The Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles

28th – 31st August 2008

As an event on The PGA European Tour, the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles attracts a field of the world’s best professional golfers and this year will be the final qualifying event for the 2008 European Ryder Cup Team.

Once again the Championship will be held over The PGA Centenary Course, the venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup, from the 28th – 31st August, with a Pro-Am on Wednesday 27th August.

The chairman of the Championship is Ryder Cup Team member, Colin Montgomerie.

02 Sep 2007

Marc Warren Wins the Johnnie Walker Championship

Marc Warren birdied the second play-off hole to beat England’s Simon Wakefield and give the Scottish public the home victory they craved in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles.

Warren two-putted from 90 feet for a four after the pair had parred the 18th first time around. To scenes of wild enthusiasm, the Scot claimed his second European Tour success and his first on home soil after he and Wakefield had finished tied on 280, 12 under par. + full story

Play-Off Details

*The Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles is the ninth  play-off on The 2007 European Tour International Schedule, between The previous eight were: Johnnie Walker Classic: Anton Haig beat Richard Sterne and Oliver Wilson. Clariden Leu Singapore Masters: LiangWen-chong beat Iain Steel. Telecom Italia Open: Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño beat Markus Brier. Irish Open: Padraig Harrington beat Bradley Dredge. BMW PGA Championship: Anders Hansen beat Justin Rose. BA-CA Golf presented by Telekom Austria: Richard Green beat Jean-Francois Remesy The Barclays Scottish Open: Grégory Havret beat Phil Mickelson. The 136th Open Championship: Padraig Harrington beat Sergio Garcia.

*Marc Warren’s second  European Tour play-off. He beat Robert Karlsson in the 2006 Scandinavian Masters, in his only previous play-off.

*Wakefield has not played in a European Tour play-off before.

*There has been one play-off in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles

*The previous play-off saw Warren Bennett beat Rolf Muntz in 1999.