Galvin Green enhances PGA assistant’ prizes

Golf clothing brand Galvin Green is building on the success of its first year supporting the popular PGA Assistants’ Championship by introducing new prize incentives for aspiring winners in 2016.

As part of its innovative sponsorship of the event, Galvin Green will reward winners of this year’s seven regional qualifying events with high-performance clothing, plus provide the overnight leader in each round of the Championship final with a different coloured Ventil8 shirt.

These prizes are in addition to the champion being rewarded with the status and profile of an official Galvin Green Tour player for the year, which comes with a complete golfing wardrobe selected during a visit to the brand’s UK headquarters.

The tournament prize fund is £32,000 with a first prize of £5,000. The winner also receives entry into the PGA Futures Championship in Australia, plus the opportunity to compete for a place in the Scottish Open and the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth via the end-of-season PGA Play-Offs in Turkey.

“The Galvin Green brand values its association with the next generation of PGA Professionals and we’re intent on adding value to this great event where we can,” said Greg Pearse, Managing Director of Galvin Green UK & Ireland.

The 2016 Galvin Green PGA Assistants’ Championship final (3-5 August) will be held at a new venue for the first time in three years – Little Aston Golf Club in Sutton Coldfield, where 120 assistant professionals will compete over 54 holes for the title.

In another first, all seven regional qualifying events will be played within three weeks of each other in May at some of Great Britain & Ireland’s most challenging venues, including Craigielaw, County Meath and Purdis Heath. Around 950 assistant professionals are eligible to compete in the Championship, which boasts the highest percentage entrance rate of any PGA tournament for qualified players.

The PGA’s longest-running event was established in 1930 – pre-dating the US Masters by four years – and is notoriously difficult to win, with players only eligible to compete during their three years of training.

Galvin Green first sponsored the event last year, when Jack Harrison of Wildwood Golf Club near Guildford, Surrey, won by four shots at the Coventry Golf Club. “The experience of becoming PGA Assistants’ champion and learning about the benefits of high-performance clothing from Galvin Green has been a real eye-opener for me and I’d encourage any assistant eligible to compete this year to try to follow in my footsteps,” said Harrison.

To find out more visit www.pga.info