I can offer a potential rival, though I'm not the claimant. In 1993 I won the championship of HASSRA, a civil service sports and social organisation. Contestants had won regional heats to qualify for the final (I was representing the London North region or something) and I'm pretty sure that the Scotland representative was from the Shetland Isles.Gordon Cadden wrote:On a minor note, I believe that Peter, and his wife Margaret (Wood), hold the long distance travel record, for playing in a tournament within the British Isles. In 1995, they travelled from their home in Morwenstow, Cornwall, to take part in a tournament at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Anyone care to challenge this record ?
The final took place in Bedford and I'm not at all sure that Shetland-Bedford is further than Cornwall-Lewis, but (a) a glance at the map suggests it's pretty close and (b) if somebody in Shetland played at a tournament much further south (or south-west) of that, or indeed somebody made the reverse journey to play in Shetland, they would presumably take the title.
(I'll neglect crow-flies v distance-travelled issues until somebody comes up with specific examples.)