NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE PRIZE TRIP TO TUNISIA MUST GO TO PRO
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
The leading professional at Wednesday's North-east of Scotland Golfers' Alliance competition at Newburgh-on-Ythan Golf Club will win a free trip to the Tunisia Golf Festival from February 9 to 16.
Menara Travel, the London-based travel agency who are organising and promoting, this inaugural festival - they already run a successful Morocco Golf Festival - wanted to give the prize to the amateur with the lowest net score but a R and A Rules of Amateur Status official advised that the prize was worth more than the £500 value limit which amateurs can accept.
"What a great pity!" said Dave Wilson, joint secretary of the NE Alliance. "It would have been a terrific prize for club amateurs to compete for. Maybe we can arrange something for next year so that the prize then goes to the people for whom it was intended.
"In the meantime, we have to respect the R and A advice so it will be a bonus prize for the leading professional at the Newburgh competition."
Menara Travel have offered the prize to the four main Alliance associations in Scotland - the North-east, Midlands, Edinburgh and East of Scotland, and the West of Scotland.
The Midlands Alliance will put up the pros-only prize at their Charleton GC, Colinsburgh, Fife competition on Tuesday, December 11.
The Edinburgh and East of Scotland Alliance and the West of Scotland Alliance are considering their position.
The West does not have a scheduled competition until February, too late to make arrangements for their pro winner to go to the Tunisia Golf Festival at Hammamet.
But there is nothing to stop the West Alliance running a pros-only competition before the mid-January deadline with the Tunisia prize at stake.
The prize winners have to pay their own way to and from the departure airport, Manchester. The free holiday starts there.
TO READ ALL ABOUT WHAT'S ON OFFER AT THE TUNISIA GOLF FESTIVAL
CLICK HERE
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
The leading professional at Wednesday's North-east of Scotland Golfers' Alliance competition at Newburgh-on-Ythan Golf Club will win a free trip to the Tunisia Golf Festival from February 9 to 16.
Menara Travel, the London-based travel agency who are organising and promoting, this inaugural festival - they already run a successful Morocco Golf Festival - wanted to give the prize to the amateur with the lowest net score but a R and A Rules of Amateur Status official advised that the prize was worth more than the £500 value limit which amateurs can accept.
"What a great pity!" said Dave Wilson, joint secretary of the NE Alliance. "It would have been a terrific prize for club amateurs to compete for. Maybe we can arrange something for next year so that the prize then goes to the people for whom it was intended.
"In the meantime, we have to respect the R and A advice so it will be a bonus prize for the leading professional at the Newburgh competition."
Menara Travel have offered the prize to the four main Alliance associations in Scotland - the North-east, Midlands, Edinburgh and East of Scotland, and the West of Scotland.
The Midlands Alliance will put up the pros-only prize at their Charleton GC, Colinsburgh, Fife competition on Tuesday, December 11.
The Edinburgh and East of Scotland Alliance and the West of Scotland Alliance are considering their position.
The West does not have a scheduled competition until February, too late to make arrangements for their pro winner to go to the Tunisia Golf Festival at Hammamet.
But there is nothing to stop the West Alliance running a pros-only competition before the mid-January deadline with the Tunisia prize at stake.
The prize winners have to pay their own way to and from the departure airport, Manchester. The free holiday starts there.
TO READ ALL ABOUT WHAT'S ON OFFER AT THE TUNISIA GOLF FESTIVAL
CLICK HERE
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