Montrose is only Scottish venue on 2017 EuroPro Tour schedule

NEWS RELEASE

By NICK TEALE

The HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour has announced its 16-tournament schedule for 2017, with seven new venues on the stellar line-up. Each event will have a £50,000 prize fund.

For the first time in its 15-year history, the EuroPro Tour will play the same course as the European Tour during the same season, with the Colt Course at Close House, near Newcastle  hosting the EuroPro season opener (April 26-28) before staging the British Masters in the autumn.

In May, the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour will make a welcome return to Ireland, where Ballykisteen Golf Club (May 10-12) will play host.

The following week the tour heads to Frilford Heath Golf Club in Oxford (May 17-19), where those who gained their tour card through Q School in April will return to the scene of their success.

In June, the tour makes its annual trip to Scotland’s east coast, where the historic Montrose Golf Links (June 13-15) will once again welcome Europe’s leading young professionals.

It will be the only port-of-call North of the Border

The season concludes with the Tour’s top 60 players contesting the Tour Championship. Players qualify to play on the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour either through a two-stage Qualifying School in the spring, or thanks to their 2015 achievements.

HOTELPLANNER.COM PGA EUROPRO TOUR 2017 SCHEDULE:

Qualifying School
Stage 1 - March 29-30

Caversham Heath GC

Chart Hills GC

The Players Club GC

Haggs Castle GC

Formby Hall GC

Mannings Heath Golf Club & Wine Estate

Final Stage - April 5-7

Frilford Heath Golf Club (Red & Blue Courses)

April 26-28 Close House, Newcastle

May 10-12 Ballykisteen Golf Club, Ireland

May 17-19 Frilford Heath Golf Club, Oxford

June 13-15 Montrose Golf Links, Scotland

June 21-23 Studley Wood Golf Club, Oxford

June 28-30 Cumberwell Park Golf Club, Wiltshire

July 5-7 Longhirst Hall Golf Club, Morpeth

July 19-21 Machynys Peninsula Golf Club, South Wales

July 26-28 Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa         

August 2-4 Mannings Heath Golf Club & Wine Estate, Sussex

August 9-11 Wychwood Park, Cheshire  
August 16-18 Caversham Heath Golf Club, Reading

August 23-25 East Sussex National

August 30-September 1 Collingtree Park Golf Club, Northampton

September 13-15 Moor Allerton Golf Club, Leeds

October 11-13 Tour Championship (venue TBC)