Want to play golf AND save lives? Join Prostate Cancer UK’s Big Golf Race in 2025
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Prostate Cancer UK have announced The Big Golf Race will be back for a sixth consecutive year as the charity looks to fund life-saving projects – including “Transform”, their most ambitious screening trial in more than 20 years.
Launched in 2020, The Big Golf Race has become the biggest golf fundraising challenge in the UK, with more than 14,000 golfers raising £4.5 million to help fund research to radically improve the way prostate cancer is diagnosed and treated.
This year, Prostate Cancer UK are encouraging more golfers to “go the distance” to help prevent what is now the most diagnosed cancer in England, affecting one in eight men.
Or, to put it another way, one golfer in any two fourballs on any given golf course.
So how can you get involved in The Big Golf Race 2025?
As always, there are three options: the 36-hole half-marathon, the 72-hole marathon, or the 100-hole ultra-marathon.
What’s more, every golfer who raises at least £250 will be entered into a draw to win a holiday to the stunning Aphrodite Hills resort in Cyprus, while the overall top fundraiser will bag themselves £3,000 worth of gear from Titleist.
Simon Grieveson, the assistant director of research at Prostate Cancer UK, said: “Over the years, golfers have played a massive part in enabling us to launch research projects like Transform, which aims to definitively show the best way to screen men for prostate cancer, and in doing so providing earlier diagnoses, and saving thousands of lives a year.”
TG was in attendance as The Big Golf Race 2025 was officially launched at Pitch, in London.
In attendance were Scotland’s most decorated Olympian, Duncan Scott, and international rugby union star, Kenny Logan, who was successfully treated for prostate cancer in 2022.
Commenting on his own prostate cancer journey, Logan explained the importance of education.
“Playing professional sport, you think you’re untouchable,” he said. “As you get older, you realise these things can happen and knowing that one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer reflects how important it is for men to know their risk.”
Eight-time Olympic medallist Scott will also be supporting fellow Olympian Sir Chris Hoy’s ‘Tour de 4’ ride, raising money for Prostate Cancer UK, along with four other cancer charities this September.
He said: “The Big Golf Race is a brilliant way of combining a fun day out on the course with mates with raising money for vital prostate cancer research, so it’s a real win-win.
“Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, and it doesn’t discriminate. Take Sir Chris Hoy, for example. His experience has really shone a light on the disease and the need for a prostate cancer screening programme, so knowing that the money raised through The Big Golf Race could help to deliver that is really exciting.
“I’ve never played more than two rounds in a day, so I’ve got massive respect for everyone taking on 72 – or even 100 holes – and raising money for a great charity.”
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This will be the sixth year of The Big Golf Race, raising money for Prostate Cancer UK.
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Kenny Logan and Duncan Scott chat during Prostate Cancer UK's The Big Golf Race 2025 launch.
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How you can help save lives by playing golf in Prostate Cancer UK's Big Golf Race 2025.
