The event is sponsored by Better Homes.

The three-day event will commence with a sponsors’ golf day on Monday September 10 with a sports dinner in the evening..

The guest speaker for the dinner will be former rugby league player and coach of the Queensland Maroons, Newcastle Knights and Parramatta Eels, Michael Hagan.

The pro-am will be played over 36 holes on Tuesday and Wednesday.

A quality field has nominated for the event which carries prize money of $25,300. An added bonus this year is a unique prize of $10,000 if the same professional wins both the Kew and Port Macquarie Pro-Am’s.

Winner of the 2017 event, Matt Millar, equaled the course record in the first round with 63. Pending European Tour commitments Millar is hoping to play again this year.

Previous winners Steven Jeffress, Leigh McKechnie and Edward Stedman will compete in this years’ event, plus several players who have won the club’s principal amateur event, the Seaside Classic.

Local junior Jeffress won the 2016 event, while McKechnie always plays well at Port Macquarie and will be attempting to win his third pro am at the venue. Stedman has won the Better Homes event three times.

Craig Parry, Mitchell Brown, Nathan Green, Callan O’Reilly, Tim Hart and Andre Stoltz are just some of the quality professionals who have entered for this years’ pro-am. Local hopes include Ben Hamilton and David Hughes plus resident professionals James Single, Belinda Hodson and Joshua Main.

A field of over 60 professionals will tee off with the amateurs on Tuesday and Wednesday. In addition to playing for the prize purse the professionals will play in the Team Event with the amateurs. 

On Monday some of the professionals will put on a golf demonstration of their skills at 9.30am and will be followed by a long drive competition. That night the dinner will be compered by radio personality Cliff Bamford and a number of the professional golfers will be attending. Dinner bookings are available at $60 per head and can be made by contacting Port Macquarie Golf Club on 6582 0409.

The Port Macquarie Golf Course is a testing layout and has a course record of 63 set by Paul Marantz in the 2001 Better Homes Pro Am and equaled in the 2002 Seaside Classic by Nathan Goodchild and again in the 2017 Better Homes Pro Am by Matt Millar. 

Members of the public are invited to come and watch these talented golfers ply their trade. A seeded draw will be used on Wednesday with the leaders hitting off 12.30pm and final stages on the back nine from 3pm onwards.

Better Homes through their partnership with the Black Dog Institute will donate $100 for each shot under par by the winning professional.