De Vere Collection extends PGA Seniors sponsorship to 2013

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One of Europe’s most prestigious golf championships has been given a major boost by the De Vere hotel group agreeing a three-year sponsorship extension.
The deal will see the luxury golf resort company sponsor the De Vere Collection PGA Seniors Championship until 2013.
The announcement comes ahead of this year’s £250,000 event, which will be contested over the Hunting Course at Northumberland’s Slaley Hall from June 24-27.
It will the third successive year the European Senior Tour’s longest-running event has been staged at the venue and Carl Mason, who won the title for a third time last summer, is expected to defend his crown.
The tournament was first staged in 1957 and, except for its four majors, is the only 72-hole event on the Senior Tour.
Past winners include former Open champions Max Faulkner and Kel Nagle, the legendary Christy O’Connor and, more recently, the reigning Senior Tour Order of Merit winner Sam Torrance who triumphed in 2005 and 2006.