Marathon man retires

IN July of this year in his last marathon, he raised €40,000 shared between Centro Contigo (which looks after children in La Linea) and Cancer Relief Gibraltar.

With Alan James, he organised the Jimmy Tarbuck Classic which has now been going for 40 years, raising over €1 million in Spain for handicapped children and latterly in Portugal, where the charity event is run by David’s brother Graham, for a children’s hospice in Faro.

He came up with the concept of playing a sponsored marathon literally going round the course over and over again and in 1993, David raised funds to buy an ambulance for the village of Guadiaro, playing 315 holes over 17 and a half rounds during daylight hours at the San Roque Golf Club.

Now he explained “age has caught up with me and although I’ll still be on the course regularly, I just have to stop the marathons as they now take too much out of me.“It has been a great 30 years in Spain and I am so pleased to have been able to raise so much money for the charities.”