03 July 2008

UniChem Heads to the Lakes For its Annual Golf Week

UniChem Ltd recently hosted its annual ‘Golf Week’ in the beautiful location of Lake Garda, Italy. The event was attended by pharmacists from across the UK, who spent the week honing their golfing skills on four of the most challenging and beautiful courses in Northern Italy.

The week consisted of two main competitions, the overall singles championship and a team event, whereby the delegates were split into four different teams based around the pharmacy schools that the pharmacists had qualified from. Competitors played each of the courses throughout the week earning points for their respective teams. The team representing the Schools of Pharmacy at Chelsea, London, Bath and Aston won the team competition following an amazingly tight contest against the team made up of pharmacists from Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford, Leicester and Cardiff Pharmacy Schools.

As well as the competitive games, golf clinics were run throughout the week with PGA Golf professional and current World Trick Shot Champion, Geoff Swain. Geoff’s display of “unusual” golfing techniques was one of the highlights of the week.

The overall winner of the singles event was Roy Gillman from Sheffield Pharmacy (pictured celebrating his winning putt and receiving his winner’s trophy from Jeremy Main of UniChem) who won a tough contest on ‘count back’ from Andre Patel of Andres Pharmacy in Harrow. Roy won a custom fit set of Callaway X20 golfing irons and will be visiting Callaway’s European HQ, to have his golf swing analysed and the clubs built to his exact specification.

Jeremy Main, Chief Operating Officer, UniChem says: “Lake Garda is a beautiful location with fantastic golfing facilities and many local attractions. This made it an ideal venue for this year’s event. The UniChem Golf Week is always a popular event attracting both customers and suppliers, who find it a great way to relax whilst networking with peers.”

This year’s main sponsors were Actavis, Alphega Pharmacy, Callaway Golf, GPS Visual Communications and TMB.

Details for UniChem’s 2009 Golf Week will be confirmed in the coming weeks and interested parties can now access more information on the Golf Week and other UniChem events by logging on to UniChem’s dedicated events website: www.unichemevents.co.uk.

For more information please contact:
Helena Bate, Communications Manager, UniChem, 0208 974 4044
Sanam Conway, Communications Executive, UniChem, 0208 974 4045