Fundraisers teed off under darkness in a recent Night Golf event at North Berwick Golf Club. Armed with glowsticks they helped to raise almost £1,000 for MND Scotland.
Fundraisers teed off under darkness in a recent Night Golf event at North Berwick Golf Club. Armed with glowsticks they helped to raise almost £1,000 for MND Scotland.
Now an annual fundraising fixture, golfers played the “Wee Course” at Scottish club, North Berwick, under the light of the moon and with luminous golf balls. For the past two successive years the Night Golf event has been held in aid of MND Scotland, which provides vital support to people living with Motor Neurone Disease.
The Night Golf fundraiser is a popular social event which sees members play a Texas Scramble format competition over six short, par-three holes. Following the charity competition, golfers headed to the clubhouse for a celebratory meal and prize-giving ceremony where the winning team was announced.
This year’s after-dark tournament proved as popular as ever and helped the club to raise a total of more than £2,000 for the chosen charity.
Elaine McBride, General Manager at the North Berwick Golf Club, congratulated everyone who took part in the charity competition saying: “We were delighted again to help raise money for this worthy cause. It is the third year we have staged the Night Golf fundraiser and the second year it has been in aid of MND Scotland.
“This year’s successful event raised over £800, bringing the overall total raised by the North Berwick Golf Club for MND Scotland to £2,102!”
The charity boost was welcomed by MND Scotland, which presented a certificate of thanks to the historic golf club and its generous golfers.
Iain McWhirter, MND Scotland's head of fundraising, said: "I’d like to thank everyone involved in making the North Berwick Golf Club event such a huge success.
"Motor Neurone Disease is a rapidly progressing terminal illness, with no effective treatment and no cure. It can rob someone of the ability to eat, drink, speak or breathe unaided. Thanks to fundraisers like this, we are able to provide vital financial, practical and emotional support to everyone affected by this devastating disease in Scotland, as well as fund ground-breaking research to take us a step closer to a cure."
