STAND BY FOR THE SPECSAVERS SPECTACULAR AT CARNOUSTIE BURNSIDE ON JULY 3

We have renamed the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre Scottish Ladies Open Tour event over the Burnside Course at Carnoustie Links on Wednesday, July3 THE SPECSAVERS SPECTACULAR.
(Pictured above, left to right: Heather MacRae, Jamie Buchan, Nicola Melville and Katy McNicoll).
This follows the the Tayside opticians' support of the fledgling tour for lady pros and aspiring lady/girl amateurs with single-figure handicaps.
If we get 30 entries for the 18-hole competition at Carnoustie, then the prize fund will now amount to £3,000.

PRESS RELEASE FROM SPECSAVERS
A TAYSIDE opticians has been unveiled as an official sponsor of a popular Scottish golf competition.
The Scottish Ladies Open Tour will arrive in Carnoustie on Wednesday 3 July and Specsavers has put its support behind the iconic sporting event.
Four Specsavers stores – in Dundee, Forfar, Montrose and Arbroath – have funded the sponsorship and staff are thrilled to be involved.
Professional golfers, Katy McNicholl and Heather Macrae, who will be taking part in the competition, stopped by the Dundee store to officially launch the partnership.
Katy, who is from Carnoustie, says: ‘It was a pleasure to stop by Specsavers to help announce the sponsorship. The tour is such an important competition as it allows females golfers to grow and improve and also take our game to the next level.
‘It’s fantastic that Specsavers is supporting the Carnoustie event this year and I am looking forward to playing in my home town.’
The mini golf tour, which visits venues across the country, aims to act as a stepping stone to the main ladies European tour. It’s open to all female professionals and single figure handicap female amateurs.
Both golfers also had their eyes tested during their visit to the store to ensure they are on top form for the competition.
Jamie Buchan, store director at Specsavers Dundee and Arbroath, says: ‘We are very proud to be the official sponsor of the Carnoustie event of The Paul Lawrie Golf Centre Scottish Ladies Open Tour Championship.
‘The tour allows golfers the opportunity to experience an exciting and exhilarating competition, playing with some of the best in the country.
‘At Specsavers, we are passionate about supporting the community in which we serve. This competition is not only a great opportunity for the players but the surrounding area will also benefit from tourism the event creates. 

‘We were thrilled to welcome Heather and Katy (pictured above) in-store today to officially launch this special partnership, and we look forward to an exciting competition in Carnoustie next month.’
Nicola Melville, Tournament Director of the Scottish Ladies Open Tour, says: ‘The aim of the tour is to help aspiring female golfers in Scotland so it's great to have a company such as Specsavers, sponsoring one of our events and we would like to say thank you for the support.’
Colin Farquharson, co-organiser of the tour, said "The Paul Lawrie Tour could not exist without sponsors so the players and we, the organisers, owe a debt of gratitude to companies like Specsavers".

+Every competition on the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre Scottish Ladies Open Tour is sponsored by the PLGC but Nicola Melville and Colin Farquharson would welcome event-by-event sponsorship from companies such as Specsavers.

+It need cost the companies (or individual benefactors) as little as £500 to £1,000 to become title sponsors of one of the Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Open Tour events. And it does increase the prize funds for the girls, which is the most important thing.  

+The more players who enter the PLGC SLOT events, so the prize funds rise because all the entry monies go into each competition's prizefund (cash for the lady pros, prize vouchers up to £500 value for the amateurs).