Carnoustie cut-price offer for over-50s

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Carnoustie has recently been announced as the venue for both the 2010 Senior Open Championship presented by MasterCard and the 2011 Ricoh Women’s British Open and to celebrate this double accolade the Carnoustie Golf Links Management Committee is offering women and men over 50 a special 4 for 2 tee time deal on its Championship course on specified dates this September and October.
Under the terms of the deal, four women, four males over 50, or a combination of both, can purchase a tee time for just £260 – a 50% saving on the normal price.
The offer is available from September 1st to October 31st subject to availability.
“We are delighted to have been selected as the venue for both the 2010 Senior Open Championship and the 2011 Ricoh Women’s Open Championship and look forward to welcoming the world’s leading Senior and Women golfers over the next couple of years,” said Graeme Duncan, General Manager of the Carnoustie Golf Links Management Committee.
“It’s a great honour to be asked to stage two such prestigious Championships and to celebrate we thought it would be appropriate to offer women and seniors this unique one-off deal.
“The deal is open to four men over 50, four women of any age, or any combination of both. All you have to do is to call our Reservations team on 01241 802270 to select an available tee time. Unfortunately, for administrative reasons, this offer is not available to golfers purchasing a tee time on line at www.carnoustiegolflinks.co.uk.”
The announcement that the 2010 Senior Open Championship and the 2011 Ricoh Women’s British Open will be played at Carnoustie means its Championship course will join Turnberry and Royal Lytham & St Annes as the only three British courses to have hosted not just the Open Championship, but its Senior and Women’s equivalent as well.
The 2010 Senior Open Championship presented by MasterCard will be staged at Carnoustie for the first time on July 22-25, 2010. It becomes the ninth different venue to be used for the Championship, including five other Open venues, Turnberry, Royal Lytham & St Annes, Royal Portrush, Muirfield and Royal Troon. The other courses to be used were Royal Aberdeen, Royal County Down and Sunningdale where this year’s Championship was won by American, Loren Roberts, after a play-off against compatriot, Fred Funk, and Ireland ’s Mark McNulty. The field also included Greg Norman, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Sam Torrance, Sir Nick Faldo and the legendary American, Tom Watson, who just seven days before came close to winning his sixth Open Championship at the age of 59.
The 2011 Ricoh Women’s British Open is scheduled to be played at Carnoustie in July 2011 and marks the first time the Championship has been held in Scotland since World No. 1, Lorena Ochoa, won the 2007 title over the Old Course, St Andrews . On that occasion, the Championship delivered over £7.5 million to the Scottish economy and received over 356 hours of global broadcast coverage to almost 400 million households.
This year’s event, held earlier this month at Royal Lytham & St Annes, was won by Scotland’s Catriona Matthew, who was only making her second tournament appearance after giving birth to her second daughter, Sophie, a mere 11 weeks before.
Carnoustie hosted its seventh Open Championship back in 2007, when Ireland ’s Padraig amHarrington won the first of his two back-to-back victories after a play-off with Spain ’s Sergio Garcia. The other previous Open champions at Carnoustie were Tommy Armour (1931), Henry Cotton (1937), Ben Hogan (1953), Gary Player (1968), Tom Watson (1975) and Paul Lawrie (1999).

To take advantage of this offer please contact our Reservations team on 01241 802270