About Blind Golf

Blind Golf proves that blind and partially sighted can enjoy and benefit from one of the world’s most compelling and hardest to master pursuits.

A blind golf player uses a sighted coach or guide to give verbal information about each hole, help with club selection, and to place the club head directly behind the ball. From then on it’s down to the blind golfers’ sense of touch and sound, and above al, their swing.

Golf is played strictly to the Rules of Golf produced by the game’s governing association, the Royal and Ancient (R&A). The R&A has published "A Modification of the Rules of Golf for Golfers with Disabilities" which allows blind golfers to ground their club in a hazard, touch the playing surface and receive aid from a partner.

Competition among blind golfers is intense, with players divided into classes determined by the golfer’s level of sight (B1, B2, B3).