Westwood supports 2010 National Golf Club Challenge

European number one Lee Westwood has thrown his support behind the 2010 National Golf Club Challenge charity golf event, in aid of Help for Heroes.

Westwood has agreed to become a patron of the event, while the Challenge Trophy will bear the player’s name. The trophy will now be known as ‘The Lee Westwood Cup’.

The National Golf Club Challenge will be held between the 24th and 25th July and will bring together hundreds of golf clubs and thousands of players on the same weekend as part of a nationwide charity golf event which will coincide with participating clubs’ monthly Stableford event.

Competing golf clubs will submit the aggregate scores of their ten best scoring players to determine the top six golf clubs. These clubs will then compete in the National Final, sponsored by YourGolfTravel.com which will be held on 11th and 12th October at The Belfry.

“Together we have the chance to change the lives of those who have sacrificed and endured so much so we might live full and free lives. Many brave men and women have suffered often the most horrendous injuries in the line of duty and these heroes deserve our wholehearted support in July.” Westwood said in support for the Challenge.

“I am honoured to become patron to the challenge and deeply humbled to be asked by Wedgwood to name the National Golf Club Challenge Trophy ‘The Lee Westwood Cup’ continuing Wedgwood’s long tradition of naming their stunning trophies after some of the most iconic golfers the world has ever seen.”

The trophy bearing Westwood’s name is being commissioned by Wedgwood and will be hand-crafted out of blue Jasper and hand-decorated with white bas-relief golfing and military figures forming the main features of design. The trophy will also be mounted on two blue jasper plinths with the edges being hand-gilded in 22-carat gold.

For more information on The National Golf Club Challenge, including how to enter your golf club, go to www.nationalgolfclubchallenge.org.uk or www.ngcc2010.com.

For more information on the Help for Heroes charity and the work they do please visit their website: www.helpforheroes.org.uk.