Capital Launch for disabled golf season

 

NEWS RELEASE 

Over forty disabled golfers, from around the UK will take part in the 7th Scottish Disabled Golf Championship in Edinburgh this week. 

The two-day golf event will be held at the Swanston and Silverknowes Golf Clubs, in Edinburgh on Thursday-Friday, April 9-10, when players of all levels and abilities will take part in the first two rounds of golf for the Scottish Order of Merit Championship for 2015. 

 

Alan Robertson, the newly elected Team Scotland Captain of the charity said, "Early indications of form are promising and this will help out later in the year when we select players from the Scottish Merit Tables, for Team Scotland, who will take on the English for the Phoenix Cup at Cardrona in Peebles. 

 

This year, Scottish Disability Golf is celebrating its eleventh year of operation and organising golf, golf training and competition for its members.  With over nine hundred members in Scotland and other disabled golfing nations across the world, the SDGP has organised its most comprehensive fixture list of clinics and games, which includes the 4-day, 72-hole, World Disabled Team Cup at the Westerwood Hotel & Spa in cumbernauld in July, where up to 72 golfers will compete for the coveted title.

 

More information about the SDGP can be found at www.sdgp.org.uk