Wednesday 30 August 2023
Bernard Gallacher has spent several years campaigning for more defibrillators on golf courses. Now he wants you and your club to do the same Our Drive for Defibs campaign is brought to you in association with Motocaddy Three-time Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher has become the latest golfer to join our Drive for Defibs campaign and is calling on every golf club to install...
Tuesday 29 August 2023
How one group of friends and four golf days have helped fund two defibrillators and educate thousands of youngsters on how to perform CPR. Our Drive for Defibs campaign is brought to you in association with Motocaddy Ally Fleming never expected to become one of the British Heart Foundation’s biggest and most loyal supporters. He had never even run a charity event until...
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Royal Dornoch has become the first golf club in the world to install life-saving defibrillators across its fleet of golf buggies. Our Drive for Defibs campaign is brought to you in association with Motocaddy The Scottish club had previously installed a defibrillator on the wall of its clubhouse and halfway hut but has now fitted all five golf buggies with first aid kits...
Friday 29 July 2022
The life-saving intervention of a heroic greenkeeper has inspired North Berwick Golf Club to install a second defibrillator Our Drive for Defibs campaign is brought to you in association with Motocaddy Liam Nicholson doesn’t consider himself to be a hero. But Gordon Moodie, a member at North Berwick Golf Club, says he owes his life to the quick-thinking greenkeeper who came to...
Friday 29 July 2022
Aged 18, Guy Gowan’s life was saved by a sports therapist, an off-duty nurse and a golf club’s defibrillator Our Drive for Defibs campaign is brought to you in association with Motocaddy The first thing you should know about a sudden cardiac arrest is that it can happen to anyone at any time. Only one in 10 survives an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest,...
Friday 20 May 2022
Meet the man who inspired our Drive for Defibs campaign by hitting golf shots from John O’Groats to Land’s End and training 30,000 people in life-saving CPR on the way Our Drive for Defibs campaign is brought to you in association with Motocaddy David Sullivan is remarkably upbeat for a man who lost 942 golf balls and accidentally left his 7-iron at...
Wednesday 9 March 2022
As part of our Drive for Defibs campaign, we met Steve Ross, a golfer whose life was saved by the quick thinking of friends and strangers on the course in 2021. Our Drive for Defibs campaign is brought to you in association with Motocaddy One moment Steve Ross was searching for his ball in the rough at Cleethorpes Golf Club in Lincolnshire. The next...