OUR SPONSORS

CNR International

CNR International is a division of Canadian Natural Resources Limited, an independent oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

CNR International manage and operate all of their operations in the North Sea and Offshore West Africa from their Aberdeen Headquarters.

CNR International has a successful and significant portfolio of high equity operated assets in the UK sector of the North Sea – including Ninian, Murchison, Tiffany, Kyle and Banff fields.

In offshore West Africa they operate the Espoir and Boabab fields in Cote d’Ivoire, in Gabon they operate the Olowi field.

Canadian Natural & CNR International are both committed to their Corporate Mission Statement:

To develop people to work together to create value for the Company’s
shareholders by doing it right with fun and integrity.

European Tour

For many years, the European Tour has raised money for charities. In the past we have supported charities such as Rays of Sunshine, who provide wishes for terminally and seriously ill children, as well as Maggie’s Centre in Scotland, who care for those with living with cancer.

But 2018 sees the Tour embarking on a far greater, global philanthropic strategy, with the launch of the European Tour Foundation.

Through a programme of unique fundraising activities and the creation of empowering global charitable partnerships, the European Tour Foundation has an incredible opportunity to help improve lives and communities throughout the world.

Farmfoods

Farmfoods are frozen food specialists. Their roots are embedded in the distribution and handling of frozen food. They firmly believe in the benefits of frozen food and take great care to bring it to you in the best possible condition. In short, they take frozen food very seriously.

Farmfoods originated in Aberdeen in 1955 and has around 300 shops throughout Great Britain.

Today you’ll find your local Farmfoods selling a wide range of frozen food of the best quality at prices you’ll find nowhere else!

Hunting Energy Services

Hunting is an international energy services provider to the world’s leading oil and gas companies in the upstream sector. Established in 1874, Hunting PLC is a fully listed public company on the London Stock Exchange. From its global footprint, Hunting provides a focused range of products, proprietary technologies, engineering expertise and services below the wellhead to the world’s principle producing regions. This includes high specification casing and tubing with licensed and proprietary premium threadforms, in addition to a range of proprietary drilling tools including non-magnetic drill collars, directional drill rods, mud motors and Well Intervention pressure control equipment and tools on a sale or rental basis.

Our Well Construction division provides products and services to oil and gas customers in the drilling phase of exploration and production programmes, including OCTG casing and tubing, drill collars, mud motors and hole openers.

Our Well Completion division undertakes the global manufacture of threaded accessories and completion equipment, including flow couplings, pup joints, mule shoes, crossovers and threaded subs.

Our Well Intervention division spans the full range of intervention services including surface pressure control, wireline and thru-tubing tools & equipment. For example, Hunting Welltonic has a total focus on Thru Tubing services and thus is able to offer unique benefits to the coiled tubing industry, providing advanced solutions for a wide range of coiled tubing interventions. With highly skilled and experienced personnel at all our locations the services offered include tool management, tool rental, tool design and tool sales offered with full operational and engineering support.

R&A

Formed in 2004 and based in St Andrews, The R&A seeks to engage in and support activities that are undertaken for the benefit of the game of golf. It takes its name from The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, the members’ club that, before 2004, had responsibility for the game but from which The R&A is now separate and distinct.

The Paul Lawrie Foundation is one of six junior development initiatives headed by former Open Champions that The R&A supports. These programmes form part of an annual contribution to the development of the game that is in excess of £5 million.

The R&A organises The Open Championship, golf’s oldest Major, along with a number of other professional, amateur and junior events, some of which are sanctioned by other golfing bodies. In addition, The R&A assumes responsibility for the administration of the Rules of Golf with the consent of 143 organisations from the amateur and professional game, and on behalf of over 30 million golfers in 128 countries throughout Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

For the USA and Mexico, the USGA is the governing body, an organisation with whom The R&A has jointly issued the Rules of Golf since 1952.

John Lawrie Metals

John Lawrie Metals Ltd. is the leading provider of specialist metal reuse, recycling and decommissioning services, supporting organisations to meet net zero goals by embracing a circular economy approach. With facilities across the north-east of Scotland, the company is pushing the boundaries of how the effective management of waste and surplus metals can deliver tangible value to its customers and the environment.

Entier

Entier- the local, global food family

Entier provides exceptional food experiences for weddings, events and remote sites around the world.

With over 750 staff globally and a raft of top-notch corporate and personal clients, their unique approach, known as the Entier Way – has seen their evolution into a company that places people, service and quality at the heart of all their operations.

Entier works closely with corporate clients and public bodies, in addition to exceptional catering for weddings, private and corporate events and even has two wonderful ‘FRESH’ eateries providing freshly prepared, locally sourced business lunches each day.

Entier was founded with the ambition of  bringing a bespoke approach to creating exceptional food, investing in local communities and supporting local suppliers and putting employees – the Entier family – at the heart of the business.

Wherever their operations are – from Westhill to Western Australia – they invest in the communities in which they are based. That is why they support the Paul Lawrie Foundation.

If you would like to learn more about them, from the bespoke menus they can provide for your next event to their work in remote sites internationally, please visit their website and get in touch!

TEXO

Paul Lawrie Golf Centre

Set within the beautiful Royal Deeside the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre caters for the needs of all golfers.

Boasting a nine hole par three golf course, a 27 bay driving range and a world class short game area, the Centre also has three PGA Coaching Professionals on hand to provide instruction in fully equipped private coaching bays.

The Paul Lawrie Golf Centre experience is further enhanced by the bespoke custom fitting bay, well equipped shop and friendly coffee shop with views over the golf course and beyond.

Five Star Sports Agency

Established in 2018 by Paul Lawrie, the 1999 Open Champion, 5star is a sports management & events company founded on the experience Paul has amassed in his 35 plus year professional golf career. A Major Champion, Multiple Ryder Cup player & European Tour winner, Paul understands the importance of sound management and specialised representation and is uniquely placed to assist clients in making the best career choices, maximising their potential on and off the course. With a history of involvement in the staging and production of quality events, 5star events excels in delivering top class sporting & corporate client events.

The Mackay Clinic

Professor Gordon Mackay is a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon specialising in ligament and tendon repair. His patients include elite athletes and patients who want to remain active following injury.

A world-leading sports surgeon, researcher and the inventor of the revolutionary InternalBrace for ligament repair and reconstruction
When some of the world’s finest sportsmen and women need world-leading care, they turn to sports surgeon Professor Gordon Mackay MD, FRCS(Orth), FFSEM(UK), Dip Sports Med (Lon). He has worked extensively with the Scotland rugby team, Premier League football clubs, and Scotland’s Olympians. The official doctor for the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles and for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the Scottish orthopaedic surgeon is based at BMI Ross Hall Hospital in Glasgow and BMI Kings Park Hospital in Stirling.

Scottish Golf

Scottish Golf is the national governing body for the sport of golf in Scotland. Based at the Home of Golf in St Andrews, they provide support to Scotland’s affiliated golf clubs (c580), representing and adding value to around 180,000 golf club members.

Their role ranges from providing face-to-face support to the clubs, through to staging a series of national championships for golfers of all ages and abilities, while maintaining the handicap system to enable golfers of differing abilities, men and ladies alike, to compete on a fair and equitable basis.

Scottish Golf strive to promote, develop and govern golf for all generations and without barriers. Supporting clubs to be more welcoming, open and inclusive with a view to increasing membership for all, with a particular emphasis on women and young people; provide the insights, tools and resources that help golf clubs embrace the needs of demographic change, digital transformation and influence cultural change; identify and secure new investment channels to reinvest in the evolution and growth of the game in Scotland.

Gym Rental Company

The Gym Rental Company offers a flexible rental option to supply the state of the art and very latest equipment.

Their highly trained staff will safely install all your equipment to the highest standard.

Once fully satisfied with your gym layout we will supply you with regular visits to make sure all equipment is working to its highest standard.

Well-Safe Solutions

Well-Safe Solutions provides a groundbreaking approach to the safe and cost-efficient decommissioning of on and offshore wells.

Their specialist well abandonment service enables operators to meet the challenges and regulatory imperatives around decommissioning, while significantly reducing costs.

Bringing together a wealth of decommissioning oil and gas expertise and experience with dedicated bespoke marine and land-based assets and equipment, Well-Safe is the first-of-its-kind Tier 1 company offering the complete plug and abandonment (P&A) capability –  from front-end engineering and design, through to project execution and the retention and reintroduction of lessons learned.