Sebas Lorente ended the year in the best way possible, topping the European Disabled Golf Association’s rankings in the wheelchair category. Competing in the final event of the EDGA’s 2016 calendar, the Algarve Open, the Catalan golfer finished joint second in the overall stableford category, won the main prize for wheelchair participants and sealed top place in the European rankings for his category.
For 2017, he is looking forward to the first event of the new season, the Spanish Open at Málaga’s Parador course in February, and the European Challenge for Wheelchair Golfers, to be held from 24 to 27 April at Golf Terramar in Sitges (Barcelona).
Born in 1966, Lorente suffered a car accident in 1983 that left him paraplegic. Twenty years later, thanks to disabled golfers courses organised by the Sergio García Foundation together with Deporte y Desafío (Sport & Challenge) he returned to a sport he had played as a child. “I started playing golf again with my son and it was the best decision. Golf has returned a part of me I thought I had lost.” A law graduate, he currently works as a motivational speaker at company conferences.
