A Woodford-based golfer will be taking on the best America has to offer when he travels to the States for an all expenses paid tournament in June.Totally blind Ron Tomlinson has won through to represent England in a New York golf tournament. He qualified for the Ken Venturi Guiding Eyes Classic by beating three other top B1 (totally blind) golfers in the play-off at Darenth Valley Golf Club in Kent.He becomes the sole English representative to travel to the States to take on eighteen other B1 golfers in America in the Corcoran Cup which is to be played on the Mount Cisco course.This year will be the fourth time Ron has travelled to this prestigious event and he'll be hoping to bring back the title this time.Following the main competition, Ron will also take part in a 'Texas Scramble' event where teams will be raising money for the Guiding Eyes Guide Dog Association.Ron who plays at Chingford Golf Club has a busy schedule coming up, as he is in action in the Ingestry Knockout Tournament in the Midlands in April, before attempting to win the Sir Colin Cowdrey Trophy for the third time in a row later in the same month.Ron's season has just teed off but he has already clinched another trip to America, this time to Phoenix by finishing second in the B1 catergory qualifiers for the World Championships, which take place in September.

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