Zohar Sharon
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Zohar Sharon is a blind Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

er who has won titles in Israel as well as Europe. He lost his sight in a chemical accident while serving in the Israel Defense Forces
Israel Defense Forces
The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal , are the military forces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel...

. In 2003, he won the World Invitational blind golf tournament in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. His first real domestic success came in a doubles tournament in which he won with a top Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

n golfer, Israel's only Ethiopian golfer, Asher Isso
Asher Isso
Asher Iyasu is an Israeli golfer who was the first golfer to win the Caesaria country club's tournament from the Beta Israel community. His first real success came in a doubles tournament in which he won with a top blind golfer, Israel's only blind golfer, Zohar Sharon. The second was with the son...

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