NATIONAL MID-AM CHAMPIONSHIP BACK ON CALENDAR IN 2014
MID AMATEUR
GOLF – PRESS RELEASE
Mid Amateur Golf
(www.midamgolf.co.uk)
are pleased to announce that they are planning to establish a new championship
for 2014 for Mid-Amateur Golfers that will fill the gap created when the R and A
discontinued the British Mid-Amateur Championship in 2007.
The new event
will be held in the autumn of 2014 at a venue that is yet to be confirmed and
will more than likely be a mixture of stroke play and match play.
“We have been
repeatedly asked for a national/international event to take the place of the
British Mid-Amateur which was taken off the championship rota in 2007 after the
R and A decided that the quality of the entrants was not good enough and the
field sizes were diminishing.”
Said Jason Morris, Director at Mid-Amateur
Golf. “The English Mid-Amateur
Championship (The Logan), which is run by England Golf, is the only well-established
event in the UK but in recent years we have added the Welsh and Scottish
championships and we now feel the time is right to re-introduce a championship
for the British Isles.”
The R and A have
given their blessing to the venture and the event will more than likely feature
on the World Amateur Golf Ranking schedule for 2014.
The main difference between the new event and
the old British Mid-Am will be the qualifying age which will be 35 for the new
event and not 25 as in previous years.
Mid-Amateur Golf
are currently speaking with a number of venues across the UK but are inviting
interested clubs to contact them.
“Obviously we need a course that is willing to give up 3-5 days for this
event but the world-wide media attention that it will attract
will more than compensate for the loss of their course for the championship.”
Added Jason. “Eventually we would like
to see Mid Amateurs profile raised in the UK in the same way that it is in
America. The winner of their national Mid
Am even gets an invite to the US Masters as a result of winning their
championship.”
Entrants will be
expected from all over the world and there are also sponsorship opportunities
for organisations - any interested parties should contact the offices of
Mid-Amateur Golf at their base in Whitstable in Kent.
Mid-Amateur Golf
is an organisation that runs golf events across the UK and also administers the
Mid-Amateur Golf Order of Merit and associated web site at www.midamgolf.co.uk
For more information/related
press releases and details of Mid-Amateur Golf, contact Jason Morris on 07891
766102 or email midamateurgolf@gmail.com.
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