{"id":499281,"date":"2026-02-23T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499281\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:54:10","slug":"golf-business-news-the-ra-announces-venues-and-dates-for-2027-amateur-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499281\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Business News – The R&A announces venues and dates for 2027 amateur championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The R&A<\/a> has announced its venues for the amateur championships and international matches in 2027.<\/p>\n

The 132nd\u00a0Amateur Championship will be staged at Royal Portrush Golf Club<\/a> in Northern Ireland from June 14-19. Stroke play qualifying will take place over the club\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Royal Portrush has held The Amateur Championship on three previous occasions, most recently in 2014 when Scotland\u2019s Bradley Neil triumphed.<\/p>\n

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The 124th\u00a0Women\u2019s Amateur Championship will be hosted at Royal Cinque Ports in Kent for the third time next year. The famed links on England\u2019s south-east coast \u2013 a Final Qualifying venue for The Open \u2013 will welcome the world\u2019s best women amateurs for the first time since 1988. It will also mark the 125th\u00a0anniversary of the staging at the venue in 1902.<\/p>\n

The R&A Girls\u2019 Amateur Championships will be held at Burnham & Berrow in Somerset from August 9-14, while Prince\u2019s Golf Club in Kent will stage The R&A Boys\u2019 Amateur over the same dates. <\/p>\n

The R&A Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s Senior Amateur championships will be played concurrently at Blairgowrie Golf Club in Scotland from July 6-9.<\/p>\n

\"\"The R&A Girls\u2019 Amateur Championships heads to Burnham & Berrow in 2027<\/p>\n

Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, Chief Championships Officer at The R&A, said, \u201cIt 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\u2019s Open.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe 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\u2019s most prestigious venues.\u201d<\/p>\n

International matches between GB&I and the Continent of Europe will also take place in 2027 with the Jacques L\u00e9glise Trophy and the Junior Vagliano Trophy contested at Golf de Morfontaine in France from August 20-21.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Amateur Championship.<\/p>\n

For this year\u2019s championships in Great Britain and Ireland, entries open at the end of this week. Full details can be viewed at\u00a0www.randa.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The R&A has announced its venues for the amateur championships and international matches in 2027. The 132nd\u00a0Amateur Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-499281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}