Legendary Blind Golf Hong Kong & Taiwan 2006

Legendary Golf Academy is bringing blind golf to Hong Kong, for the benefit of the game and the good of disadvantaged members of the local community.

A Blind Golf awareness-raising exhibition match was held at the Discovery Bay Golf Club on Tuesday, April 18, with 10 of the world’s leading blind golfers and Hong Kong’s leading professional golfers, supported by many of the community’s leading celebrities and a variety of companies sharing Legendary’s commitment to the cause. Followed on April 19 by an on-range clinic for Hong Kong blind students selected by the Hong Kong Society for the Blind, conducted by the 10 international blind golfers.

The exhibition match marked the beginning of a coaching program whereby Legendary Golf Academy will provide free tuition to 10 selected blind golfers and their sighted coaches and help establish a Hong Kong chapter of the International Blind Golfers Association.

It is the intention Legendary Golf Academy to broaden provision of the game of golf to help develop the industry in the region and improve accessibility to special groups and under privileged people.

To begin to facilitate the above Legendary will immediately:

  1. Organize and operate certain Awareness Events as promotional activities;
  2. Introduce a welfare golf programme for the visually impaired / blind at each of its Legendary Golf Academy venues;
  3. Facilitate the formation of a Hong Kong Blind Golfers’ Association in cooperation with the Hong Kong Society for the Blind and the International Blind Golfers Association.