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Royal
and Ancient announce championship venues
ST. ANDREWS,
Fife -- Carnoustie, which next year hosts the Open Championship,
will also be the venue for the Boys Championship from Monday
12th to Saturday
17th August 2002, as announced by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club
of St. Andrews in a comprehensive list of venues and dates.
The Boys Championship
has been played there on three previous occasions, 1933, 1939 and
1957 although significantly this will be the first time since 1957
that the Boys will be played over a course currently on the Open
rota.
Prior to the
Boys Championship, the Boys Home Internationals will be played from
Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th August over the tight tree-lined Lansdowne
Course at Blairgowrie, a complete contrast to the exposed Carnoustie
links. The most recent R&A event hosted by Blairgowrie was the 1996
Seniors Championship won by American Joel Hirsch.
For many years
Hirsch has been a regular competitor in the Seniors which in 2002
will be played over the Hotchkin and Bracken courses at Woodhall
Spa, the headquarters of the English Golf Union.
Muirfield was
announced earlier this year as the Open venue in 2002 when it will
host the Championship for the fifteenth time. Harold Hilton was
the first to win there in 1892, the same year that the Open was
extended to 72 holes and played over two days.
Nick Faldo
was the most recent winner at Muirfield in both 1987 and 1992. Final
Qualifying for the latter was played at Gullane No 1, Luffness New,
North Berwick and Dunbar, the same four courses that will be used
in 2002. This year Gullane staged the European Boys Team Championship
and also jointly hosted the Amateur Championship. Luffness New fulfilled
the same role for the 1990 Amateur Championship while North Berwick
will host next year's Vagliano Trophy when the ladies from GB&I
take on their Continental counterparts. Dunbar has a history of
hosting national events, particularly the Scottish Boys, and also
staged the Scottish Amateur in 1996. One year earlier the Boys Internationals
and Championship were played there.
In 2002 the
Amateur Championship will return to Royal Porthcawl for a sixth
time. It was last played there in 1988 when Sweden's Christian Hardin
was victorious. More recently it staged the memorable 1995 Walker
Cup match in which GB&I beat the United States by 14-10. Gary Wolstenholme
was a member of that winning side and this year at Ganton the 38
year old, a member of the triumphant 1998 Eisenhower Trophy team,
added to his considerable collection of titles with a 19th hole
win over Sandy Twynholm in the British Mid-Amateur Championship.
That was Wolstenholme's third win in three appearances in the Championship
which in 2002 will be played at Formby, a club which has hosted
many R&A events including the Amateur, Boys and Seniors Championships.
| Tournament |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
| Amateur
Championship |
Royal
County Down,
Kilkeel,
May 31-June 5 |
Royal
Liverpool,
Wallasey,
June 5-10 |
Prestwick,
Kilmarnock (Barassie),
June 4-9 |
Royal
Porthcawl,
Pyle & Kenfig,
June 3-8 |
Open
Championship
Regional Qualifying |
July
5 |
July
10 |
July
9 |
July
8 |
Open
Championship
Final Qualifying |
Downfield,
Monifieth Links,
Montrose Links, Panmure,
July 11-12 |
Ladybank,
Leven Links,
Lundin, Scotscraig,
July 16-17 |
St
Annes Old Links, Fairhaven,
Southport & Ainsdale, Hillside,
July 15-16 |
Gullane
No.1,
Luffness New,
North Berwick, Dunbar,
July 14-15 |
| Open
Championship |
Carnoustie,
July 15-18 |
Old
Course, St. Andrews,
July 20-23 |
Royal
Lytham & St. Annes,
July 19-22 |
Honourable
Company of
Edinburgh Golfers,
Muirfield, July 18-21 |
| Seniors
Championship |
Frilford
Heath,
(Red & Green Courses),
August 4-6 |
Gullane,
(Courses No. 1 & 2),
August 9-11 |
Royal
Portrush,
(Dunluce & Valley Courses),
August 8-10 |
Woodhall
Spa,
(Hotchkin & Bracken Courses),
August 7-9 |
Boys
Home
Internationals |
Conwy,
Caernarvonshire,
August 4-6 |
Portmarnock,
August 9-11 |
Moortown,
August 8-10 |
Blairgowrie,
Lansdowne,
August 7-9 |
| Boys
Championship |
Royal
St. David's,
August 9-14 |
Hillside,
August 14-19 |
Ganton,
August 13-18 |
Carnoustie,
August 12-17 |
British
Mid-Amateur
Championship |
Walton
Heath,
August 11-15 |
Royal
Troon,
August 16-20 |
Seaton
Carew,
August 15-19 |
Formby,
August 14-18 |
Jaques
Leglise
Trophy |
Burnham
& Berrow,
August 27-28 |
Turnberry
(Ailsa Course),
June 30-July 1 |
Continent
of Europe,
Course TBA,
August 31-September 1 |
Continent
of Europe,
Course TBA,
August 30-31 |
| St.
Andrews Trophy |
- |
Turnberry
(Ailsa Course),
June 30-July 1 |
- |
Continent
of Europe,
Course TBA,
August 30-31 |
| Walker
Cup |
Nairn,
September 11-12 |
- |
Ocean
Forest,
Sea Island,
Georgia, USA,
August 11-12 |
- |
| Eisenhower
Trophy |
- |
Berlin,
August 31-September 3 |
- |
Malaysia,
Date & Courses TBA |
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