Sam Torrance will head the home challenge when the Prostate Cancer UK Scottish Senior Open is played for the first time at the Archerfield Links Golf Club, North Berwick, at the end of this month.
Torrance will be joined at Archerfield by fellow former Ryder Cup captain, Mark James, Irishman Des Smyth, who was one of Paul McGinley’s assistants during Europe’s historic victory in last year’s Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, plus compatriots Gordon Brand Jnr, Ross Drummond, Andrew Oldcorn and Bill Longmuir.
Reigning Scottish Senior Open champion, Mark Davies, who claimed his maiden Senior Tour success at Fairmont St Andrews 12 months ago, returns to defend the title while Australian, Peter Fowler, will be bidding for a third European Senior Tour title of the season after having won the Acorn Jersey Open and the ISPS Handa PGA Seniors Championship.
Englishman Paul Wesselingh, and the Austrian-based Gordon Manson, two other players who have secured victories on this year’s European Senior Tour, are also in the field while English Ryder Cup player, Paul Broadhurst, who turned 50 on August 14, will be making his European Senior Tour debut after a sparkling career during which he won six times in over 500 appearances on the European Tour and played in The 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island, where he was unbeaten thanks to a fourball win with Ian Woosnam over Paul Azinger and Hale Irwin and a singles victory over Mark O’Meara.
“I’m really looking forward to playing in the Prostate Cancer UK Scottish Senior Open,” confirmed Torrance. “It’s always good to play in front of my home fans and to play in an event that is associated with such a great cause.
“I’m told prostate cancer affects one in eight men in the UK, so seeing the game of golf unite to drive home this vital men’s health message is a fantastic move.”
This year’s Prostate Cancer UK Scottish Senior Open will be played at Archerfield Links Golf Club for the first time from August 27-29, 2015, with the East Lothian course becoming the sixth different venue to host the long-running tournament.
With a prize fund of £250,000 the tournament will have a field of 60 European Senior Tour professionals, who will play alongside an amateur partner for the first two rounds before the professionals only contest the final round on Saturday, August 29.
Archerfield Links has hosted the Ladies Scottish Open since 2010, while it also hosts an annual charity Pro-Am event each June in conjunction with Senior Tour player Ian Woosnam.
The Fidra Links course, which will host the Prostate Cancer UK Scottish Senior Open, was designed by Senior Tour Committee Chairman, David J Russell, one of Woosnam’s assistant captains at The 2006 Ryder Cup, who is one of Archerfield Links’ two Touring Professionals, along with Catriona Matthew.
