Tonight, on From the Board Room to the Locker Room guest Charlene Pienaar, Blind Women’s World Champion.
Charlene Pienaar became South Africa’s first woman disabled world champion at the 2023 ISPS Handa IBGA World Blind Championships at Milnerton Golf Club on Friday, 31 March.
A mere two days after she lifted the Women’s title in the South African Blind Open, South Africa’s Pienaar was in ascendancy again – this time challenging for a first world-title in the B3 Division in the international tournament at the same venue. Sleeping on an overnight lead of six shots, the petite Benoni golfer withstood the challenge posed by a vicious South-westerly wind, gusting up to 35km per hour throughout the round, and held off Austrian Karin Becker to prevail by five strokes. She hopes her victory will afford more disabled women the opportunity to play the game.
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