Sam Torrance will be honoured at next month’s Scotland Golf gala night with a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.
Torrance’s name is synomous with Scottish golf and he will become the third recipient of the SGU’s Lifetime Achievement accolade when the event takes place on Friday 23 March at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow.
The career of the popular 58-year-old will be recognised in a year marking the 10th anniversary of the Largs-born player’s successful captaincy of the European Ryder Cup team at The Belfry and the 40th anniversary of his maiden professional triumph.
Torrance, a charismatic personality in European golf, will follow in the spike marks of former Open champion Paul Lawrie and eight-time European Tour Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie, who received their accolades 12 months ago.
Sam Torrance to be honoured at next month's gala Scottish Awards evening. (Photo - www.golfbytourmiss.com)
“I am privileged to be receiving the Scottish Golf Lifetime Achievement Award and thoroughly looking forward to the evening,” said Torrance.
“I have enjoyed a wonderful career and I would like to think I am not finished yet! I have many great memories and I look forward to sharing them with Scotland’s golf fans on the night.
“I love to play golf in Scotland and I love to come home to Scotland. This will be another memorable occasion for me at the Home of Golf.”
Torrance’s Award, sponsored by Allied Surveyors Scotland, reflects a glittering career, in which the Scot claimed 21 European Tour victories and, to date, 11 European Senior Tour wins and three European Senior Tour Order of Merit titles.
Torrance was also a member of the 1995 Dunhill Cup winning side and he has the distinction as well of capturing an Australian PGA Championship by denying success to the late Seve Ballesteros.
However it is Torrance’s showing on the Ryder Cup stage that will be long remembered.
He made eight consecutive Ryder Cup appearances between 1981 and 1995, winning three times, and famously holed the winning putt at The Belfry in 1985 to secure Europe’s first win over America in 28 years.
Following his captaincy heroics in 2002, Torrance will be reunited with the iconic Ryder Cup trophy at the Crowne Plaza along with the Solheim Cup, the Walker Cup and famed Claret Jug that will all be on show to complete a truly unique gathering of golf’s most coveted trophies.
The Scottish Golf Union advise a limited number of tickets are still available for the event, with tables of 10 priced at £700 or individual places at £75 per person.
To book, call the Ticket Hotline on 01334 466477 or purchase on-line via www.scottishgolf.org.
Joining Torrance will be Alison Nicholas, Europe’s 2011 Solheim Cup-winning captain, who be a star guest on the night, while ‘SGU Amateur Golfer of the Year’ Michael Stewart, and a member of the victorious Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup side at Royal Aberdeen in September, will also be in attendance.
