{"id":207505,"date":"2025-10-17T22:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207505\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:41:03","slug":"golfer-hopes-to-inspire-others-through-england-disability-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207505\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfer hopes to inspire others through England disability squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Lloyd plays by securing his golf club under his left arm and generating all the power through his body core.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve had my condition all my life, I was born with it, and I think that&#8217;s the advantage &#8211; I&#8217;ve got over a lot of disabled golfers who have been through trauma and have had to start all over again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the course of his career, he had had the chance to play at world-famous courses including the Royal Liverpool, Royal Birkdale and Golf National in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;My disability has given me some opportunities I possibly wouldn&#8217;t have had normally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sport has also allowed him to connect with people with similar disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been good for me, because when I got into golf I didn&#8217;t know anyone with the same condition as myself,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Lloyd plays by securing his golf club under his left arm and generating all the power through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-207505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}