Scottish golf course “honoured” to be picked for prestigious PGA event

Strathmore Golf Centre, one of Perthshire and Tayside’s best-known golf courses, is celebrating after being picked to host its first-ever national PGA event.

The PGA National Fourball Championship, with its £35,000 prize fund, will be played there from August 19-21.

A popular competition amongst club professionals, the event comprises 54 holes of strokeplay golf contested by 72 teams of qualifiers.

The first-ever staging of the championship in 1984 saw two of the north-west of England’s most prestigious clubs share the spoils, with Royal Birkdale’s Philip Posnett and PGA captain Peter Hanna both taking part.

Rarely held in Scotland, it was last staged in 1989 at Gullane Golf Club.

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The owner and director of operations at Strathmore Golf Centre, David Norman, remarked: “We are thrilled to have secured our first ever national PGA event. For the last four years, we’ve hosted the Scottish PGA’s 36-Hole Order of Merit Challenge, supported by Arnold Clark, whilst the last two years has seen us host a Scottish PGA Pro-Am event.

“The Scottish professionals attending these contests, many of whom had neither played nor heard of Strathmore previously, have been wholly impressed by what we have to offer: the award-winning course itself, the practice facilities, the great catering, the beautiful location, and, of course, our friendly and welcoming staff and members who really make all the difference. They are the heart and soul of this business.

“Hosting highly successful events for the Scottish PGA has been the stepping stone to being selected to host this, the first PGA Fourball Championship to be held in Scotland for 36 years. To say that we feel honoured, proud, and extremely grateful, would be a total understatement”.

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David Longmuir, manager of the PGA in Scotland, added: “The award-winning Strathmore Golf Centre has become a firm favourite of the PGA in Scotland, and we are indebted to David and his team for the way our professionals are welcomed and looked after at all the events we have had there in recent years.

“The clubhouse itself is a hugely popular destination with an established reputation for great food and the best service. It is described as the friendly place to play golf, and this is such an apt description.”

For more information, visit the Strathmore Golf Centre website.