Scottish PGA will provide exciting end to season

The 2017 Tartan Tour schedule is set for a big finish at the end of another exciting campaign for PGA in Scotland members.

For the second year in a row, the circuit’s flagship event, the M&H Logistics Scottish PGA Championship, will bring the curtain down when it takes place at Gleneagles from 16 to 19 October.

Won last year in its 100th staging by West Linton’s Gareth Wright, the tournament carries an increased prize fund and will be staged once again on the King’s Course at the Perthshire venue.

It comes exactly a month after another of the circuit’s Order of Merit events, the P&H Championship, which is taking place for the third year running at The Renaissance Club in East Lothian.

In between those two Order of Merit tournaments is another of the Tartan Tour’s biggest events – the Highland Golf Links Pro-am. Heading back to three of the country’s leading courses – Castle Stuart, Nairn and Royal Dornoch – once again, it takes place on 2-4 October.

The opening 2017 Order of Merit event is the Northern Open, which is being held at Moray Golf Club on 6-8 June. Greig Hutcheon, who claimed the title for a second time at Royal Dornoch last season, will be the defending champion in the event’s first visit to the Lossiemouth venue since 1991.

Also counting in the Order of Merit title race again will be the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open qualifier. Offering five spots in the event’s first visit to Dundonald Links in Ayrshire, it will take place on 8-9 July, with the venue set to be announced in due course.

PGA in Scotland secretary Shona Malcolm said: “The Tartan Tour continues to provide high quality playing opportunities for PGA members and a significant amount of work is currently going into developing new and varied events, with some exciting ventures already in the planning for 2018.”