A WEST Somerset College teacher is all set for the Speed-golf World Championships in Chicago after he finished fourth in the British championship in August.
Steve Jeffs, a PE teacher and manager of the sixth form football academy at the college, will be among competitors from all over the world at the championships on October 17 and 18 at The Glen Club golf course.
Speed-golf is played like regular golf but contestants run round the course instead of walk, with the score added to their time. Steve runs 18 holes in around 50 minutes.
“I competed in the British championships for the last three years, and for the last two years my scores were good enough to qualify me for the world championships,” he said.
He and his family have been fundraising furiously to enable him to get him to the US, with crowdfunding, family fun days organised over the last six months and a jazz cream tea with raffles that his wife and mother-in-law arranged.
“I feel pretty good and I’m as fit as I’ve ever been,” said Steve.
During the school holidays, he was running nine holes three times a week, as well as 18 at weekends, and his personal best is now 19 minutes, 35 seconds – down from 29 minutes.