FORMER British women’s golf champion Vivien Saunders is fighting David Cameron’s seat at the General Election.

Vivien Saunders, pictured, who won the Women’s British Open in 1977, and was the first European to get a player’s card on the LPGA Tour in the USA, is standing to campaign for equal VAT rules for all sports clubs and organisations.

Private members clubs do not have to pay VAT, but commercial ones do, even though some private clubs still rake in big profits from visitor fees. Miss Saunders has taken her campaign to the EU and said she hopes to hand Mr Cameron the ‘red card’ on his sports tax policies.

She said: “David Cameron is keen on sports and should understand. It’s not fair on people trying to play sport or build sports facilities. Sport is the only industry where we have this disparity.

“A lot of sports are run by people who don’t understand the commercial side so they don’t really have a voice.”

Miss Saunders went on to coach England and then later Wales and Ireland national women’s teams. She also has a PhD in sports psychology and an LLM in sports’ law and tax, and is a solicitor by profession.

In 1997 she received the OBE for services to golf.

Miss Saunders, who lives in Huntington, said she will be in Witney armed with her party’s blue and yellow rosettes.

Other candidates are: Duncan Enright, Labour; Andy Graham, Liberal Democrat; Simon Strutt, UKIP; Stuart Macdonald, Green Party; Colin Bex, Wessex Regionalists;Deek Jackson, Land Party; Clive Peedell, National Health Action Party; Christopher Tompson, Independent; Nathan Handley, Independent; and Bobby Smith, Give Me Back Elmo’s.