DARWEN'S Andrew Gilford has won his sight category at the British Open Blind Golf Championship for the second year running.
The title continues the 26-year-old's phenomenal run since he joined the English Blind Golf Association in 1997.
The member at Shaw Hill, near Chorley, won the Chairman's Cup in just his second major EBGA event and followed that up with victory in the Open and the English Strokeplay Championship last summer.
Then this year Gilford, whose guide Clive Farley is also a member at Shaw Hill, preceded his Open Championship success by coming second in the Jack Kerfoot Memorial Cup and the Chairman's Cup and reaching the quarter-finals of the English Matchplay Championship.
Gilford, who has played golf since he was 14, lies fourth in the EBGA's Order of Merit table.
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