Klaus-Hermann Bunte, then deputy headmaster and now headmaster of the Mamre Patmos special school in Bielefeld, and Bradley Kerr, pro trainer at the Bielefeld Golf Club (BGC), established a partnership in 2001 that still brings mentally disabled and non-disabled people together today. Since then, the mixed teams have regularly trained together on the course of the BGC. Inclusive tournaments are also part of the everyday life of the club, if currently at all possible due to the pandemic.
- Hörmann has been the main sponsor of the golf activities of the Mamre Patmos special school since 2006.
- Since 2007, there is a steady collaboration between the club and the Special Olympics World Games for people with intellectual disabilities.
- In the year 2012, the North-Rhine Westphalia golf training centre was established at the Bielefeld golf club. Bradley Kerr is head coach of the German team and the golf coordinator for the Special Olympics Germany.
- Members of the BGC golf team successfully participated in the World Games inDublin (2003), Beijing (2007), Athens (2011), Atlanta (2015) and Abu Dhabi (2019).
The group's successes at the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi
In 2019, the Bielefeld Golf Club sent seventeen-year-old Alexandra Reck, a student at the Mamre Patmos school, to the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates as a member of the German golf team. Under the supervision of the pro trainer of the Bielefeld Golf Club (BGC) Bradley Kerr and the headmaster of the Mamre Patmos special school in Bielefeld Klaus-Hermann Bunte, the athletes were trained beforehand at the Bielefeld Golf Club. The girl achieved a great success in the competition: she won the silver medal in her performance class Level 1 (Special Olympics golf rules). She was able to beat the competition from Poland, Spain and the United Arab Emirates with 231 points. Find out more.