Saturday, October 12, 2013

SCOTTISH DISABLED GOLF'S ORDER OF MERIT FINALS

NEWS RELEASE
Over thirty six of the best disabled golfers from Scotland, England and
Germany have just finalised the title race for disabled golf's Order of Merit
Championship for 2013.
The finals, sponsored by Gavin Fisher at www.buyit4golf.com, were played in
St Andrews, at the Kittocks and Duke's Golf Courses and the overall winner,
after over 20 qualifying rounds since March, at venues across Scotland
and England, was Trevor Crombie of Kirkcaldy
Peter Osborne, the Scottish Chairman, himself taking a third place in the
Championship, said, "We have played some quality golf courses this year,
ranging across Scotland and down into England and it's great to see Trevor,
one of our newer members, taking the Championship.  We hope that this will
encourage him to attend some international and overseas disabled golf events
in 2014".
"We had over fifty disabled golfers competing in our Merit Championships
this year and we hope that this will give the chance to many more of our
younger members and beginners to the game, to take on a more competitive
type of competition and challenge".

The top ten winners of the Scottish Disability Golf Partnership's, Order of
Merit Championship 2013, are:

1 Trevor Crombie (Kirkcaldy) 129 pts
2 Derek Milne (Upper largo) 124
3 Peter Osborne (Carnforth, Lancs) 124
4 Garry McNulty (Glasgow) 107
5 Scott Anderson (Aberdeen) 104
6 Jim McNab (Glenrothes) 102
7 Steve Cunningham (Alloa) 95
8 Gary Gardner (Edinburgh) 88
9 John Elliot (Edinburgh) 84
10 Jim Gales (Springfield, Fife) 82
A joint special award was made and presented to two "Dedicated Coaches for
2013", Josh Osborne and Ben Osborne, aged 11 and 8 respectively.
The SDGP also ran a Championship for Coaches and the overall winners for
2013 were:
1st - John Murray of Glenrothes with 149 points 2nd - Bill Dickman of
Kinghorn, Fife 135 3rd - Ian Grimwade of Edinburgh 131 4th - Tony Tomasso of
Glasgow 92 5th - Donald Harper of Dunblane, Perthshire 52
A team event was also played, concluding at the Dukes event, which
incorporated both able bodied and disabled players and the winning team,
representing Glasgow and Renfrewshire were Thomas Kerr Scott, Tony Tomasso
and Rob Steele.
The SDGP now has one event left for the 2013 season and that will take place
at the Parador Golf Resort, Malaga in Spain.
The SDGP is a Registered Scottish Charity SCO 41000
www.sdgp.org.uk

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