Leading the line for Team Wales at the Sport Parkinson’s Four Nations golf tournament is Welsh Rugby Union & Rugby League icon, Scott Quinnell. Hoping to bring home the prestigious trophy, Scott started properly playing golf when he was 21 on a local course in Wigan. “I used to only play 3 or 4 times…
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12:30-13:40 Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Match 1 12:30 England v Scotland Les Darvill John Forrister Jarlath Busby Andy McAulay Match 2 12:40 Wales v Ireland Norman Grainger Gary Derraven Alex Banahan Adrian Grey Match 3 12:50 England v Wales Charlie Appleyard Martin Turner Kevin Bywater Mark Williams Match 4 13:00 Ireland…
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Former Scotland international rugby union player, Rory Lawson, comes to the Sport Parkinson’s Four Nation golf tournament with golf being a part of his life since he was 7 years old. “I’d go and swing a stick at a relatively young age,” says Lawson. “My Papa on my Mum’s side, who was Bill McLaren (the…
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Gallery of all the Action on practice day at The Belfry
Check out our golfers, representing England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – taking on the Brabazon Course at the world renowned Belfry Course https://sportparkinsons.org/list/sp4ng21players/ You can leave them a message of good luck on their player page! Looking forward to seeing them in action on the course! For more information on the Sport Parkinson’s Four Nations…
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Former England international Rugby player Mike Tindall admits he is hoping to achieve victory whilst also raising money and awareness at Sport Parkinson’s Four Nations golf tournament. The 42-year-old, who made 75 appearances for England, was named as the England celebrity captain for the tournament which is being held at Brabazon golf course at The…
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Next Captain’s Chat we caught up with Alun Smith to talk to him about Golf, his diagnosis and how the Welsh team, are preparing, before he captains their Parkinson’s golfers at the Sport Parkinson’s Four Nations Golf Tournament in October. How are you feeling today? Yeah, feeling good and being the gym this morning, then…
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First up in Captain’s Chat we caught up with Dave Andrews to talk to him about Golf, life and challenges post PD diagnosis, before he captains England’s Parkinson’s golfers at the Sport Parkinson’s Four Nations Golf Tournament in October. How are you, Dave? I’m good, but I’ve just foolishly spent about an hour and a…
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It’s been my dream for the past two years to get a UK squad to play table tennis at the PingPongParkinson® (PPP), ITTF Parkinsons World Table Tennis Championships (PWTTC) which was achieved with great success after a whirlwind three week, three tournaments triumph. See my back story in the TT Blog posts from when I first started, pre-covid After contacting the…
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