Callaway’s Big Bag Trail raises £126,000 for charity – Golf News

To showcase the excellence of these designs, the sculptures of the ultimate 10 had been positioned in numerous places round St Andrews, as The Massive Bag Path turned a route from which locals and guests might discover all through the city, and proved to be a well-liked attraction for the record-breaking crowd of followers who flocked to attend this 12 months’s Championship.

The path included the successful design by 17-year-old Iona Turner, whose creation titled ‘Nessie’s Spherical to Play’, was chosen to be made into the official golf bag utilized by Callaway Employees Professionals competing at The one hundred and fiftieth Open.

Following the conclusion of the occasion on July 17, which noticed Cameron Smith turn into Champion Golfer of the 12 months, the sculptures had been moved from their places across the Dwelling of Golf to the St Andrews Hyperlinks Clubhouse the place they had been auctioned off by movie star auctioneer Charlie Langhorn.

All proceeds from the public sale will go to CHAS (Youngsters’s Hospices Throughout Scotland) and Scottish Sports activities Futures (Altering Lives By means of Sport).

Neil Howie, President and Managing Director, Callaway EMEA, stated: “This has been a really distinctive and fantastic mission. Seeing the designs created by the younger artists for the primary time gave us an actual sense that we had been on the highway to one thing particular. However to see them come to life as these 10 lovely sculptures, not forgetting Iona’s successful design that was made into the official bag utilized by our Employees Professionals in the course of the one hundred and fiftieth Open, has been an unforgettable expertise. We’re delighted to have raised a lot cash for 2 such worthy causes, whereas additionally selling the unimaginable neighborhood spirit that surrounds the Dwelling of Golf.”