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NEWS CHARITIES
Ballesteros in partnership Great links between charities can boost cancer battlers and the Heroes.
A
fter a successful launch year in 2010, Te National
Golf Club Challenge will double in size in 2011 with a new event in support of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation, working in partnership with Cancer Research UK.
Te organisation’s Help
For Heroes 2011 event will take place on the weekend of 4- 5 June 2011, with a new nationwide Seve Ballesteros Foundation event on the 23- 24 July weekend. Speaking of his support for
the new nationwide event, Seve Ballesteros said: “I have always admired and loved British people. Teir support during the toughest match of my life is very special. I am proud to be involved in the National Golf Club Challenge and I hope golf clubs throughout the UK will take part to raise funds for Te
Piltdown Golf Club’s magnificent heathland course has brought back vast swathes of heather through hard work on the part of head greenkeeper John Shepherd and his committed team of five. Tey have also had the help
of Speedcut Contractors, who have recently been carrying out work on new tees and greens. Speedcut, under contracts manager Barry Pace, have built a new ladies tee at the 18th and a new green, plus recontouring around the men’s tee and a new winter tee at the 9th, plus building five other new tees. Tey have worked on many of the areas where heather has been regenerated. John said: “Biodiversity was
hardly talked about in the early days. But I knew that we had to reintroduce heather if we were to attract birds, butterflies and insects. Te heather had been wiped out, but the seed lies just
Seve Ballesteros Foundation, in partnership with Cancer Research UK. By signing up to the challenge, clubs all over the UK can enjoy the sport while raising money for brain cancer research.” 2010’s National Golf Club
Challenge brought hundreds of golf clubs and thousands of golfers together on the same weekend in July as part of a nationwide fundraiser, with each participating golf club hosting their own charity golf day in aid of Help for Heroes. In 2011 the two National
Golf Club Challenge competitions are designed to coincide with participating golf clubs’ monthly Stableford event, with each club turning the day into their own charity golf day. Competing clubs submit aggregate scores from their ten best players on the day. Tis
then determines the top scoring golf clubs against standard scratch, who will be invited to compete in a climactic National Final for each event. Seve Ballesteros set up the Seve
Ballesteros Foundation in 2009 and works in partnership with Cancer Research UK to raise money for the charity’s world class research into cancers of the brain. He was diagnosed with a brain
tumour in 2008 and having undergone four operations, intensive chemotherapy and a six-week course of radiotherapy, Seve is now fighting back with the same grit and determination we have seen from him on the golf course. •
www.nationalgolfclubchallenge.
org.uk •
www.seveballesterosfoundation.org •
www.cancerresearchuk.org •
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
Piltdown heath check
PING Collection accolade
Popular golf clothing manufacturer PING Collection was recently presented with the TGI Golf ‘Best Clothing Product’ Award as voted by members of TGI Golf in their annual awards. Te awards are held in high- esteem within the golf industry as they are voted for by PGA professionals throughout the UK & Ireland. Simon McGuigan, managing
director, PING Collection Europe Ltd, said: “It is a real honour to be recognised as the Best Clothing Product by the TGI. It is particularly pleasing when the hard work and dedication that your entire team puts in providing a first-class product range and service is recognised by our customers.” Pictured from left to right:
Eddie Reid, managing director of TGI Golf, Claire Brown, PING Collection territory manager, Simon McGuigan, managing director of PING Collection Europe. •
www.pingcollection.co.uk
RESEARCH KPMG travel
under the soil waiting for an opportunity to flourish, which it cannot do without help. “We had to remove a good number of silver birches, which we regard as the enemy, before taking off the topsoil and laying down heather bracken which we obtained from Ashdown
Forest, with their permission. Tis encourages the seed to germinate and gives the young plants protection. It takes from four to five years for heather to get established so this is not a short-term project.” •
www.speedcutcontractors.co.uk •
www.piltdowngolfclub.co.uk
insight KPMG’s Golf Advisory Practice has published its Golf Travel Insights 2010 survey (available for download at www.golfbusinesscommunity. com) revealing more than half of golf tour operators have experienced an increase in customers booking golf holidays with them in 2010. In total, 54% of the 120 golf tour operators surveyed said there had been a noticeable increase in demand (the last time the survey was undertaken, in 2008, this figure was 73%), while 38% had experienced a decrease (up from 10% in 2008). See more on page 21.
GBD SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010
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