Following an invitation from the Elmwood Golf Society Captain and members, disabled golfers and coaches from the Scottish Disability Golf Partnership attended Elmwood Golf Club on Saturday 24 September to play in a Challenge Cup match with their members. 

Pictured are (from left to right): Stevie Cunningham Vice Chair SDGP and Challenge Cup winners Derek Milne, Colin Brock and Colin Brown of EGS.

Jim Gales, the event organiser said, "We had disabled members and their coaches attending from as far afield as Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perthshire, as well as locally based golfers.  The Elmwood members have been great and generous hosts in previous years and we always look forward to a friendly match.  This is the eighth year we have played for the Cup and its one of our most popular competitions, all thanks to a warm welcome from the Elmwood players."

Some of the SDGP participants will now ready themselves for the journey to Northumberland's Slaley Hall Golf Resort, for the inaugural three day "Auld Enemies", Ryder Cup match.  This will be the first ever pan-disability international between the two nations and Team Scotland will take thirteen disabled players and five coaches to Slaley.  An event the SDGP has arranged and organised.

Elmwood winners on the day were -

Team prize, winning the Elmwood Challenge Cup and a fourball were Colin Brown of EGS, Colin Brock of Glenrothes and Derek Milne of Largo.  The Brock Milne combo took the top two places at the SDGP individual members stableford and Donald Harper and Ian Grimwade took prizes in the SDGP Coaches and EGS members section.

The SDGP is already well into the organisation of their 2012 calendar and have many of their regular competitions along with many new events and venues,, which includes an Open Championship, a Scotland v England Ryder Cup and a 4-Nations event, previously held at Celtic manor in Wales.

In addition to the Scotland v England Ryder Cup, the SDGP has two remaining 2011 events organised at Balbirnie and Tulliallan Golf Clubs in October.  For further details about these events, or disabled golf generally, contact Jim Gales on 01334 650 963 or sdgp@btinternet.com.

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