UKKO Tour Ambassador James Busby (pictured wearing Midnight Blue “Maddox” Polo) has booked his place on next season’s Challenge Tour after winning the biggest event of the 2011 PGA EuroPro Tour season, the 888poker.com Tour Championships at the Intercontinental Mar Menor Golf Resort in Murcia, Spain.
James’s ability, hard work and determination have paid off as he won the £15,000 first prize and finishes 2nd on the EuroPro order of merit… which gives him automatic promotion to the European Challenge Tour for 2012.
Congratualtions from all of us at UKKO, we look forward to seeing you compete at the next level along with the other UKKO Challenge Tour Ambassadors Matt Cryer, Jack Doherty and Matthew Southgate.
You can see coverage of James’s last tournament – the 888Poker.com Tour Championships in Mar Menor, Spain – on Sky:
26th October 2011:
- 10am – Sky Sports 2
- 2pm – Sky Sports 2
- 8pm – Sky Sports 4
- 2.30am – Sky Sports 3
Ericsson were one of the key sponsors at the 2011 Ray Wilkins Charity Golf Day at Foxhills GC supporting the Starlight Children’s Charity. Joining UKKO Amateur Ambassador Malcolm Glen in UKKO were ex-fottballers Steve Coppell and Neil Cox.
Malcolm’s team of Steve Coppell, Steve Haines and Mick Wayman came 3rd overall (out of 33) and were definitely the best dressed!!
As you can see from the pictures below, the teams were wearing our Palace Blue “Avery” and Wine Red “Crispin” polo’s.
The 2011 Breakthrough Cup can only be described as a huge success.
First and foremost the charity was well supported and a lot of money was raised.
Secondly everyone had a great time… The Belfry Brabazon provided a great test of golf to all involved and the Champagne Reception / Dinner / Prize Giving were great fun.
Thirdly and most importantly for this blog was that we had some of our football idols in UKKO gear. Amazing for the brand.
Amongst those adorning our Pink Break “Vigo” Polo were;
- Robbie Fowler
- John Barnes
- Teddy Sheringham
- Lee Dixon
- Steve Harkness
- Jay Bothroyd
- Maik Taylor
- Simon Grayson
- Michael Duff
+ many other Premiership stars past & present.
It was also nice of Chris Evans to chopper in for a quick round too.. and take the mick out of our attempts to find the green on the 10th.
All in all a great day, thanks to everyone who helped to organise it.
UKKO Tour Ambassador Matthew Southgate finished a brilliant 2nd on the Challenge Tour in Scotland last weekend.
Matthew is enjoying a stellar start to his Professional career on the Challenge and his biggest pay-cheque to date of £24,200 Euro’s was the reward for his efforts.
As seen in the photo’s below, during the round he was wearing;
Racing Green “Vigo” Polo
Blueberry “Crispin” Polo
White “Titanium” Belt
More about his progress can be seen on the European Tour Website here;
UKKO Tour Ambassador James Busby finished 2nd at Longhirst Hall on the EuroPro Tour at the weekend, his second 2nd place finish of the season.
More here – http://www.europrotour.com/news/clark_wins_first_tour_event_since.htm
He’s also going well in the current EuroPro Tournament at Galgorm Castle in Northern Ireland, lying in T5 place after almost 2 rounds.
He continues to look like a solid bet for a decent Order of Merit placing come the end of the season.
Chris Cousins (2nd) and Martin Sell (3rd) both had a great time on the Jamega Tour tournament at Caversham Heath GC on Wednesday. Well played lads.
Chris was 8 under after the first 9 holes in the first round!
Read more here – http://www.jamegatour.co.uk/news-and-reports/tournament-reports.html
UKKO London are proud to annouce that we’re supplying the clothing for the Bang & Olufsen Junior Classic at Broom Manor Golf Club. A truly iconic global brand and another that does fancy TV’s! It’s an honour to be associated and working with the Swindon branch of B&O.
Big shout goes out to Nicholas Burch who won the inaugural event and congratulations to B&O for helping develop the Junior game in Wiltshire.
They polo’s they’re using are;
- Racing Green “Vigo” Polo
- Provincial Blue “Vigo” Polo
- Puree Red “Vigo” Polo
Pics of the 3 x shirts….
Following on from our previous post, the trusty UKKO camera was again used sparingly on our recent trip to the PGA at Wentworth. We must of had other things to do…
It came to life just in time to picture G-Mac who was sitting 5 ft away giving a few words of wisdom in the BMW tent. Good timing.
This photo has no connection to UKKO other than we were there and took the shot as he’s not in our clothing… yet…
It’s not often an Olympic legend starts rifling round your drawers. So we stopped him and asked for a quick picture which he was of course happy to provide.
It’s the only picture of our presence at this years GolfLive event at The London Club. The memory card wasn’t exactly overworked but it came up trumps when called on.
Hope you’re liking the shirts Steve. If you’re wondering, he ended up choosing Palace Blue “Avery” and Coral Orange “Crispin” Polo’s… both awesome tops, especially with a tan.
Congratulations goes to UKKO London & Urban 18 Tour Player Martin Sell who has brought home the bacon for the first time already this season.
Martin has worked really hard over the Winter with his coach and it’s obviously paid off. Well done Martin. Martin wins @ Mentmore with a massive score of -13 for two rounds. Read his blog below to find out how he did it… Mind you, the UKKO Clothing has got to be helping.
“Having teamed up with top coach Matt Woods during the winter, and showing some promising signs in the first few Jamega Tour events of the season I knew that i was close to putting together some good performances. Two weeks ago after a poor week I went back to work with Matt to see if we could Iron out a couple of shots that were causing me concern, after a fantastic session I was upbeat about the upcoming event !
So with some newly found confidence I trotted off to
The Shire GC where i put together a couple of solid rounds and finished 4th. A step in the right direction and a shot of some much needed confidence. Roll on
the next event.
This weeks event took place at Mentmore Golf & Country club near Leighton Buzzard, a venue I had had decent results on before and a course where I knew you had to go low to be successful. After finishing 2nd in the pre tournament Pro-AM I was feeling happy with my game and looking forward to the days ahead.
There was a stiff breeze blowing for the first round and I played extremely solid golf. Recording 6 birdies an eagle and a three putt bogey I signed for a 7 under par 65, my lowest round of the season so far. I was obviously delighted with my score but I was happier with just how in control of the golf ball i was, I hit almost every shot just how I wanted to.
As Round 1 drew to a close it was apparant that it was a day for low scoring
as I was joined at the top of the leaderboard at -7, and with about 15 players
within 3 shots it was going to be an interesting final round.
After a good nights rest I arrived at the course to find similar conditions as round 1.
I was looking forward to playing and missed the feeling of leading a golf tournament. When you’re in contention at any tournament the first thing you want to do is to get off to a steady solid start, therefore my start of Bogey, Par, Par, Bogey, Bogey (+3 through 5) was far from ideal and not at all what I was looking for ! After giving myself a my needed kick up the backside on the 6th tee I birdied the following 2 holes and pared 8&9 to turn in +1 (-6 overall). A good back nine was needed !!
The 10th was a good opportunity to get another shot back and I achieved the desired Birdie 4 on the short Par5. Looking at the Leaderboard I could see that I was 3 shots adrift of the leaders, it was time to get my head down and play a flawless nine holes if i was to win this tournament. Birdies on 11, 14 & 15 saw me tied at the top with three players on -10, a good 7 iron into the par 3 16th and a successful putt from 12 feet put me out ahead. Boarding the 17th (a reachable par5 that i had eagled on day 1) I knew that this was now my tournament to lose. I hit a good drive and a great approach leaving me a putt from around 15feet for an eagle 3, the putter had really warmed up on the back nine and the following eagle putt rolled right into the middle of the cup giving me a 2 shot a lead with only the 18th to play. After missing the 18th green with a mid iron I left myself a tricky chip to the pin but played a great shot to within a few feet and roled the putt in for the first VICTORY of the 2011 season !!!
It was great to win early season and helped affirm that the things Matt and I have been working on are coming to fruition. With confidence high I cant wait for the next
tournament!”
Watch this space……………………… Martin
