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The ERIKA MALMBERG story
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In this edition of our EDGA Podcast, Sweden’s Erika Malmberg helps us to remember that although every individual is different, we can all share a love for playing golf.
The G4D Open at Woburn, England (May 10-12), with its connections to the famed Open Championship itself – was a historic affair. The tournament offered a week of firsts for many of the 80 competitors from 17 countries around the world.
Few present will have done more to spread awareness of the benefits, and also the personal challenges of golf and life, than Erika Malmberg.
This bright and erudite 38-year-old from Karlstad in Sweden decided to sacrifice her practice day on the eve of The G4D Open to deliver by invitation a presentation at the official Symposium on G4D (golf for the disabled), running alongside the event at Woburn, attended by assembled delegates from many of the world’s golfing nations.
Find out more on Erika’s story about how autism and ADD affects her, and indeed how golf helps Erika in return, in this podcast – which ends with her taking the very first shot of The G4D Open itself…
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