EVAN MATHIAS – INDIANA I’m beyond excited to be a part of The Cairns Cup! I want to thank Kim Moore for giving me this opportunity to play for the U.S. Cairns Cup team next year! I was born without legs, so having a disability is just my life. I learned to walk on prosthetics…
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My name is Rutger Pranger and I am so honoured to be asked to join team Europe for The Cairns Cup 2024. I live with my wife Joke in the Netherlands in Enschede, a town near the German border. We are happy and have a 33-year-old son and 31-year-old twin daughters. I’m also a proud…
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__________________ Kevin Holland is selected for Team USA for the second consecutive Cairns Cup. Team USA Player Kevin Holland Golf has always been Kevin game. “I’ve always loved the game of the golf, I would go out and chip in the backyard growing up.” he says. He works to improve every day, but as his…
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Tineke Loogman has been busy as Captain selecting players for team Europe Iain Millar from England and Liliane Cambré from Belgium being the latest to join a strong European team. There was a lot of applications for 2024 in Cherry Creek with Captain Tineke along with her vice-captains have following the strict player selection criteria in their…
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FRANK SORBER -GERMANY Frank was born in 1961 in Erfurt/East Germany, together with his second wife he has 6 children, 8 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild that keep him extremely busy. He lives near of Wuerzburg in the North of Bavaria with his wife Elizabeth. Frank said, “I have played golf since 2011 at the…
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CHARLIE APPLEYARD Tineke Loogman – European team Captain for The Cairns Cup 2024 – is starting to build her team! Tineke can now announce Charlie Appleyard, who plays off 9.2 at Wentworth Club in Virginia Waters will be representing her team Charlie was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016…. Parkinson’s is an awful degenerative neurological condition…
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Interview with Kim Moore USA Team Captain 2024 Interview with Kim Moore USA team captain for The Cairns Cup 2024 in Michigan. Kim is Western Michigan’s women’s golf coach and in 2022 she won the inaugural United States Golf Association tournament for golfers with disabilities at Pinehurst, North Carolina. This year she travelled to the…
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CAIRNS CUP UPDATE FROM OUR CEO In these uncertain times, the directors have been faced with ongoing problems and worries caused by the COVID PANDEMIC. We have been in discussions with our host resorts, sponsors, and stakeholders as to how best we can proceed with DISABILITIES GOLF’s PRIMARY Team Event. We have four major issues…
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Important announcement In these unprecedented times the committee were concerned that the 2020 Cairns Cup would be unable to go ahead for many reasons that was out of our control. We were also unsure when travel from Europe and from the USA would commence again, plus many of our sponsors were going through their own…
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