THE BIG GOLF RACE PARTNERS WITH TRACKMAN FOR WINTER CHALLENGE – Golf News

Prostate Most cancers UK, who ship The Large Golf Race, the largest fundraiser in golf has partnered with pioneering golf software program firm Trackman, to supply golfers across the UK the possibility to participate in an modern indoor digital golf problem this winter.

The Large Golf Race Winter Shoot-Out begins on Wednesday 1st January, 2025 and is a 3 spherical, 9-hole, stroke play match going down on the entrance 9 of three iconic Main {golfing} venues – St Andrews, Evian Resort and Bethpage Black, additionally the host of the 2025 Ryder Cup.

Every spherical, open for a month at-a-time could have a person prize winner, plus cumulative factors going in direction of an general Order of Advantage champion, who will win an award-winning Motocaddy M5 GPS electrical trolley and Dry-Collection bag,

Any golfer across the UK can participate in The Large Golf Race Winter Shoot-Out by visiting a Trackman indoor simulator anyplace throughout the nation.

1 in 8 males get prostate most cancers within the UK – the most typical most cancers in males – which will probably be highlighted on the eighth gap at every iconic course with an in-game closest to the pin with the winner awarded a dozen Titleist Professional V1 golf balls each month.

“We work in golf to avoid wasting males’s lives and we’re hoping this partnership with Trackman will permit us to achieve extra golfers and preserve our golf supporters engaged by way of the winter,” stated Seren Evans, Head of Occasions and Neighborhood Fundraising at Prostate Most cancers UK.

“We wish to encourage as many golfers as potential to become involved with The Large Golf Race subsequent summer time and lift cash to fund lifesaving analysis to cease males dying from prostate most cancers.

“We’re actually excited to see how Trackman can assist us prolong The Large Golf Race into the digital golf world and preserve our summer time fundraiser within the minds of the golf neighborhood. And having the ability to attain golfers throughout the globe is an added bonus!” she added

The free to enter match will probably be playable on the Trackman VG3 (Digital Golf 3) software program, the industry-leading graphics engine that makes indoor golf much more reasonable and enjoyable.

“We’re delighted to have partnered with Prostate Most cancers UK to push The Large Golf Race message by way of our expertise and we sit up for see the winter shoot-out match come to life,” stated Mike Lea, Regional Gross sales Director for Trackman within the UK, Eire and Center East.

“Sadly, it’s probably somebody in our lives has been affected by most cancers, and notably within the {golfing} neighborhood prostate most cancers is a really actual menace.

The statistics are astonishing – 1 in 8 males -so we’re eager to play our half in getting Prostate Most cancers UK’s message throughout the UK,” he added.

The Large Golf Race challenges gamers to tackle the 36, 72 or 100-holes in the course of the longer, sunnier days to lift cash for life-saving analysis.

Greater than 2,800 golfers took half this 12 months, elevating greater than £1m. This winter shoot-out problem is an extension to Prostate Most cancers UK’s work in golf and a pre-cursor to the launch of The Large Golf Race in 2025.

The UK’s greatest golf fundraiser has additionally lately been included in The Huge High-25 – an inventory of essentially the most profitable charity-owned mass participation occasions – for the second consecutive 12 months, and is the one golf problem to make the checklist. Climbing to seventeenth spot from nineteenth in 2023, The Large Golf Race joins the likes of Race for Life and Movember within the prime 25.

To participate in The Large Golf Race Winter Shoot-Out and be in with an opportunity of profitable the prizes on provide, golfers must obtain the Trackman Golf app and register earlier than utilizing it to register at any indoor location across the nation.

To search out all Trackman locators across the nation, go to https://www.trackman.com/locator.

For extra data on The Large Golf Race Winter Shoot Out go to prostatecanceruk.org/wintershootout.