Four In A Row - UK Golfers Once Again Beat Their Australian Rivals
Under moody Welsh skies the UK Battle Back golf team once again beat their Australian counterparts to win the Clyde Pearce Memorial Cup at golf’s famous Celtic Manor.
Teams from both nations took part in The Clyde Pearce Cup - a Ryder Cup-style tournament for wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans.
Named after an Australian amateur golfer killed in World War One, it is competed for annually by the two teams - alternating location between the UK and Australia.
Bernie Broad, the UK captain spoke on the event's importance:
"It's great to make soldiers smile, laugh and thrive - because it puts the power back in me as well"
It was ex-British Army Corporal, Fiona Gray who got the UK side off to a winning score after the first match was halved.
The once Combined Service and County golf player was competing in her first event for some years due to injury.
"The last three years I haven't picked up a club, my clubs have been in storage. I couldn't swing it was too painful to do anything"
The Battle Back Golf programme was founded at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court back in 2009 and is a military initiative designed around using golf to support wounded, injured and sick personnel. Solider On is the Australian equivalent.
Once again the competition was fierce as both teams looked to tee off to glory, as ten matches took place over eighteen holes.
The UK side ultimately came out victorious. With a winning score of 13 and a half points, they defeated their Australian opponents who mustered six and a half points over the championship holes.
This is their fourth win in a row and the second time this event has been held on the Twenty Ten course, which famously hosted the Ryder Cup eight years ago.
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