Tomorrow sees the inaugural Carnoustie Challenge take place over the Championship Course, with young PGA Professionals and leading amateurs attached to all 10 clubs on the R&A’s rota for The Open as well as assistant professionals from the Tartan Tour Order of Merit and some elite Scottish amateur players teeing it up.
This mixed gender event was the brainchild of our PGA head professional Colin Sinclair, and marks the fact that we are one of the few courses to have hosted both The Open and the Ricoh Women’s British Open.
No fewer than five players in the field will be representing Carnoustie – three of our PGA Professionals, Keir McNicoll, Rebecca Tully and Sean Fay, and they will be joined by the 2016 Scottish Women’s Amateur Champion, Ailsa Summers, and 2016 Craw’s Nest Tassie winner, Andy Fyfe.
Males will play from the tees being used for this year’s Open Championship, while females will play from the tees used at the Ricoh Women’s British Open in 2011.
To be played over 18 holes on April 18 and carrying a £3,000 prize fund, the event is being sponsored by Johnstons of Elgin, with hickory putter trophies being presented to both male and female winners.
In a bid to encourage an appropriate pace of place, “ready golf” will be implemented and each group will be given a timing tag.
All players will be starting from the 1st tee. Tee times are as follows;
1 9:00 Darren Howie (am)
Sean Fay, Carnoustie Golf Links
Michael Lander, St Andrews Links Golf Academy
1 9:10 Hannah McCook (am)
Michael Bradfield, Elie Links
Stephen Wilson, Dundonald Links
1 9:20 Sam Craigon, Balbirnie Park Golf Club
Ailsa Summers, Carnoustie (am)
Scott Gillies, North Berwick Golf Club
1 9:30 Callum Beveridge, Gailes Golf and Leisure
Iain McNab, Trump Turnberry Resort
Richard McCrudden (a), Royal Portrush
1 9:40 Scott Grant, Scotscraig Golf Club
Kirsty Brodie, Strathmore (am)
Rory Tinker, Piperdam Golf and Leisure Resort
1 9:50 Gillian Paton, Royal Montrose (am)
Charlene Reid, Royal Portrush Golf Club
Andrew Todd, Panmure Golf Club
1 10:00 Graeme McDougall, Elie Links
Samuel Binning, Mearns Castle Golf Academy
Liam Brown, Royal St George’s (am)
1 10:10 Cameron Farrell, Cardross Golf Club
Ross Munro, Duddingston Golf Club
Lewis Irvine (am)
1 10:20 Stuart Houlden, East Kilbride Golf Club
Jackson Bell, Lanark Golf Club
Jack Broun, Turnberry (am)
1 10:30 Thomas Higson, Gleneagles Hotel
Rebecca Tully, Carnoustie Golf Links
Shannon McWilliam, Aboyne (am)
1 10:40 Louis Gaughan, Bathgate Golf Club
Jordan Fraser, Prestwick Golf Club
Rachel Foster, Turnberry (am)
1 10:50 John Paterson, St Andrews New (am)
Steven O’Hara, N Lanarkshire Leisure Ltd
Katy McNicoll, Gullane Golf Club
1 11:00 Helen Jones (a), Royal Portrush (am)
Marc Owenson, Gullane Golf Club
Harry Miller, Royal St George’s Golf Club
1 11:10 Pol Berg, St Andrews (am)
Ben Munro, Elgin Golf Club
David Grindell, Inverness Golf Club
1 11:20 Kris Nicol, Dunes Golf Centre
Paul Moultrie, Royal Troon (am)
Cameron Marr, Musselburgh Golf Club
1 11:30 Calum Nairn, Prestwick St Nicholas G.C.
Emma Hale, Royal Troon (am)
Mark O’Donnell, Stirling Golf Club
1 11:40 Jasmine Mackintosh, Hazlehead (am)
Euan Campbell, Paisley Golf Club
Adam Rolfe, Royal Troon Golf Club
1 11:50 Andy Fyfe, Carnoustie (am)
Andrew Pillans, Banchory Golf Club
Euan Bowden, North Berwick Golf Club
1 12:00 Ellen Caton, St Andrews (am)
Patrick McKenna, Paul Lawrie Golf Centre
Euan MacDonald, Musselburgh Golf Club
1 12:10 Gabrielle Macdonald, Craigielaw (am)
Keir McNicoll, Carnoustie Golf Links
Callum Greenhill, Renaissance Club