Scottish Club Championship Event

Launched in 2007, the Scottish Club Championship is PSP Publishing’s latest foray into event organising.

In essence, it is Scotland’s largest inter-club tournament with participating clubs split into randomly-assigned divisions.

Clubs are asked to nominate ten tournaments from their calendar and the cumulative winning scores from these ten events – in relation to the competition standard scratch score – determines how well each club scores in their division.

Upon the completion of all the scoring events, the top two clubs from each division send a team of four members – comprising one male, one female, one junior and one wild card pick – forward to the Grand Final, held in 2007 at the Westerwood Hotel Golf & Country Club,

There, the clubs play an 18-hole stableford competition, with all scores to count, the lowest score on the day determining Scotland’s champion club.

bunkered Matchplay Challenge

The bunkered Matchplay Challenge is a unique Ryder Cup-style matchplay competition where Scotland’s leading home-based professionals face their amateur counterparts.

The contest first took place in 2004 at the Macdonald Cardrona Hotel with former Ryder Cup-winning captain Bernard Gallacher leading his Scottish PGA Team to a narrow win over Barclay Howard’s young Scottish Golf Union Team.
At Cardrona, Gallacher famously said the organisation of the event was “better than the Ryder Cup”.

The idea to form the contest was first mooted in the bunkered office by Paul Grant, publisher of Scotland’s No.1 golf magazine. No other competition had ever brought the two golf associations in the ‘Home of Golf’ together before. It would be a first for Scottish golf and, since the inaugural event in 2004, it has been resounding success.

The two-day contest follows a Ryder Cup format where both teams play foursomes and fourballs on the first day followed by singles matches on the final day.

The event is preceded by a Pro-Am-Am and concludes with a glittering Gala Dinner and Prize-Giving Ceremony.