The Carrick on Loch Lomond hosted the latest of Scotland's disabled golf competitions last weekend.

Some two dozen members of the Scottish Disability Golf Partnership and coaches travelled from all parts of Scotland to participate over the picturesque golf course.

The SDGP Chairman, Jim Gales said, "It was great to see many of our new members turning out to have a crack at this tough course.  All our players and coaches were competing for spots in the GolfbloggerUK Order of Merit Championship and trying to gain places in the 2011 Scottish Team for the Nations Cup. This is a brand new event for Scotland; it's based on the Ryder Cup format and will involve four teams made up of 12 players per team and, competing over four days and involve
Scotland, England, Wales and a World team".

This was a rescheduled game from March, after the Scottish weather forced the organisers to postpone but thanks to the Management at the Carrick, and some excellent green keeping staff, this was quickly turned around.

David of Airdrie, a new SDGP member said, "I was involved in an accident and this left me with a lot of mobility problems and until I found the SDGP I thought I was finished with golf.  There are some great games coming up, at Machrihanish and a trip to Arran and I am going along to some of their training days to help my game.  All I need now is to improve my golf handicap and I'll be out there as often as I can!

The SDGP winners on the day at the Carrick were - Stewart Brown of Glasgow 37 pts, Fraser Paterson of Edinburgh 36, Alasdair Berry of Ayrshire 34, Derek Milne of Fife 34, Bob Drysdale of Fife 32 and
Jim Gales of Fife 31.

Winning Coaches at the Carrick were - Peter Belcher of Edinburgh 31 pts, Barry Livesey of Lancashire 31, Steve Beet of Lancashire 30, Alan Bruce of Glasgow 28 and Paul Shepherd of Fife 27.

The next SDGP competitions will take place at Lothianburn, the Isle of Arran and Alloa and a date as been set for the SDGP's second annual free training day at Newton Mearns Golf Academy.  Further information about all the SDGP's events, can be found at www.sdgp.co.uk. or by email at info@sdgp.co.uk.