Lawson at home if he is getting a fairway go
GOLD Coast-based golf pro Deyen Lawson has won $79,000 during his first fling on the European Tour, a $250,000 BMW for a hole-inone and now a $40 bar tab.
That’s a great career surge over the past five months and kudos are deserved at his Surfers Paradise Golf Club base.
Members are rapt that Lawson still tees it up with them as he did in last Friday’s competition when he had nine birdies in a hot nine-under-par 62.
That’s hard work off a plusfive handicap to win $40.
Lawson will be one of the headliners at Lakelands on Thursday and Friday for the $150,000 GC Celebrity ProAm organised by 1990 major winner Wayne Grady.
Dan Nisbet, Dimi Papadatos, Marcus Fraser, Andrew Dodt, Matt Griffin, Michael Sim, Adam Blyth, Ash Hall, golfer-turned-commentator Ewan Porter and ageless Peter Senior are in the field.
Mat Rogers, Steve Menzies and Chris Walker (rugby league), golfing battler Allan Border, Ian Healy and Greg Ritchie (cricket), ex-ironwoman Hayley Bateup and Casey Stoner (MotoGP) are among the celebrity starters.
The powerful fundraising goal for the event and a 400strong gala dinner is to boost the Ashton’s Place foundation.
The foundation provides funds and support to Gold Coast families so they can access early intervention services for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Grady’s noble aim is to build the event into a 72-hole tournament on the Australasian tour so it’s a charity juggernaut like events on the PGA tour in the US.
Spectators are welcome at Lakelands, the Jack Nicklausdesigned course which is in top conditions after recent rain.