PREM GROUP TO SPONSOR IRISH MASTERS UNTIL 2020
TULFARRIS Hotel & Golf Resort will host the Europro Tour’s PREM Group Irish Masters until 2020, with the first staging set for the Co. Wicklow venue from August 29-31.
The club’s touring professional Simon Thornton will be gunning for victory at the Patrick J. Merrigan design on Blessington Lakes, with personalities from the worlds of sport and entertainment, including soccer star Stephen Hunt and TV presenter Brian Ormond, set to play in the PREM Group Irish Masters Pro-Am on August 28.
The PGA Europro Tour offers up-and-coming golfers the chance to gain experience, with the top five money winners at the end of the season earning promotion to the European Challenge Tour.
A two-hour highlights package will be shown by Sky Sports with 98 networks around the world beaming spectacular images of Tulfarris Hotel & Golf Resort into 400 million homes.
Major winners Louis Oosthuizen and Carl Schwartzel, as well as Ryder Cup stars Ross Fisher and Nicolas Colsaerts have all won on the Europro Tour.
The £46,735 PREM Group Irish Masters will be the second last of the tour’s 15 events before the Grand Final on September 21.
Jim Murphy, CEO of PREM Group, said: “We are proud to be the title sponsors of The PREM Group Irish Masters at Tulfarris Hotel & Golf Resort Hotel this year and are delighted to announce that we have completed a two-year deal with the Euro Pro Tour for Tulfarris to continue to be the host venue for a further two years, until 2020.
“We have also just signed Simon Thornton as the Tulfarris Hotel and Golf Resort touring professional until the end of 2019. Simon is a wonderful ambassador for Tulfarris and we are very pleased with our association with him.
“To have such a major golfing event coming here is a great coup for the golf club and for the area. It’s going to be an incredible, international showcase opportunity for Ireland, Wicklow and for Tulfarris.”