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

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

The Huge 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 may have a person prize winner, plus cumulative factors going in the 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 Huge 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 commonest most cancers in males – which will likely 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 succeed in extra golfers and hold our golf supporters engaged by way of the winter,” mentioned Seren Evans, Head of Occasions and Group Fundraising at Prostate Most cancers UK.

“We wish to encourage as many golfers as potential to become involved with The Huge 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 may also help us lengthen The Huge Golf Race into the digital golf world and hold our summer time fundraiser within the minds of the golf group. And having the ability to attain golfers throughout the globe is an added bonus!” she added

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

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

“Sadly, it’s possible somebody in our lives has been affected by most cancers, and notably within the {golfing} group 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 Huge Golf Race challenges gamers to tackle the 36, 72 or 100-holes through the longer, sunnier days to boost cash for life-saving analysis.

Greater than 2,800 golfers took half this yr, 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 Huge Golf Race in 2025.

The UK’s largest golf fundraiser has additionally not too long ago been included in The Large High-25 – a listing of probably the most profitable charity-owned mass participation occasions – for the second consecutive yr, and is the one golf problem to make the listing. Climbing to seventeenth spot from nineteenth in 2023, The Huge Golf Race joins the likes of Race for Life and Movember within the high 25.

To participate in The Huge Golf Race Winter Shoot-Out and be in with an opportunity of successful the prizes on provide, golfers have to obtain the Trackman Golf app and register earlier than utilizing it to sign up 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 Huge Golf Race Winter Shoot Out go to prostatecanceruk.org/wintershootout.