Stroke of genius for hearing-impaired golfers
TELLING a beginner how to correct their golf stance is a challenge at the best of times, but imagine trying to teach golf to someone who cannot hear what you are saying.
Cairns Golf Club hosted a special clinic for the hearingimpaired yesterday, in the lead-up to a major charity fundraising event for Deaf Services Queensland next month.
Club pro Anton Booy took on the challenge of coaching Drew Harper, using an interpreter and videos filmed on his iPad to teach Mr Harper the perfect stroke.
“By the end of it, he was starting to hit the 100m mark, which was great for someone who had never played golf before,” Mr Booy said.
The Disability Action Week Golf Day, consisting of a ninehole, four-ball ambrose competition, is being held at the Cairns Golf Club on September 14.
People with a disability, service providers and the general public will be invited to participate in this event. A NEW indigenous work of art at Edmonton’s Porton Barracks will be unveiled tomorrow.
The Australian Army’s 51st Battalion, The Far North Queensland Regiment, will host the presentation at the Battalion’s headquarters alongside artist Elverina Johnson.
The artwork was commissioned by the unit to showcase a reinterpretation of the Battalion’s insignia of a kookaburra holding a snake in its mouth.
Ms Johnson, representatives of the Yindinji and Gunggandji community will attend the unveiling at 10am, along with officers and soldiers of the Cairns unit.
The 51st Battalion has a long history of embracing indigenous skills.
The unit has embraced traditional patrol, pathfinding and outback survival skills used by Far North Queensland traditional owners in a partnership between the two bodies.
The artwork symbolises the relationship between the Army and indigenous people of the Far North.
The highly anticipated unveiling will conclude with a morning tea to celebrate the artwork.