• Team Scottish Hydro

  Welcome to Team Scottish Hydro

  Scottish Hydro is delighted to support the promising golf talent that Scotland generates. We look forward to aiding financially and strategically the players’ development and to watching their progress over the year ahead.

  
  

  

  01

  Gavin
  Dear

  

  02

  Chris
  Doak

  

  03

  Craig
  Lee

  

  04

  Callum
  Macaulay

  

  05

  Jamie
  McLeary
• Scottish Hydro Challenge

  Welcome to Scottish Hydro Challenge

  As we enter our third year of support Scottish Hydro are, once again, proud to act as Title Sponsors to this key event in Scottish Golf. Along with all our partners the Event continues to go from strength to strength.

  
  

  • Challenge 2011
  • Event History
  • Event Partners

  • Image Galleries
  • Volunteering
• Scottish Hydro
  National Competition 2012

  Play your part and join the team

  National Competition will be coming in 2012, email us your clubs name and secretary scottishhydrogolf@gmail.com to ensure your club receives the competition information.

  
  

  • SHNC 2012
  • Prizes
  • Registration Form

  • Register your interest
  • Is your club registered?
  • SHNC 2011

  • Results 2011
  • Image Gallery 2011
  • Terms & Conditions
• The Clubhouse
• Sponsors & Partners
• Testimonials

Scottish Hydro Challenge

• Challenge 2011
• Event History
• Event Partners
• Image Galleries
• Volunteering

Team Scottish Hydro

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Event History

Inaugurated in 2006, as a direct result of Scotland’s successful bid to host the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, the Scottish Hydro Challenge, has, by virtue of its consistently high prize fund, become one of the most important events on the European Challenge Tour’s global schedule.

The first Scottish Hydro Challenge, won by Englishman Sam Walker, was contested at Murcar Links before the tournament moved to the Macdonald Cardrona Hotel and Golf Resort in 2007, beginning a relationship that has seen the Macdonald Hotels Group, alongside title sponsors Scottish Hydro and Government supporters EventScotland, become a key partner to the event.

Englishman Robert Dinwiddie (2007) was followed into the winner’s enclosure at Cardrona by Dutchman Taco Remkes in 2008 before the tournament found a new home, at the magnificent Macdonald Spey Valley Golf Course, in the Scottish Highlands.

That move north coincided with successive home winners in Jamie McLeary (2009) and George Murray (2010), with both men using home advantage to the fullest.

Of the five past winners of the event, Walker, Dinwiddie, Remkes and Murray all went on to secure a place on The European Tour in the same year they won in Scotland, making the Scottish Hydro Challenge title one of the most coveted on the Challenge Tour, where the top 20 players at the end of each season win promotion to The European Tour.