SkyCaddie consumer Rob Coles took residence the Legends Tour’s flagship trophy on the weekend, with victory within the 2024 Staysure PGA Seniors Championship hosted by Colin Montgomerie.
Over 4 rounds Coles conquered the punishing Trump Worldwide Golf Hyperlinks with a -4 ultimate whole for his first Legends Tour victory, narrowly beating 1999 Open Champion Paul Lawrie by a single shot on the final inexperienced.
Each used their SkyCaddies all week, with Lawrie utilizing his new SkyCaddie PRO 5X along with his son Craig on the bag.
Coles and Lawrie, together with third place finisher Simon Khan, have been the one golfers within the 90-man subject to complete underneath par after a blustery weekend on the gorgeous but unforgiving Trump Worldwide course.
“I needed to scramble my manner round right now” stated Coles, “it was powerful and I leant on my brief recreation closely. Pars have been a great rating and all of us needed to be affected person on the market.
“As a result of my SkyCaddie usually exhibits you data which you merely can’t laser to, I take advantage of it in each aggressive spherical of golf” stated Coles, a 51-year outdated veteran of over 550 Tour occasions who certified for the event after victory in Might within the 2024 Senior PGA Skilled Championship, The PGA’s flagship senior occasion.
“The SkyCaddie is a key piece of my armoury, it offers you precise yardages immediately, and what they do on the Legends Tour is wonderful, together with importing the precise pin distances to your SkyCaddie.”
Coles topped a remarkably distinguished subject containing six Main-winners together with Lawrie, Michael Campbell, John Daly, Ian Woosnam, Joe Marie Olazabal and Shaun Micheel, plus ex-Ryder Cup Captains Colin Montgomerie and Paul McGinley, and plenty of former Ryder Cup gamers and a number of European Tour winners reminiscent of Peter Baker, Phillip Value, Thomas Levet, Jarmo Sandelin, Joakim Haeggman, David Gilford, Alex Cejka and Niclas Fasth.
17 of the highest 20 and ties in final week’s Staysure PGA Seniors Championship use a SkyCaddie, and in whole, 75% of the highest 60 finishers used SkyCaddie GPS through the week to assist them navigate Trump Worldwide Golf Hyperlinks, with its mountainous sand dunes and deep tough creating difficult blind pictures and frequent layups, all simply plotted utilizing SkyCaddie’s correct ground-mapped yardages.
SkyCaddie is the Official Distance Measurement System of the Legends Tour. The corporate’s Director of Gross sales & Operations EMEA, James Holmes, stated: “Like so lots of the finest gamers on the Legends Tour, Rob Coles makes use of SkyCaddie expertise to assist him carry out on the highest potential stage.
“Repeatedly, Tour winners are utilizing SkyCaddie, and as soon as once more – like in earlier seasons – opponents who’re utilizing SkyCaddie GPS are dominating the Order Of Advantage on this yr’s Staysure Tour, with an unbelievable 18 of the present Prime 20 within the OOM utilizing our correct yardages and shot-saving options reminiscent of IntelliGreen Professional and IntelliPath to handle their play.”
SkyCaddie’s official partnership with the Legends Tour Offered By Staysure comes after the agency spent a number of seasons growing behind-the-scenes relationships with each gamers and officers on the Tour, proving the expertise at dozens of tournaments.
Legends Tour officers now use SkyCaddie’s ground-mapped GPS yardages to create pin sheets when setting every day’s pins, enabling opponents each to obtain the day’s correct gap positions onto their SkyCaddies, and in addition to get a printed pin sheet for the day.
The Legends Tour, previously often known as the European Senior Tour, is probably the most prestigious skilled Tour on this planet which permits using distance measurement units throughout event play.
“With over 500 Tour wins between them, the SkyCaddie customers on the 2024 Legends Tour learn about successful” stated James Holmes. “That’s why they insist on having the very best data, and we’re proud that SkyCaddie expertise is confirmed to supply that on the highest-possible stage of accuracy.”
Observe the 2024 Legends Tour offered by Staysure at www.legendstour.com
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