founded it has attracted an aggregate membership of around 1,000.
The current World Champion is Nick Champness from Royal Ashdown GC. He won his first championship in 1998 and has won the last four events to equal the record of seven wins set by Scot Alex Wilmott (Carnoustie) and Andy Robinson from England.
The 2009 and 2010 Championships are also the qualifying stages for the Fightmaster Cup where the top 10 players plus two captain’s picks will compete against disabled one-armed golfers from USA and Canada in a Ryder Cup format at St Pierre GC in South Wales from September 10 to 12.
Further details on the Society of One-Armed Golfer available from its website http://www.soags.co.uk/