30 THE WORLD OF GOLFING
LA MANGA CLUB
Reds To Play Off Whites For Charity At
La Manga Club
La Manga Club
Three of Liverpool FC’s living legends
will be among the celebrities supporting
a UK children’s charity when they tee up
in a fundraising tournament at La Manga
Club, in Murcia, Spain, this week.
Former European Cup winners Mark
Lawrenson, Ronnie Whelan and Alan
Kennedy – who scored the winning
goals in the 1981 and 1984 European
Cup finals – are playing in the Caudwell
Children Celebrity Golf Classic, on
September 26 and 27.
Previous celebrity captains have
included former England footballer, now
Strictly Come Dancing contestant, David
James, and TV presenters Ant & Dec
and Ben Shephard, and they’ve been
joined, down the years, by many other
celebrities from the worlds of sport,
stage and screen. “It’s for a great cause because Caudwell
Children has just launched a specialist
sports equipment programme that
provides disabled children with
the sports equipment they need to
participate, which is simply fantastic.
Five-time title winner Lawrenson, who
like his former manager Kenny Dalglish,
is a regular visitor to La Manga Club,
explained: “It will be fabulous meeting
up with lads again and it’s going to be
a really enjoyable couple of days. La
Manga is arguably the world’s best
sports resort and the golf courses are
superb. “Every child deserves the opportunity to
play sport as it’s vital for their physical
health and mental wellbeing, so I’m
delighted to be supporting the charity.”
Established in 2000, by entrepreneur
and philanthropist John Caudwell, the
Staffordshire-based Caudwell Children
charity provides practical and emotional