One of the strongest European Challenge Tour fields of the season will assemble at the Macdonald Cardrona Golf and Country Club this week, when Andrew McArthur will bid to become the first home winner of the Scottish Challenge.
McArthur is one of 13 winners on the 2008 Challenge Tour Schedule who will head to Peebles, Scotland, to compete for the €220,000 prize fund – the fifth largest on offer this season.
The latest player to add his name to the roll call of Challenge Tour champions was England’s David Horsey, whose one-shot victory at last week’s Telenet Trophy was his maiden success on the Challenge Tour.
He said: “To win on the Challenge Tour is a brilliant feeling – I’m chuffed to bits. I’ll have a few drinks to celebrate, then get myself ready for the Scottish Challenge. My game’s in really good shape at the minute, so I can’t wait for the rest of the season now.”
Horsey will join fellow winners Antti Ahokas of Finland, the English trio of Seve Benson, Gary Clark and Simon Robinson, Wil Besseling of the Netherlands, Argentina’s Estanislao Goya and Miguel Rodriguez, Sweden’s Joakim Haegmann, Northern Ireland’s Michael Hoey, Scotland’s McArthur, Paraguay’s Marco Ruiz and Italy’s Alessandro Tadini at the 6,990 yards, par 72 course, which is located 20 miles south of Edinburgh.
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