Fightmaster_Cup
Fightmaster Cup
Team golf tournament
The Fightmaster Cup is a match play golf tournament involving players from North America and Europe. It is an event which involves golfers with the use of one arm only, with it being the first international tournament in history for one-armed golfers.[1][2] The Cup is named after Don Fightmaster, described by Time magazine as "an Arnold Palmer of the one-armed-golf world".[3]
The tournament is played between one-armed golfers from the North American One-Armed Golfer Association, formed in 2000, and the Society of One-Armed Golfers, formed in 1932 and based in Glasgow.[4] As a team event, the winner will be one of the two continental organisations and not individual players.
The inaugural meeting in 2008 was held just prior to the Ryder Cup, at The Cardinal Club in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville.[3][5] The new tournament's requirements on participants are still being debated and discussed, with the exclusion of "assisted players" being a prominent issue.[4]