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
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.
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….
UKKO Ambassador & Champions UK Celebrity Manager Oli Wilson recently sent in a picture with snooker legend Willie Thorne during the Age Concern Golf Day at Kilworth Springs GC. Oli is wearing our Blueberry “Strype” Polo.
If you have any pictures on the course or with a celeb in your UKKO gear please send us a copy to contact@ukko.com.
It’s not every day that one of the best rugby coaches in the land wears your clothing so we thought we’d spread the news.
As you can see from the pic, Mike and one of our Partners (Mark Bennett who runs PDSCoach) are in our Midnight Blue & White “Avery” and Midnight Blue “Crispin” polos respectively.
Looking good chaps
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
New UKKO London tour Professional James Busby (pictured wearing Lava Red “Maddox” Polo and White “Titanium” Belt) made an excellent T-2nd place at the first EuroPro Tour event at Wensum Valley GC in Norfolk. Great start to the season by James and we’re confidant it won’t be long before he records his first win of the season.
UKKO Tour Pro Ben Jones also showed some great form to finish only 4 shots behind James in T-20th.
Solid start to the season for the lads on the EuroPro.
UKKO Pro Ambassador & Urban Golf Head Pro Steve Smith recently won at Gog Magog GC to progress to the final at The Belfry in June. Click here for more details…
New UKKO Tour Professional & Alps Tour player Jason Kelly has recently signed up with our brand for the 2011 season and he’s immediately made an impact winning the Dubai Pro-am. More details about Jason soon, but in the meantime you can find out more about him on his website – www.jasonkellygolf.com
Pro-am write up….
Wentworth based professional Jason Kelly won the inaugural Pro-Am Tour in Dubai which featured play on four of Dubai’s finest courses, including the prestigious European Tour venues at Emirates Golf Club – Majlis Course, and The Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
Kelly who is playing in Europe on the Alps Tour this summer was thrilled to record his second win on The Pro-Am Tour, stating “I will take a lot of confidence from this win, especially as we played such great golf courses, which annually test the world’s best players”. He added: “Dubai is a fantastic destination for a Pro-Am Tour event, which was once again very well organized and attracted a great group of competitors”.
Garry Parker narrowly beat his fellow Knebworth professional James Pratt into second place in the professional individual event, while Simon Boyd led his Sotogrande based team of Simon Ingram, Oliver Ingram & Toby Ingram to victory in the Pro-Am team event.
Simon Boyd was also successful in a popular night golf event which was staged under the floodlights of the Faldo Course at Emirates Golf Club. After nine holes competitors enjoyed a mid round barbecue with the dramatic illuminated skyscrapers of Dubai Marina as a backdrop.
The Pro-Am Tour in Dubai is just one of a series of Pro-Am Tour events, which include, The Sawgrass Classic, The Pro-Am Tour at Pebble Beach, The California Classic, The Arizona Classic, The Scottsdale Classic, and The Las Vegas Classic Pro-Am, along with tailor-made golf packages including admission to The US Masters at Augusta and The Ryder Cup.
