Cabinet to discuss funding support for major golf tournament
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Posted on: Monday 07 February 2022
The Cabinet of Bridgend County Borough Council, when it meets this week, will discuss contributing funding and officer support to the Senior Open Championship 2023.
It was announced last year that the Senior Open – Europe’s only senior major championship golf tournament – would return to the Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in 2023.
The tournament first visited Bridgend county borough in 2014 and saw more than 43,000 visitors travel to Porthcawl to watch Germany’s Bernhard Langer, the most successful player in Senior Major Championship history, triumph by an incredible 13 shots ahead of Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie.
Ahead of 2023, Cabinet will discuss a £50,000 contribution towards the event which will cover, as considered appropriate by the European Tour, the costs associated with factors such as hiring a playing field for use as an overflow car park, provision and distribution of cones to line any roads and all costs associated with local promotion and marketing, including local school initiative in partnership with Wales Golf.
A target for the 2023 event is to generate at least £3m of net additional spending into the Welsh economy, and a range of national and international media coverage including at least 600 hours of global TV broadcast coverage.
Cabinet will meet to discuss the provision of funding to the Senior Open at 2.30pm on Tuesday 8 February 2022.