The event also has new sponsors, with Hillsborough Steel Stock having put up a £6,000 prize fund.

A field of 30 professionals and 30 amateurs will contest a championship last played at Huddersfield and won by Cherry Burton professional John Wells.

The top 20 in the Yorkshire Bank-Yorkshire PGA order of merit automatically qualify. A pro-am will be played the following day.

Meanwhile, Walton Golf Centre's Adrian Ambler equalled the course record of nine under par 61 to win the Yorkshire PGA pro-am at Roundhay by a couple of shots from Cleckheaton's Warren Lockett and Sheffield's Neil Cheetham, now on his way for another crack at the Sunshine Tour in South Africa.

Also in record-scoring mode was former Sand Moor amateur star Iain Pyman, the European Tour member now based near Selby.

He fired a winning 64 at The Oaks to win the Yorkshire PGA pro-am by two strokes from Crosland Heath's Europro Tour player Chris Hanson and Sheffield-based Challenge Tour man Gareth Davies.

Hanson went one better in the Yorkshire PGA pro-am at Otley, shooting five under par 65 to edge Dan Thomas and Peter Robinson by two.

Roundhay pro-am: 61 – A Ambler (Walton GC). 63 – N Cheetham (Hallowes), W Lockett (Cleckheaton). 64 – A Wainwright (Selby), A Hammond (Cherry Burton), A Belt (Bridlington Links). 65 – T Denby (UK Golf Direct), J Godbold (Waterton Park), M Hillas (Northcliffe). Leading team: 112 – M Hillas, D Tolson (12), A Patterson (16), D Fortnum (19).

The Oaks: 64 – I Pyman (unnat). 66 – C Hanson (Crosland Heath), G Davies (Abbeydale). 67 – O Whiteley (The Oaks). 68 – D Willett (The Oaks). 70 – F Kelley (Malton & Norton). 71 – G Wills (Fulford). 72 – D Stanley (Tankersley Park). Leading team: 96pts - C Hanson, J Bower (12), J Woodhead (4), R Morris (11). WPGA competition: 70 – L Jones (The Oaks), G Simpson (Huddersfield). 76 – A Keighley (Huddersfield).

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