Scottish sporting stars Robert MacIntyre and Andy Murray will staff up for the BMW PGA Championship Superstar Professional-Am at Wentworth later this month.
Murray, a three-time Grand Slam champion and former world No 1, retired from tennis after the Paris Olympics this summer time on the age of 37.
He will probably be making his Superstar Professional-Am debut at Wentworth on the Wednesday, September 18 occasion that serves because the warm-up to the BMW PGA Championship that takes place from the Thursday, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
Murray may have the right associate within the type of MacIntyre, who was a part of Europe’s victorious Ryder Cup staff final 12 months and adopted that up with a primary PGA Tour win on the Canadian Open and additional success on the Scottish Open in 2024.
MacIntyre mentioned of his Professional-Am associate: “Andy is a hero to so many individuals in Scotland – and the world over – and it is fairly thrilling to be taking part in alongside him in his BMW PGA Championship debut.
“He’s been absolutely dedicated to tennis during his incredible career, but it looks like he’s been playing plenty of golf since his retirement, so I’m looking forward to seeing if all that practice has paid off!”
Murray will characteristic within the Professional-Am alongside a bunch of different movie star names, together with footballers Gareth Bale, Jordan Pickford and Troy Deeney, cricketers James Anderson and Ollie Pope, TV star and comic Michael MacIntyre and Hollywood actor Tom Holland.
MacIntyre, in the meantime, varieties a part of a world-class discipline for the BMW PGA Championship correct when that will get underway on Thursday, together with Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Matt Fitzpatrick and Justin Rose, with Ryan Fox returning to defend his title
Fellow former winners Luke Donald, Billy Horschel, Francesco Molinari and Danny Willett are additionally among the many discipline, as is current Omega European Masters winner Matt Wallace.
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