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KEITH ROBINSON WINS SOUTHERN OPEN

Local Handigolfer Keith Robinson won the 2008 Southern Open played at the very demanding Lullingstone Park course. Ray Lee (East Sussex) was second and Mark Gibson (Northern Ireland) was third. Congratulations to all competitors and thanks to Eric and Tony Tofield for organising the great day.

ANDY GORE WINS AT SOUTHPORT

Andy Gore is obviously getting used to the Paragolf buggy as he took first place at June's Southport Disabled Golfers day organised by One-arm-golfer George Carter. Well done Andy !

NEW EVENT NEAR ST ANDREWS

Ray Lee has had confirmation of a new event in Fife that is cheap and opent to Handigolfers.
It is the first SDGP Open on Sept 8-10th see diary page for details

Terry Kirby wins the 2008 National title

Terry Kirby is the new National Champion after beating Tony Tofield (2nd) and Tucker Chance (3rd) over the Normanby Hall course on the 12th May in sunny Scunthorpe conditions. Much fancied Mark Gibson's challenge faltered when he played the wrong ball over one of the closing holes. However he took the North Lincs. Biffa Open trophy back to Northern Ireland thanks to the Stableford scoring format.

Fantastic donation from Ullesthorpe Golf Club

Julie-Ann Sewell, last year's captain of this Leicestershire golf club has nominated Handigolf as one of her beneficiaries from her charity fund. Hence out-of-the-blue we are to benefit from over £2000 from the club.

Hence we will be able to put this very generous donation to good use this season to help with the purchase of buggies. As usual, because we are a true volunteer charity none of this donation will be swallowed up in indirect costs and all of it will be put to direct use.

Thank you Ullesthorpe Golf Club

New Grant from Royal and Ancient

The R & A have responded very generously to our recent grant application. £3000 has been awarded from their disabled golf budget to go towards this year's buggy purchase.

Accordingly two buggies will bear R&A stickers this season to show our appreciation of this direct help.

ENGLISH GOLF PARTNERSHIP HANDICAP PROPOSAL

Shown below is a new proposal for disabled golf handicaps which is most interesting above 28. It only differs from ours in that you come down more slowly but does assume everyone belongs to a golf club.

New trailer for the Foundation Buggy donated by Litttlestone Golf Club

Our Paragolfer can now be transported by any vehicle with a tow bar using the new trailer designed and built by Geoff Dickens at Baroni Martin Engineering and shown below.

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