We were delighted to have a good turnout at the Calcutta – players, families and sponsors. With a prize pot of £3600 this year’s winning bidder will collect £1300! Not surprisingly, attracting the top money were Teams Ulrsud, Brewster, Murdoch and De Cruz but, with the top teams evenly matched, is was hard to see a clear favourite. Among the outsiders attracting attention …
Report – Friday 3.45pm
Photo coverage from Friday 6th January, 2017, at 3.45pm
Report from Friday 1.30pm
Photos by Wiktoria Chorostkowska ….and more photo coverage from Perth Masters….
Tom Brydone’s – Perth Masters Photos
Thanks Tom Brydone for his excellent photo coverage of our event. For more photos – and to purchase copies – please check Tom’s Facebook page: Brydone Images
Report – Friday 6th – 10.15am
Photos by April Heggie
Opening session report – 2017
The opening session of Perth Masters 2017 saw big wins for Teams Brewster (Sco), Ulsurd (nor) Snitil (Cze) and MacDonald (Sco). MacDonald narrowly missed his opportunity for an 8 at the final end. Two very tight games went down to the final stone. Eskilsson won over Hess scoring a 2 at the last end to win 8-7. Grant Hardie (Sco) …
Live webcasts start
Live coverage of the 2017 Mercure City of Perth Masters has started with the opening match between Tom Brewster (Sco) and K Foss (Norway).
BBC radio interview
Dave Murdoch will be doing a radio interview on BBC Good Morning Scotland at 8.25am tomorrow morning (5th January) talking about the Perth Masters event this week.
Top class curlers head for Perth
National champions Team Brewster led by Olympic silver medallist Tom Brewster and his Sochi team mates skipped by David Murdoch will start their 2017 campaigns on home ice at the Mercure City of Perth Masters which gets underway at the Dewars Centre this week (5-8 January 2017). World Junior Champions Team Mouat and former national champion Ewan MacDonald, multiple holder …