GFS gets into the swing for Ryder Cup challenge

As the best golfers from Europe and the US prepare to do battle in South Wales this weekend, Global Freight Solutions (GFS) has teed up its own bit of Ryder Cup glamour. A GFS team is taking on Global Financial in a charity challenge match at Cowdray Park Golf Club in Midhurst to coincide with the first day of the bigger event.

Both firms have enlisted the help of former European Ryder Cup players Paul Way and Steve Richardson with all proceeds going to support a charity working to improve living standards in Africa and a local hospice.

Global Freight Solutions’ CEO, Martin Day, said both firms were hoping to benefit the charities as a result of a series of coincidences.

“When we moved to our new offices in Billingshurst, we genuinely had no idea that the building was already occupied by a company with a similar name.

“When we subsequently discovered that it too was a member of Cowdray Park, we decided that a golf challenge would not only be a way of developing a good neighbourly relationship but a chance to help others.”

Way was one of the European team which beat the US at The Belfry in 1985 to win the Ryder Cup for the first time in 28 years. Richardson was among the cream of European golf beaten by the US in a bitterly-contested event at Kiawah Island in 1991, which later became known as ‘The War on the Shore’.