Karin Becker: IBGA Director

Austria: Chairman

Chair of the new Membership Growth Committee

IBGA Director, Karin Becker Karin was born in 1972 in Austria and became visually impaired at the age of twenty-one.

She studied architecture and is now working in the management of a company which organizes the provision of Personal Assistance for people with disabilities.

Karin started playing golf while visually impaired and had her first contact with blind golf in 2010 and became a member of the IBGA in 2013.

Since 2014 Karin was the national secretary of Austrian Blind Golf.

For many years Karin is leading the blind and visual impaired committee at the Austrian golf association and trying to make golf more attractive to people with sight problems.

Karin participated in the 2022 Vision Cup tournament as a Rest of the World team member held at the prestigious TPC Sawgrass and participated at the world championship in Japan, Italy, and South Africa, where she competed for the Ladies net over all awards.