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Event
Information:
Alfred
Dunhill sponsors golf tournaments,
formerly the Alfred Dunhill Cup,
currently the Alfred Dunhill Links
Championship. Played over three of
the most famous links golf courses –
the Old Course at St. Andrews,
Carnoustie and Kingsbarns in
Scotland – the championship gathers
celebrities from the worlds of
sports and screen to play alongside
the world’s leading professional
golf players.
The
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship,
is one of the richest golf
tournaments on the European Tour. It
is played in October, on three
different links courses, centred
around the "home of golf", St
Andrews in Fife, Scotland.
The
tournament is a pro-am, with teams
of one professional and one amateur
playing one round each at St
Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns.
Following these first three rounds
there is a cut, with the leading 60
professionals continuing on to play
in the final round at St Andrews.
They are joined by the leading 20
teams, regardless of whether the
professional member of the team made
the cut individually.
Originally called the Dunhill Links
Championship, the event was
introduced in 2001 as a replacement
for the Alfred Dunhill Cup, a three
man team tournament which became
marginalised when the long
established World Cup of Golf was
given enhanced status as part of the
World Golf Championships in 2000,
becoming the WGC-World Cup.
To
increase interest in the event, many
of the amateurs are well known
personalities from the worlds of
sport and entertainment. These have
included Nigel Mansell, Ian Botham,
Gary Lineker, Boris Becker, Michael
Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael
Vaughan, Sir Matthew Pinsent, and
Hugh Grant. The closest equivalent
to the Alfred Dunhill Links
Championship on the PGA Tour is the
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
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