Travis Perkins plc is celebrating 10 years of sponsoring the European Senior Tour Travis Perkins Masters Tournament at Woburn Golf Club.
The family event, which is attended by thousands of golfing fans over the weekend of the 1st – 3rd September will welcome an additional visitor this year – Travis Bearkins the company’s new mascot who will be on hand to meet and greet guests and maybe even try out the crazy golf course with some younger players.
The building materials supplier, based in Northampton, has collated a series of 10 fascinating facts for golf gurus about its involvement with the Travis Perkins Masters over the years and is encouraging people to recall their favourite golfing moments during Travis Perkins Masters on social media using the hashtag #TPMasters
Did you know that between 2008 and 2016:
- There have been 168,621 spectators
- There have been 1,412 hours of TV coverage
- There were 34,560 practice range balls used
- 19 Ryder Cup players took part in the competition
- The total prize money paid since was £2,605,000
- Seven professionals have competed in the nine events to date: Gordon Brand Jnr, Ross Drummond, Nick Job, Carl Mason, Andrew Mason, Manuel Pinero and Sam Torrance
- Three holes-in-one have been scored in the 10 years to 2016
- Travis Perkins opened its first store in Ireland
- In 2008, Travis Perkins employed 17,500 people across 1,200 locations – today it’s almost 28,000 at over 2,000 locations.
- Travis Perkins has provided 10 minibuses to children’s charities at every one of the Masters events.
Every year the company donates a minibus to a school to mark the sponsorship of the Travis Perkins Masters event. This year it donated a minibus to Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children. To show their thanks the children from Blanche Nevile, and their mainstream partner school, Highgate Primary who shares the same school site, designed special 10 year celebration cards for the company.
Stephen Falzon, from Travis Perkins branch, Alexandra Palace, said: “It’s fantastic to see the children get so involved in our event at Woburn and as their local branch we were delighted to be asked to be involved.”
William Dean, Interim Head Teacher at the school said: “All the staff and children at Blanche Nevile are thrilled to be receiving a Variety minibus sponsored by Travis Perkins. It was a real pleasure for us all to meet the representatives from Travis Perkins and for the children to share their gratitude by designing a thank you card. The minibus will help expand and enrich the education of all our Deaf children and bring many new opportunities; we are delighted and incredibly appreciative.”
John Carter, CEO of Travis Perkins, said: “We are incredibly proud to be celebrating our 10th year at Woburn as sponsor of the Travis Perkins Masters. We started life as a family business more than 200 years ago and upholding family values is one of our cornerstones or values we encourage. In this anniversary year at Woburn we are hoping to encourage more families and young people to come along and find out more about golf from the professionals, watch them in action and spend time enjoying the atmosphere at Woburn Golf Club.
“This is a real community event for us and we’re delighted to support the community too. We’re thrilled the children have taken the time to design a card for us and it shall be displayed proudly as a reminder of all the vehicles we’ve been able to provide across the local area, supporting children in the time we’ve been sponsoring this great event.”
The event takes place on the Duke’s Course at Woburn Golf Club on September 1st, 2nd and 3rd and is part of the European Senior Tour. Tickets are available by calling 01344 840550 or online at www.europeantour.com/tickets
