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ARNOLD CLARK PUT UP £20,000 CAR FOR FIRST PLAYER TO ACE 17^TH HOLE AT DALMAHOY ON THURSDAY

A new car worth £20,000 will be up for grabs at three of the short holes  on the new Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Open Tour which makes its debut at Marriott Dalmahoy, Edinburgh on Thursday.

The first competitor, either a female professional or one of the single-figure amateurs in the field, to achieve a hole in one at Dalmahoy's par-3 17th hole (139yd) will win a Kia Sportage 1 1.6 GDi in Arctic White, offered by Arnold Clark Ltd.
 Arnold Clark Edinburgh is putting up the Kia prize at Dalmahoy.

The Kia Sportage boasts a range of integral safety features, sleek aerodynamic body and perhaps most importantly an industry leading 7 year warranty. The Sportage comes with 2wd as standard, intelligent Stop & go system and 6 speed manual transmission. The 1 1.6GDi comes with 16” Alloy wheels, tinted glass, cruise control, rain sensing front wipers and LED Daytime running lights.

If it is not won at the Edinburgh venue, the PLGC SLOT competitors will have a second chance in the fourth event on the 14-event schedule, at Deeside Golf Club, Aberdeen on Tuesday, May 7.
The first hole, measuring 154yd from the Yellow Tees for the Saltire Energy Classic 2 event at the  Bieldside course, will be the focus of attention with Arnold Clark Ltd repeating its offer to reward the first hole in one with the bumper prize on wheels.
If the Kia Sportage has still not been won after the Deeside tournament, then it will be on offer for a third and last time at The Duke's Course, St Andrews, the venue for the 10th event on the Paul Lawrie Tour which is aimed at helping lady pros improve their games so that they can qualify to play on the Ladies European Tour.
At the same time, the fledgling circuit, the first all-female tour in Scotland, will offer single-figure handicap female amateur golfers the opportunity to measure their own games against their professional rivals and help make up their minds if they are good enough to turn pro themselves.
The hole-in-one prize hole at The Duke's has not been selected yet but co-organiser Nicola Melville, a PGA teaching pro at St Andrews, favours the 16th (163yd) over the third (146yd).
Three Aberdeen hoteliers, Bill Hogg, Gordon Nicoll and Gordon Sinclair, are also offering a bumper hole in one prize - £10,000 in cash to the player who is the first to ace the 16th (157yd) at Trump International in the Paul Lawrie Tour event (the Saltire Energy Classic 1) there on Monday, May 6. If nobody holes her tee shot at this hole, the sponsors will give a £100 consolation prize to the player whose ball finishes closes to the pin.
Messrs Hogg, Nicoll and Sinclair had originally been prepared to offer a second £10,000 prize, for a hole in one at Deeside's first hole the following day but very sportingly stood aside when Arnold Clark Ltd made known their wish to offer a £20,000 Kia for an ace at the same hole.
The Paul Lawrie Golf Centre - Paul Lawrie, Aberdeen hotelier Stewart Spence, and Martin Gilbert, CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management - are the main sponsors of the Tour, adding £1,000 to the players' entry fees to form the prize funds for the first 13 one-round events, and raising that to £2,000 for the 36-hole, two-day Tour Championship at Marriott Dalmahoy on October 9 and 10.
Mike Loggie, CEO of the Saltire Energy Group, is putting up £3,250, for the events at Trump International and Deeside with a bonus prizes for the best 36-hole totals from the North-east double-header forming the Saltire Energy Championship.

"We have other sponsors who do not wish to be named at the moment and we are working on boosting all the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre Scottish Ladies Open Tour prize funds," said veteran golf writer Colin Farquharson who has been seeking for years to establish this type of stepping-stone tour for lady professionals and aspiring female amateurs.
"There is room for any company or individual who wishes to help this fledgling tour get off the ground to come on board."

2013 PAUL LAWRIE GOLF CENTRE SCOTTISH LADIES OPEN TOUR
All events 18-hole one day except for Tour Championship.

April 18 - Marriott Dalmahoy.
April 19 - Ratho Park.
May 6 - Saltire Energy Class 1 (Trump International).
May 7 - Saltire Energy Class 2 (Deeside)
May 6 and 7 - Saltire Energy Championship (36-hole totals).
July 2 - Downfield, Dundee.
July 3 - Carnoustie Burnside.
July 10 - Blairgowrie Rosemount.
July 11 - Alyth, Perthshire.
August 26 - Fairmont St Andrews (Torrance course)
August 27 - The Duke's, St Andrews.
September 23 - Haggs Castle, Glasgow
September 24 - Drumpellier, Glasgow.
October 7 - Craigielaw, East Lothian.
October 9-10 - Tour Championship (Marriott Dalmahoy, 36 holes).

TEE TIMES FOR DALMAHOY ON THURSDAY, APRIL 18

 (a) denotes amateur.
         
13:57    Heather MacRae    Heather Stirling   
14:06    Laura Murray     Ailsa Bain    Hannah Scott (a)
14:15    Gemma Webster    Laura Harvey    Alyson McKechin (a)
14:24    Kimberley Crooks    Tatiana Kernen    Jessica Meek (a)
14:33    Pamela Feggans    Chrisje De Vries    Jane Turner (a)
14:42    Daisy Dyer    Martine Pow    Rachel Walker (a)
14:51    Michele Thomson    Krystal Falkner    Nichola Ferguson (a)
15:00    Lisa Shervill    Eleanor Givens    Tara MacTaggart (a)
15:09    Fabienne in-albon    Vikki Laing    Jess Wilcox (a)

TEE TIMES FOR RATHO PARK GC ON FRIDAY, APRIL 19

         
14:00    Julie Otto    Jane Turner (a)    Karyn Burns
14:10    Fabienne in-albon    Laura Murray    Hannah Scott (a)
14:20    Heather Stirling    Gemma Webster    Alyson McKechin (a)
14:30    Tatiana Kernen    Kimberly Crooks    Jessica Meek (a)
14:40    Chrisje De Vries    Pamela Feggans    Nichola Ferguson (a)
14:50    Martine Pow    Daisy Dyer    Rachel Walker (a)
15:00    Krystal Falkner    Michele Thomson    Kate McIntosh (a)
15:10    Eleanor Givens    Lisa Shervill    Jess Wilcox (a)
15:20    Vikki Laing    Heather MacRae    Tara MacTaggart (a)

PLAYER NOTES

Heather Stirling, Laura Murray, Martine Pow and Michele Thomson are former Scottish women's amateur champions.

Heather Stirling, Michele Thomson, Vikki Laing and Julie Otto are past Curtis Cup players.

Julie Otto won the British women's open amateur championship in 1990 and 1995. She is also a past English women's amateur champion.

Heather MacRae is a former British women's open amateur stroke-play champion.

Vikki Laing was a record-setting, repeating Scottish girls champion and a winner on the US Futures Tour.

Martine Pow is a former British women's open mid-amateur champion. She will be making her debut as a professional.