Lawrie launches new European Tour event

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The Paul Lawrie Match Play will be held at Murcar Links Golf Club from July 30 to August 2 and will boast a prize fund of €1million, with 64 of the Tour's leading players taking part in a straight knockout format.

And Lawrie has expressed his joy at being able to launch a new tournament - to be held for the next three years - in Aberdeen.

"I'm delighted to be announcing this new tournament and it's fantastic to be bringing another European Tour event to my home town of Aberdeen," beamed Lawrie. 

"Match play is a format that we don't get to play too often out on Tour, and so it's an exciting opportunity for an elite knockout tournament to come to Scotland." 

Tour chief executive George O'Grady added: "Paul Lawrie has been a strong and loyal supporter of the European Tour over the past three decades, as well as one of our finest players and ambassadors.

"We are therefore delighted that he is putting something back into the game at the highest level of European golf with this new match play event, on top of the commendable work he does at grassroots through the work of the Paul Lawrie Foundation." 

Lawrie is Scotland's most recent major winner, having triumphed at The Open in 1999.

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