Lydd to host new Kent PGA Closed Championship

Lydd Golf Club looks set to raise its profile in the South East after being selected to host The PGA in Kent Closed Championship for the next three years.

The first staging of the newly-created tournament, which is open to Kent’s elite amateurs and PGA Professionals, is being held on April 22, with a prize fund of £3,000 on offer to the leading professionals, and plenty of prizes for amateur competitors.

Lydd’s chief executive Charles Buchanan, is relishing the opportunity to showcase the club to a wider audience. He said “I am very excited about the decision to host the tournament at Lydd, and its potential to raise the club’s profile, showcase the course to Kent’s premier golfers, and let them see its true strengths for themselves.”

He added: “Lydd is proving itself to be a fine modern golfing challenge designed in the links tradition. In keeping with that, the excellent work of our team over recent years has developed a course that is nicely exposed to winds that can change the challenge in minutes, combined with exceptionally fine greens that will test the very best players.”

County PGA Secretary Sam Smith was equally pleased. He said: “The PGA in Kent Closed Championship is really going to extend the ways in which we can make the relationship between both professional and amateur organisations and golfers, especially for those amateurs that want to pursue careers in golf, maybe even for some who are thinking about a future in The PGA.”

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