The European Tour Sport Relief Challenge is on course to burst through the £100,000 mark at this week’s Barclays Scottish Open – on the same weekend that hundreds of thousands of people across the UK will be going the Extra Mile on Sport Relief Saturday.
The Tour has been supporting Sport Relief since its launch in 2002 and has raised £97,192 in that time, with the last contribution of £19,500 coming at the BMW Championship – The Players’ Flagship last month.
This week, title sponsors Barclays, host venue Loch Lomond Golf Club and The European Tour have all pledged their support to Sport Relief 2006. The system for raising the money sees the sponsor, the venue and the Tour each donate £250 per shot for the lowest score to par in every round.
That means, for example, that if someone can conjure a round of ten under par 61 at the fabulous Loch Lomond Golf Club this week, then Sport Relief would receive 10 x £750 = £7,500.
In addition to the Tour’s Sport Relief Challenge, Barclays will also run a competition with BBC Radio 5 Live that will see two thirds of the money raised from entry fees to the competition going to Sport Relief.
Sport Relief is brought to you by Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, and brings the worlds of sport and entertainment together to raise much needed cash to help vulnerable people leading tough lives here at home in the UK, and in the poorest countries in the world. Since its launch in 2002 it has raised over £30 million.
This Saturday, July 15, will see people all over Britain running a mile to raise funds for Sport Relief.
