One Of The Most Unique Golf Tournaments Is Levelling The Playing Field In Parasport
ParaSport Ontario will be hosting one of the most unique golfs tournaments ever held before, with five-player teams made up of professional golfers, celebrities, para athletes and corporate sponsors.
This tournament is a great opportunity to highlight how inclusive the sport can be and raise the profile of para golf to one day become a Paralympic sport.
Guests will have the opportunity to try many adaptive sports and meet the para athletes who play them, while also enjoying a great day on the greens.
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
August 2, 2018
TORONTO —ParaSport® Ontario will be hosting the first of its kind Celebrity Pro Am Golf
Tournament, with the support of PGA Canada and RBC, showcasing excellence in the sport of golf with
persons of all abilities encouraged to play together.
5-player teams consisting of a Paragolfer, a PGA Canada Pro, corporate players and a celebrity player.
Confirmed celebrity guests already include Greg Westlake, Canadian Paralympic ice sledge hockey
player and captain of Team Canada, Paul Rosen, former Canadian Paralympic ice sledge hockey goalie,
motivation speaker and disability advocate, and Todd . The winning team has the chance to move on and
compete for the RBC PGA Scramble National Championship Final Experience in Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia.
“Golf is a sport that is inherently inclusive,” says Jeff Tiessen, Executive Director of ParaSport® Ontario. “It’s a sport for everyone, and its remarkable to witness the excellence within the ParaGolf community-
be it players with limb loss, or players with functional or mobility impairment, or even golfers who are visually impaired or blind. This tournament will spotlight that excellence in a very unique way thanks not
only to our golfers, but our prestigious sponsors and partner family. We believe ParaGolf should be a
sport at the Paralympic Games. Our tournament will demonstrate why.”
The tournament takes place Monday, Aug. 20, 2018 at the beautiful Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham,
Ont., where guests will enjoy a game of golf with clinics run by world-renowned celebrity golfer, Todd
Keirstead, who specializes in trick shots and coaching athletes with disabilities in the game of golf.
ParaSport® Ontario will host sessions introducing people to different parasport games of sitting
volleyball, boccia ball and showcasing the many different versions of adaptive equipment.
About ParaSport® Ontario
ParaSport® Ontario is a non-profit organization providing support to all members of the disability
community – regardless of age or stage in life – to find, connect with, and participate in competitive and
recreational sport programs and activities of their choice to enhance physical function and quality of life.
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For more information, please contact:
Jeff Tiessen
Executive Director
[email protected]
416-426-7187 ext. 302
Joe Millage
Chair of Board
[email protected]
905-922-4676