The Northern Ireland Masters is a professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament that was played at Clandeboye Golf Club in
Newtownards
Newtownards is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough, 10 miles (16 km) east of Belfast, on the Ards Peninsula. It is in the Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Newtownard ...
, Northern Ireland. It was originally played as a one-off event on the
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and, as with on the main European Tour and the European Senior Tour, some of the events are played outside Europe.
History
The ...
in September 2003.
Darren Clarke
Darren Christopher Clarke, (born 14 August 1968) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions and has previously played on the European Tour and PGA Tour. He has won 21 tournaments worldwide on a ...
won the inaugural event by two shots ahead of
Stuart Little
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.
The event returned in 2021 as part of the
PGA EuroPro Tour
The PGA EuroPro Tour was a men's developmental professional golf tour. It was created in 2002 by the merger of two development tours, the EuroPro Tour and the PGA MasterCard Tour, as the Professional Golfers' Association and Barry Hearn's Matchr ...
's schedule. It was hosted by recent first-time
European Tour
The European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons), legally the PGA European Tour is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged fift ...
winner
Jonathan Caldwell
Jonathan James Caldwell (born 10 June 1984) is a professional golfer from Clandeboye, Northern Ireland.
Amateur career
Caldwell attended the University of South Alabama from 2004 to 2008. He competed in the 2007 Walker Cup.
Professional career
...
. The tournament was played again in 2022 on the PGA EuroPro Tour.
In 2023, the tournament moved onto the
Clutch Pro Tour, as the PGA EuroPro Tour had ceased operation at the end of 2022.
Winners
Notes
References
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External links
Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site(2003)
Former Challenge Tour events
Golf tournaments in Northern Ireland