Nick Edmund, a four-time head and neck most cancers survivor and founding father of Global Golf4 Cancer (GG4C), is making ready to undertake an epic problem for charity this month and carry his golf golf equipment from Historical Olympia to Costa Navarino, situated in Messinia, southwest Peloponnese.
With the Ionian Sea accompanying him for a lot of his 93km ‘golf stroll’, Edmund’s journey on foot from November 7-16 will take him from the 776BC birthplace of the Olympics, by way of the ‘4 Ks’ – Krestena, Kakovatos, Kalo Vero and Kyparissia – to Filiatra and Marathοpoli, and eventually on to Costa Navarino and the Navarino Hills web site, on the world’s first Worldwide Olympic Academy Golf Course.
On reaching his last vacation spot, he’ll play the fourth gap with two-time Masters champion José María Olazábal, the designer of the par-72 format which opened in 2022. The pair will then symbolically increase the World Golf4 Most cancers ‘4-Flag’ in honour of most cancers fighters worldwide, with the flag flying on the inexperienced of the par-four gap during the Olazábal & Mates Charity Professional-Am match, which is going down from November 17-18.
The occasion gives golf followers with the unique alternative for an up-close and intimate expertise with Olazábal and a set of his skilled mates together with fellow Spanish golf legend Miguel Ángel Jiménez, with the pro-am being performed on the 2 new programs at Navarino Hills that had been designed by Olazábal.
Explaining the particular significance of this stroll, Edmund stated: “Since World Golf4 Most cancers’s mission is to encourage the golf group to ‘decide up the baton’ and help most cancers fighters and most cancers preventing organisations in no matter approach attainable, I can’t think about a extra inspiring or applicable place to assist convey this than Historical Olympia and its adjoining panorama. Simply as Olympians have the chance to hold a torch, so golfers can fly the flag for a trigger. I could also be somewhat biased, however I’m not positive if there’s a extra essential trigger than the battle towards most cancers.”
Peter Walton, CEO of IAGTO, a founding companion of World Golf4 Most cancers, stated: “IAGTO has supported GG4C since its inception, and we consider within the huge affect the worldwide {golfing} group could make to assist carry cures nearer for a illness that impacts one in 4 of us. I’ve misplaced depend of the huge distances Nick has lined, each ‘golf-walking’ and travelling all through the world these previous six years to assist unfold that message, and this ‘Greek Odyssey’ is one more milestone. The help of José María Olazábal and three-time IAGTO award profitable Costa Navarino is great, and enormously appreciated.”
