SPORTING LEGEND SIR IAN BOTHAM LAUNCHES POWERPLAY GOLF BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP 2008 - Cricket hero Sir Ian Botham this week launched the first PowerPlay Golf British Championship - a competition to find the nation's best exponent of the new game described as 'Twenty20 cricket for golf'. More than 2,500 golf clubs in Britain have been invited to take part in championship, which is endorsed by Botham and former football star Les Ferdinand and will culminate in a grand final at The Belfry this autumn. Any golf club can stage a qualifying event, with its winner going through to play in one of nine regional finals. The top three golfers from each of those will fight to become the first ever PowerPlay Golf British Champion on the Belfry’s famous Brabazon Course on October 14-15. Botham agreed to become the face of the championship after discussions with Peter McEvoy, the co-creator of PowerPlay Golf - the 9-hole game which uses two flags on each green.