Tartan Tour look to build strong Scottish Professional Championship

Personal invitations will be made to every top Scottish professional golfer, including Colin Montgomerie and Martin Laird, to compete in the Scottish Professional Championship at Gleneagles in October.

The relaunched national championship will take place over the Gleneagles resort’s historic King’s Course, and is scheduled for the week following the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. A maximum of sixty-six players will take park in the event – down from 156 which contested the title over the PGA Centenary Course in 2009 when David Orr won the title as the Tartan Tour aims for quality rather than quantity as it bids to re-establish the event as and re-energise the Tour in Scotland.

Moving the event to Gleneagles will also help launch the Perthshire resort’s tenure as the host venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup match.

The championship will be screened on television, with a TV package of highlights having been arranged and will be screened worldwide. The championship will be up against the big-budget Oceanio Portugal Masters on the European Tour, but organisers are hopeful that the event will attract a strong line-up including Sam Torrance, Montgomerie and Laird and emulating the Irish national championship which is strongly supported by Padraig Harrington.