The R&A has announced its venues for the amateur championships and international matches in 2027.
The 132nd Amateur Championship will be staged at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland from June 14-19. Stroke play qualifying will take place over the club’s Dunluce and Valley links, with the match play stages on the Dunluce. A pre-qualifier will also be held on June 11 over the Valley.
Royal Portrush has held The Amateur Championship on three previous occasions, most recently in 2014 when Scotland’s Bradley Neil triumphed.
The 124th Women’s Amateur Championship will be hosted at Royal Cinque Ports in Kent for the third time next year. The famed links on England’s south-east coast – a Final Qualifying venue for The Open – will welcome the world’s best women amateurs for the first time since 1988. It will also mark the 125th anniversary of the staging at the venue in 1902.
The R&A Girls’ Amateur Championships will be held at Burnham & Berrow in Somerset from August 9-14, while Prince’s Golf Club in Kent will stage The R&A Boys’ Amateur over the same dates.
The R&A Women’s and Men’s Senior Amateur championships will be played concurrently at Blairgowrie Golf Club in Scotland from July 6-9.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, Chief Championships Officer at The R&A, said, “It is important for The R&A to continue to underline the status of our amateur championships and international matches as leading events in amateur golf. They provide a pathway for elite golfers and give life-changing opportunities, including those that offer exemptions to The Open and the AIG Women’s Open.”
He added: “We aim to attract the best amateur players from around the world in 2027 and look forward to staging our championships at some of the sport’s most prestigious venues.”
International matches between GB&I and the Continent of Europe will also take place in 2027 with the Jacques Léglise Trophy and the Junior Vagliano Trophy contested at Golf de Morfontaine in France from August 20-21.
The dates and venues for the St Andrews Trophy and the Vagliano Trophy in 2027 are still to be confirmed, as are the dates for The Women’s Amateur Championship.
For this year’s championships in Great Britain and Ireland, entries open at the end of this week. Full details can be viewed at www.randa.org