The 2022 British Blind Golf Open was held in Aviemore on the Spey Valley Golf Course.
The match permits registered-blind golfers to participate with the help of a information across the course.
Whereas at this 12 months’s British Blind Golf Open in Aviemore, house favorite Barry McCluskey shared why blind golf is a crucial incapacity sport.
It’s becoming the occasion returns to Scotland this 12 months as organisers have fun the fortieth anniversary of the Scottish Blind Golf competitors.
Twenty-two gamers from world wide took half over the three days starting with a follow day on Monday, July 4.
Golfers compete in three classes relying on their degree of visible impairment, with Barry McCluskey, 41, alongside individuals who can see as much as 30 yards.
5 prizes will probably be awarded to the winner of every class, an general winner and a women’ champion – two girls are competing for the title.
The occasion, organised by Blind Golf Scotland, didn’t have the perfect climate nonetheless the match made for an exciting competitors.
Mr McCluskey – recent from profitable the Spanish Blind Golf Open – competed on the occasion and is raring for extra funding to advertise the game.
He stated: “We’re selling blind golf inside Scotland by having the British Open right here in Aviemore.
“We are attempting to encourage as many blind and visually-impaired folks as we are able to to come back and check out the game out and that is the right area to try this.
“Whereas this is likely one of the largest occasions on the calendar, we don’t get sufficient publicity and promotion. There needs to be extra funding for disabled golf.”
The European Golf Tour organised by the PGA is at present seeking to work alongside EDGA (European Disabled Golf Affiliation) to advertise incapacity golf.
Blind golf will not be as broadly recognised as some incapacity sports activities, having been excluded from the 2024 Summer season Paralympics in Paris.
Mr McCluskey believes that blind golf is gaining extra help up to now few years and makes for a aggressive however social occasion.
