Thanks to a new training initiative to support qualification judges around the world, more golfers with disabilities will be able to enter tournaments and earn world ranking points.
Chicago’s Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, an international leader in physical rehabilitation and medical education, has teamed up with EDGA (European Disabled Golf Association) to create innovative digital training and resources to educate new qualifiers about their disabilities. It teaches how to accurately rate and classify a golfer.
In golf, it is common for golfers to play in different groups. The foursome included one golfer of his who used a prosthesis, another who had a traumatic brain injury, his third golfer who used a wheelchair, and four of his golfers who had strokes. will be Correct assessment of player impairments is essential to ensuring the fairest playing field.
Built on over 21 years of EDGA’s expertise in the field, the program always aims to ensure accuracy, fairness and transparency between evaluators and golfers. A key result is that the process is enhanced as individual players will have to travel less for appointments.
Newly qualified golfers can participate in a growing schedule of over 70 EDGA-badged international tournaments. All of these are supported by the World Rankings for Golfers with Disabilities (WR4GD) and governed by The R&A and USGA Regulations. golf.
Drawing on EDGA knowledge, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is developing this program as new golfers with disabilities seek to reach more and more possibilities. The purpose of EDGA and its partners is to help her 500,000 people with disabilities try the game.
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab created a 60-minute education and training program delivered online with additional (optional) face-to-face conference calls for medical assessors (new and established) to access learning and tools so that we can work together and share knowledge around the world. Earth, regardless of time zone. Working with EDGA’s 36 National Golf Federations, this development will increase the number of qualified eligibility judges and create a smoother process for golfers.
EDGA’s Director of Qualifications, Dr. Roger Hawkes, is leading the program. Roger says: .
“EDGA has long held clinical expertise in ensuring fairness, accuracy and transparency in the eligibility of golfers with disabilities. I needed a partner to lead me to a superior digital training program that a new cohort of qualifiers around the world could understand.We are delighted to be working with the team at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.His online medical training development skills We also appreciate their independent view of our work when it comes to eligibility.This partnership is an exciting opportunity to help more golfers with disabilities face a very difficult task. I turned it into an opportunity.”
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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Chicago Rehabilitation Research Institute (RIC)) provides physical medicine and rehabilitation for adults and children with the most severe and complex conditions, from traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries to stroke, amputation and cancer-related conditions. is the world leader in Impairment. Because of the quality of its care and her research, it has been named “No. 1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America” by US News & World Report every year since 1991.
The EDGA is an international non-profit organization made up of the 36 National Golf Federations of the world, providing advice, guidance and standards to major golf organizations such as the IGF, The R&A and the EGA.
