Blind Golfer Eager For Tournament
51-year old Briton Jan Dinsdale is anxious to play at the Nedbank SA Disabled Golf Open 2008 at Erinvale Golf Estate from May 5-8.
There will be 11 international players in the tournament including Dinsdale and defending champion and leg amputee Mick Horsley from England who is chasing his third title on South African soil.
Dinsdale, lost her sight in 1996 due to cone-rod dystrophy and took up golf two years later. She has proved to be an excellent player in the last 10 years.
During the 2004 Canadian Open in Kelowna, she recorded the first hole-in-one by a visually impaired or blind female golfer.
Dinsdale says the advantage to being visually impaired is that she visualises the hole from fairway to green but doesn’t have to worry about the impending doom that sighted players have to face such as hazards, rough and bunkers.
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