Bristol Four Lift Chrysler Crown

Four Bristol golfers proved an unbeatable force and won the coveted Chrysler Golf Challenge at the world-renowned Turnberry course.M

Mark Patch, Mike Keepin, Steve Hood and Richard Trott proudly flew the flag for both Dick Lovett Chrysler and Jeep® of Bristol and Tracy Park Golf & Country Club at the grand final of the Chrysler event, supported by TaylorMade-adidas Golf.

It was a tense and thrilling finale to a great golfing event that, over the course of the year, attracted nearly 2,000 entries. In the end, just one point separated the Bristol foursome and a team representing Lookers Chrysler and Jeep® in Middlesbrough.

Ironically, though the foursome regularly play at Tracy Park in Wick, they had never met prior to winning their respective categories in a medal day competition organised at the Bath Road club. Their winning ways eased them through their Chrysler Golf Championship Regional Final at Bowood Golf & Country Club, in Wiltshire, last September.

Ian Allen (centre) of Dick Lovett Chrysler Jeep holds the Chrysler Golf Challenge Rose Bowl flanked by golf winners Mark Patch (4th from right), Steve Hood (third right), Mike Keepin (second right) and Richard Trott (second left) with former Eurpoean Tour professional Andrew Murray (left) Simon Elliott (MD of Chrysler UK) (3rd left) and Mark Richardson of TaylorMade adidas Golf.

Team captain Mark Patch, aged 33, of Westbury Park, Bristol, said: "It's quite ironic to think that while we all play at the same club, we'd never actually met prior to the presentation at our Chrysler Golf Championship medal day and now we're national champions. Just to play the world famous Ailsa course at Turnberry was like a dream come true for all four of us, but to actually win the event really has made our year"

Simon Elliott, Managing Director of Chrysler and Jeep in the UK, said: "Due to the phenomenal response we had in 2000, through the Chrysler Jeep Dealership Network, we decided to broaden the reach to consumers this year, by including a regional qualifier across 260 golf clubs in the UK. By increasing the number of participants, we have been extremely successful in introducing a further 44,000 people to the Chrysler Jeep brands. This success has largely been due to the partnership with TaylorMade adidas Golf, which continues into 2002 through the sponsorship of 2 Chrysler Voyager vehicles used in the Demo Tour. The grand final was a superb golf event which, thanks to the talents of those golfers representing Dick Lovett and Lookers, went down to the wire."

Mark Richardson, European Trade Activities Manager added: "It's a great partnership which worked very well for both companies last year. The TaylorMade adidas Golf Demo Tour ensures that we can place our hugely successful 300 Series metalwoods and irons into the hands of golfers from as far apart as Inverness down to Exeter and the Chrysler Voyagers prove the ideal vehicles to enable us to do that."

Together with the magnificent Chrysler Golf Challenge crystal rose bowl, which will take pride of place at Dick Lovett Chrysler Jeep® in Bristol, the quartet each walked away with trophies and a TaylorMade 300 Series Driver.