Centennial Scottish PGA Championship
crowns 2016 Tartan Tour Schedule
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Centennial Scottish PGA Championship crowns 2016 Tartan Tour schedule
The 100th staging of the Scottish PGA Championship will be the final event on the 2016 Tartan Tour schedule.
The milestone tournament will
bring down the curtain on this season's fixture list when it is played
over the King's Course at Gleneagles on October 17-20.
With qualifying being held at
Crieff on August 30-31, it will feature a reduced field of 66 players
and carry a prize-fund of around £40,000.
"We are delighted that the 100th
Scottish PGA Championship will be staged at Gleneagles, which has been
the event's home since 1999," said PGA in Scotland secretary Shona
Malcolm.
"We will be trying to do
something to commemorate the event reaching this milestone and hopefully
that will involve a few of the winners from yesteryear."
Chris Kelly won the circuit's flagship event in 2015, beating Paul
McKechnie at the first extra hole in a sudden-death play-off at the
Perthshire venue.
Kelly, last year's Order of
Merit winner, will also be the defending champion when the Northern Open
is staged at Royal Dornoch for the first time since 1994.
Taking place on June 21-24, it will be part of celebrations to mark 400 years of golf at the renowned Sutherland venue.
The 2016 Order of Merit title
race gets underway in East Lothian, where the P and H Championship takes
place at The Renaissance for the second year running on May 23-25.
The Aberdeen Asset Management
Scottish Open Qualifier at Moray on July 2-3 is the next counting event
after the Northern Open, while points will again be on offer in both the
Deer Park Masters on August 2-3 and the Kerr Investments pro-am at
Dumfries and Galloway on August 27-28.
The title race will then come to a conclusion at the Scottish PGA Championship at Gleneagles.
A new addition to the schedule
is the Gleneagles International Pro-Am, which will be played on the
Queen's, King's and PGA Centenary Courses on July 5-7.
Other notable events on the
fixture list include the Paul Lawrie Invitational at Deeside on
September 6-8, the Carnegie Invitational at Skibo Castle on September
13-14 and the Highland Golf Links Pro-Am at Nairn, Royal Dornoch and
Castle Stuart on September 26-28.
The schedule also contains more than 30 one-day pro-ams as well as a winter fourball series consisting of nine events.
For the seventh season in a row, the Scottish Young Professionals' Championship will be played at West Lothian on August 22-24.
"We are keen to capitalise on
all the tournaments we already have and support them in the proper way,"
added Malcolm, who took over the PGA in Scotland reins last year.
"Part of our aspirations for the
future, however, is to explore new playing opportunities for the 100 or
so members who regularly compete, while improving engagement with the
remainder of our 650 members who don’t tend to play on the Tartan Tour.
2016 Order of Merit events
May 23-25 P and H Championship, The Renaissance
June 21-24 Northern Open, Royal Dornoch
July 2-3 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open Qualifier, Moray
Aug 2-3 Deer Park Masters
Aug 27-28 Kerr Investments Pro-Am, Dumfries & Galloway
Oct 17-20 Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship, King's Course
Other main events
July 5-7 Gleneagles International Pro-Am, Queen's, King's and PGA Centenary Courses
Aug 22-24 Scottish Young Professionals' Championship, West Lothian
Sept 6-8 Paul Lawrie Invitational, Deeside
Sept 13-14 Carnegie Invitational, Skibo Castle
Sept 18-19 Sandy Pipey Masters, Royal Dornoch
Sept 26-28 Highland Golf Links Pro-Am, Nairn, Royal Dornoch and Castle Stuart
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