Farmfoods Tartan Pro Tour today unveiled an exciting new schedule for 2023 and with it announced it will become an Official Feeder Tour to the European Challenge Tour, with the leading player from the final 2023 Tartan Pro Tour Order of Merit Rankings securing an exemption for the Challenge Tour circuit in 2024.
“This is a huge step forward for Tartan Pro Tour” according to the Tour’s founder, Paul Lawrie. “Since we began these events during the pandemic in 2020, our goal has been to provide playing and development opportunities to better prepare up-and-coming players, professionals and amateurs, to compete at higher levels of the sport.
"To now be a part of the player pathway onto the European Challenge Tour, I feel we’ve really achieved that and it will be an added incentive for those players aspiring to play at the next level of the game.”
The Scottish-based Tour will include thirteen stroke play events across three days over 54-holes (with a cut after 36-holes), taking place at some prominent venues in The Home of Golf between the first of May, when Barassie Links will host the opening event, and the end of September when 2014 Ryder Cup venue, Gleneagles, will stage the curtain-closer.
“I want to say a massive thank you once again to Farmfoods for their outstanding support as well as The R&A and all our Official Tour Partners for their backing," said Lawrie. "The venues which support the development of golfers through these events is also incredible.
"We return to many of the fantastic venues which have been part of our journey from the beginning (in 2020) and are delighted to visit some new venues next season – the Torrance Course at Fairmont St Andrews, Macdonald Cardrona Golf & Spa, Downfield Golf Club, Portlethen Golf Club and Gleneagles Centenary Course join the list - and I’m delighted they have come on board this year.
"Each host venue has been so accommodating and helpful with making the dates work; the quality of these courses is very high, so it will be great for the players to play competitive golf and test themselves at each of these varied course types.”
The Tartan Pro Tour will provide an exciting platform for players at various stages of their careers to come together to play for total prize money in the region of £350,000. With invites into the Farmfoods Scottish Challenge Tour supported by The R&A (10-13 August at Newmachar Golf Club) also on the table for the leading three players from the 2023 Tartan Pro Tour Order of Merit who are not otherwise exempt following the conclusion of the Macdonald Cardrona event (17-19 July), the incentives for aspiring golfers are further enhanced.
The Tartan Pro Tour is open to Professional golfers and elite amateurs, male and female. One hundred percent of players’ entry fees are added into the overall prize fund for each event and supplemented by corporate funding from the Tartan Pro Tour’s sponsors and partners.
