Manassero boosts Putts4Charity in Italy

Genworth’s Putts4Charity Challenge made a return to The European Tour at this week’s 70° Open d’Italia LINDT, where Matteo Manassero took time out of his hectic schedule to help The Tour Players’ Foundation Tour team to a victory over Genworth and Grégory Bourdy on Friday afternoon.

The new look Putts4Charity format, introduced for 2013, sees two European Tour players teaming up with a Genworth representative and a Tour representative to form two teams who compete against each other on the specially constructed Putts4Charity putting greens in the tented village.<br /><br />The Genworth Foundation makes a donation of €2,000 to SOS Children’s Villages on behalf of the winning team after each Challenge.<br /><br />The Challenge at the 70° Open d’Italia LINDT was the fifth of a six-match series, with Manassero and Tournament Director José Maria Zamora defeating Bourdy and Bruno Patroncini – Genworth’s Country Sales Leader in Italy – to make the series score 3-2 to Genworth. The final match-up of the 2013 season set to take place at the Turkish Airlines Open in November.<br /><br />Manassero was delighted to have played his part, commenting: “It was a lot of fun playing in the Putts4Charity Challenge and it is always a pleasure to be able to help good causes such as the SOS Children’s Villages.”<br /><br />Putts4Charity also engages with tournament spectators at the European Tour tournaments where it features by challenging the public to make a successful “one putt” on the Putts4Charity greens.<br /><br />Each successful attempt by a spectator generates €1, plus an additional €2 is donated when a European Tour player makes a one putt out on course. Like the Challenge Series, all funds are donated by the Genworth Foundation.<br /><br />Putts4Charity has generated donations exceeding €1 Million to date and has already helped to change the lives of thousands of orphaned and abandoned children across Europe and China through grants to SOS Children’s Villages.<br /><div><br />
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