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North East businesses bid for Sky TV golf package

NORTH East businesses are being offered the chance to win a sponsorship package worth £18,000, which will see them on Sky TV as part of a promotion for a new golfing event in the region.

The Great North Golf Tour which will be teeing off in March next year, are encouraging businesses to bid against their rivals for a share of limited advertising space.

No matter how small the amount, the top five highest bidders will see their sponsorship banners on screen when the events are televised on The Golf Locker TV (Sky TV channel 203).

Jamie O’Neill, Managing Director of The Golf Locker TV, said: “The choice of the venues is, in our view, the most critical part of organising such a golf tour.

“We wanted the tour to be based in the North of England and to take in the largest cities in the North. We have selected courses that will be of a true challenge to the golfers, with everything from Parklands and links to moorland.”

Three venues in the region are among eight courses across the North of England that will host the Great North Golf Tour, which aims to give amateurs the experience of a professional tour by playing under the glare of TV cameras and against the backdrop of sponsorship banners.

The tour starts next March at Linden Hall, Northumberland, before taking in Dunstanburgh Castle, also in Northumberland, in July and finishing at Close House in Newcastle in October.

Alongside the North East dates, it heads to Doncaster in April, Keighley in May and Manchester in June, with Liverpool and York also featuring in the second half of the tour.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .