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Announced to coincide with this week\u2019s inaugural G4D Open at Woburn, the new partnership will see EDGA provide expert advice, guidance and resources to The R&A and their affiliated national federations across the world, putting in place structures and programmes to increase the number of golfers with disabilities.<\/p>\r\n
The partnership, which represents a significant increase in The R&A\u2019s funding to EDGA until the end of 2025, will allow EDGA\u2019s eight-stage pathway to reach more countries.<\/p>\r\n
Player Pathway<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Aligned to the player pathway, eight stage builds industry capacity to support samplers, participants, and competitors. It aims to encourage more individuals with disabilities to try the sport, resulting in more golfers with disabilities and ultimately more events for golfers with disabilities and boost the number of players on the World Ranking for Golfers with Disability (WR4GD).<\/p>\r\n The agreement also includes EDGA support to The R&A for services at their professional championships \u2013 The Open, the AIG Women’s Open and the Senior Open presented by Rolex \u2013 as well as their leading amateur championships.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Positive Perception<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Kevin Barker, Director \u2013 Golf Development at The R&A, added, \u201cWith the inaugural G4D Open taking place this week, our new service provider agreement with EDGA continues the positive perception of golf.<\/span>\u201cWorking with EDGA, we are dedicated to ensuring that golfers with disabilities are integrated into the fabric of the sport through golf\u2019s leading bodies and national federations worldwide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EDGA have agreed a new three-year strategic relationship for it to become The R&A\u2019s service provider in the area of golf for the disabled (G4D).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgagolf.com\/web24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}