Opening session report – 2017

The opening session of Perth Masters 2017 saw big wins for Teams Brewster (Sco), Ulsurd (nor) Snitil (Cze) and MacDonald (Sco). MacDonald narrowly missed his opportunity for an 8 at the final end. Two very tight games went down to the final stone. Eskilsson won over Hess scoring a 2 at the last end to win 8-7. Grant Hardie (Sco) …

Live webcasts start

Live coverage of the 2017 Mercure City of Perth Masters has started with the opening match between Tom Brewster (Sco) and K Foss (Norway).

BBC radio interview

Dave Murdoch will be doing a radio interview on BBC Good Morning Scotland at 8.25am tomorrow morning (5th January) talking about the Perth Masters event this week.

Top class curlers head for Perth

National champions Team Brewster led by Olympic silver medallist Tom Brewster and his Sochi team mates skipped by David Murdoch will start their 2017 campaigns on home ice at the Mercure City of Perth Masters which gets underway at the Dewars Centre this week (5-8 January 2017). World Junior Champions Team Mouat and former national champion Ewan MacDonald, multiple holder …

Welcome to Perth

We are delighted that this event continues to attract a stellar line-up of internationalists making this the biggest curling event to be hosted in Scotland on an annual basis, thanks to the support from the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, will help to elevate the profile of this tournament and the game.

2017 Entries Open

Entries are now open for the 2017 City of Perth Mercure Perth Masters January 5th-8th 2017. Contact curling@liveactive.co.uk to enter.

Tom Brydone’s photos

Thanks to Tom Brydone for his usual excellent coverage at Perth Masters again this year. You can visit his Facebook page to see his photos. Comments are welcome! https://www.facebook.com/brydoneimages/?fref=ts

Glasgow Herald report…

Four days of attritional competition ended in something of a flurry as Kevin Koe’s Canadian team beat fellow former world champion Thomas Ulsrud’s Norwegian rink in the Mercure City of Perth Masters title decider at the Dewar’s Centre. Attempts to get a helicopter on standby having fallen through as Ulsrud and his men sought to work out how to make …