Sentence examples for blind golfer from inspiring English sources

"I had never even heard of such a thing as a blind golfer," he said on Sunday.

An 85-year-old legally blind golfer from southern Arizona made a hole in one this week on a par-3 course.

Acknowledged for years as the world's best blind golfer -- his low score as a blind golfer was a remarkable 74 at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in 1982 when he shot in the 70's on four consecutive days -- Browne missed this week's tournament because he is recovering from rotator cuff surgery.

I spoke with Ron Plath, who was inducted into the U.S. Blind Golf Association's Hall of Fame in 2012, and asked him whether he had ever known of a blind golfer with the yips.

"I sometimes think a coach, like mine, Kevin Sullivan, can be 90 or 95percentt of your game as a blind golfer," Bill McMahon said on Tuesday while playing host to his own annual charity tournament at Shorehaven, which has raised more than $100,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.

Donor golfers will be paired to play with blind golfers, in the largest fund-raiser of the year for Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a Yorktown-based group that is the leading trainer of seeing-eye dogs.

Today, there are more than 400 registered blind golfers from about 16 national associations around the world, according to the international group.

Venturi engaged in many charitable endeavors while working as a broadcaster, most notably the Guiding Eyes Classic, an event in New York that included blind golfers and raised more than $6 million to provide dogs for the blind.

Thinking about that snooker player, and about Johnny Miller's red dot and Hank Haney's hat brim, made me wonder about blind golfers — who are able to play because a caddie-like assistant lines up every shot.

He said that he hadn't and, later, called me back to say that he'd asked several other blind golfers, in this country and in Europe, and nobody he'd talked to could think of anyone.

Part of a growing circuit that now includes tournaments in Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan, the 16 players in the Venturi Guiding Eyes Classic are among the best blind golfers in the world.