The Algarve launches "Golf4all" with new disabled golf open

The Algarve, Europe’s leading golf destination, will mark the launch of its new ‘golf4all’ campaign by hosting a new international disability golf tournament in November.

Europe’s leading impaired golfers will compete in the European Disabled Golfers Association (EDGA) Algarve Open – where the winner of the 2014 EDGA Premier Series Order of Merit will be crowned – at Pestana Vila Sol, November 18-23.

Among those players scheduled to appear are Cédric Lescut of Belgium, who turned pro in 2002 after having the lower part of his right leg amputated; Manuel de los Santos of the Dominican Republic & France, who before having his left leg amputated was a top-level baseball player, and Spain’s first ever wheelchair golfer, Sebas Lorente.

Also taking part are Monique Kalman, a Dutch paragolfer who has also won Paralympic gold in tennis; former Paralympic skiers Nino Ouraboh and Martijn Wijsman; and French amateur Charles-Henri Quélin who has +2 handicap and plays with a fused right arm.

The event will be a centerpiece of the Algarve Tourism Association’s (ATA) new ‘golf4all’, which seeks to showcase the Algarve as a fully-inclusive tourism attraction for golfers of all ages and abilities and for tourists from across the globe.

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