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Wed 08 Aug 2008A different spin on the game of golf
TO THE uninitiated, blind golf sounds like an impossibility: how can a sport that relies on sharp eyesight be open to those who are visually impaired?
But at the World Blind Golf Championships, which ended yesterday at Belvoir Park Golf Club in Belfast, more than 50 international competitors - including current world champions Jenny McCallum from Australia and Simon Cookson from England, as well as the world's oldest blind golfer, Jim Watt from Scotland, aged 92 - proved the doubters wrong.
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