UK Celebrity Golf Tournament Wednesday 8Th August 2012 All the Money Raised from This Tournament Will Help Save Lives in Africa in Association With
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UK Celebrity Golf Tournament th Wednesday 8 August 2012 All the money raised from this tournament will help save lives in Africa In association with About our tournament…. Taking place on August 8th at Selsdon Park Golf Club in Surrey. Registration Will begin at 11:00 am followed by a brunch for all players. The tournament will start at 1:00pm, all groups playing a 4 ball. All proceeds will be donated to Tackle Africa. www.tackleafrica.org Why our tournament is different…. The tournament will be a fun and festive event while maintaining a competitive atmosphere for our players. This will feature a number of mini-games providing players an opportunity to win prizes with an overall prize for the winning team. With an outstanding celebrity line up players and sponsors alike will have interaction on the course in a relaxed and professional atmosphere, and get a chance to meet with some of the best football players and celebrity's to date. There will also be a raffle and charity auction over dinner with some incredible prizes up for grabs – bring your wallets! About our tournament host…. Selsdon Park Hotel & Golf Club is a traditional, mature parkland golf course cut from the original thick forest that dominated this part of Surrey when the course was first designed by JH Taylor, five times winner of the British Open, in 1929. The course was fully renovated between January and April 2007 and today, the elevated greens and fairways lined with countless sycamore, beech, oak, silver birch and cedar trees, all make Selsdon a truly memorable course to play. In total the course has five par 5 holes, four of which measure over 500 yards. This need not be an intimidating experience, all but one of the nine par 4 holes are less than 400 yards and two of them are under 300 yards, so whether you are a handicapper or scratch player, Selsdon Park Hotel & Golf Club will give you the opportunity to dust down all of your clubs! The course stretches 6473 yards, a challenging par 73 and takes around four and a half hours to complete. What we do involves two of the most important things in Africa: HIV and Football. Almost everyone in Africa is affected by HIV and AIDS. Young people are particularly vulnerable. Football in Africa is incredibly popular and a great way of engaging with young people. We use football coaching to educate young Africans about sexual health, relationships and HIV. Specifically we teach young people how to avoid getting HIV, how to live with HIV if you have it, and how to support others to do the same. All our education is done on the pitch through unique interactive football drills, so young people enjoy, understand, learn and remember. We train African coaches, schoolteachers and youth leaders to do this coaching so that our work is African led and nobody is completely dependant on us. We call these people ‘multipliers’ as they are able to multiply our impact by training others We have a network of trained multipliers in the 6 countries highlighted on the map. Ian Wright Steve Sidwell David Stockdale Confirmed Han Segers Neil Ruddock Tony Finnigan Celebrity’s: Simon Davies Mark Bright Leah Newman About our Celebrity guests: Neil Ruddock (born 9 May 1968), nicknamed Razor Ruddock is an English former professional footballer, actor and television personality. As a player he played as a central defender from 1986 to 2003. He made his debut at Millwall (having been associated with the club since age 13), and he had a long career playing for Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton, Liverpool, West Ham, Crystal Palace, and finally a short-lived spell as a player/coach at Swindon Town (working under Director of Football Roy Evans in a two-tier managerial structure). He was capped once by England. Mark Abraham Bright (born 6 June 1962) is an English footballer who is now a sports pundit and BBC London's sport presenter, as well as a coach at Crystal Palace. He made the move from non-league Leek Town to Port Vale in 1981, where he remained for three years before he signed with Leicester City. In 1986 he transferred to Crystal Palace, where he would score 92 league goals over the next six years. Joining Sheffield Wednesday in 1992, he stayed with the club for five years before moving to Swiss side FC Sion in 1997, following a short loan stay at Millwall. He returned to England later in 1997 to play for Charlton Athletic, before he announced his retirement in 1999. A forward, he scored 167 goals in 463 league games throughout an 18-year career in the Football League. Johannes ("Hans") Segers (born 30 October 1961) is a Dutch goalkeeper, who spent most of his playing career in England. In June 2011, new Fulham manager Martin Jol brought Segers in as his goalkeeping coach, the pair having worked together at Tottenham previously David Adam Stockdale (born 20 September 1985) is an English footballer who plays for Fulham as a goalkeeper. Stockdale started his career with the Huddersfield Town youth system before joining York City's youth system in 2000, where he became a trainee in 2002. He made his first team debut on the last day of the 2002–03 season. He established himself in the team during the 2004–05 season and in 2006, following loan spells at Wakefield-Emley and Worksop Town, was released by the club. He moved to Darlington and in his second season with the club played in the play-offs. He signed for Premier League side Fulham for an undisclosed fee in 2008. He has also been called up to the England squad. Ian Edward Wright, MBE (born 3 November 1963, Woolwich, London) is a former English professional footballer turned television and radio personality and currently part-time first-team coach of Milton Keynes Dons. Wright enjoyed success with London clubs Crystal Palace and Arsenal, spending six years with the former and seven years with the latter. With Arsenal he has lifted the Premier League title and both major domestic trophies, and the European Cup Winners Cup. He played 581 league games, scoring 387 goals for seven clubs in Scotland and England and earned 33 caps for the English national team. He also played in the Premier League for West Ham United and Nottingham Forest, the Scottish Premier League for Celtic and the Football League for Burnley. After retiring from the game he has been active in the media, usually in football related TV and radio shows. His son, Bradley and stepson, Shaun are both professional footballers Simon Davies (born 23 October 1979) is a Welsh footballer who plays for Fulham. His favoured position is the right side of midfield. Davies made his debut for Wales in a World Cup qualifier against Ukraine on 6 June 2001. Davies played for Wales 58 times and scored six goals. His best performance for his country came on 16 October 2002 when he scored the team's opening goal in a shock 2–1 victory over Italy. He announced his retirement from international football on 9 August 2010. Leah Newman was born in Hastings on the 4th December. Growing up with two older brothers, she was always the tomboy, playing football and hanging around with the boys. but at the age of sixteen she grew her hair long and began to take an interest in fashion. After being told by many people that she should be a model she decided to give it a try and launched her modelling career by winning the Miss Hastings title in 1999, twenty years after her mother had won the same title, and again in 2000. She was crowned Miss Euro Sussex in 2001, followed soon after by the Miss Euro Region title. She joined a top London agency and was soon modelling jewellery worth £3 million for a New Bond Street jewellers. Her career soon took off and she has been published in major national newspapers and magazines and has appeared on television, in pop videos, in store publicity hoardings (Marks and Spencer, Virgin Megastores etc) and the Max Power Live shows. She has modelled for many top photographers in such exotic locations as Bermuda, the Canary Islands, Majorca and the French Riviera and she was Playboy magazine "Girl of the Month" for August 2004. Steven James "Steve" Sidwell (born 14 December 1982) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Fulham in the Premier League. His previous clubs include Arsenal, Reading, Chelsea and Aston Villa Tony Finnigan is a retired English professional footballer. He was born in Wimbledon on the 17th October 1962. After retirement he became a player’s agent in partnership with Ian Wright and Andy Gray. He is also the partner of Stan Collymore in a television production, Tony is now a part of the Kentaro Group who specialises primarily in the acquisition and distribution of the international television rights of national football federations, football clubs and leagues, its global expertise extends to premium football event management and sponsorship, where it also represents boxing properties. Kentaro currently have a team of in-house agents, all licensed by national associations, who together have a wealth of experience within the player management business. They are fully supported by Kentaro’s marketing team, which specialises in the endorsement and advertising rights for any type of sports personality. In February 2009, Kentaro sealed a corporate partnership deal with Jerome Anderson’s renowned Sport Entertainment and Media Group (SEM). As one of Britain’s leading sports management agencies, SEM represents over 150 professional footballers and clubs in Europe’s top leagues, and top media personalities, having worked in the past & present with and on behalf of international superstars such as Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United & England), John Obi Mikel (Chelsea & Nigeria), Thierry Henry (Arsenal/Barcelona & France), Ian Wright MBE (Arsenal/West Ham/Celtic & England), Charlie Nicholas Arsenal/Celtic & Scotland), and football clubs including Barcelona, Juventus, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City and West Ham United, to name but a few.