{"id":442208,"date":"2026-02-24T02:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:16:10","slug":"amateur-championship-royal-portrush-to-host-2027-tournament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442208\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Championship: Royal Portrush to host 2027 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland will stage the Amateur Championship for the fourth occasion in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 132nd Amateur Championship will take place between 14-19 June. Qualifying will be held on the Dunluce and Valley links with the tournament to be played at Dunluce. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The venue has staged the event three times already with Bradley Neil winning the most recent tournament held there in 2014. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Ethan Fang won the 130th Amateur Championship at Royal St George&#8217;s and Royal Cinque Ports in Deal, England last year, defeating Gavin Tiernan in a one-hole victory in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Royal Portrush hosted the 2025 Open when Scottie Scheffler secured the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s Amateur will take place at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Considered one of the world&#8217;s most prestigious competitions outside the professional game, five-time European Tour winner and Northern Irishman Michael Hoey won the tournament in Prestwick in 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the last 10 years, the event has been held at Irish courses Ballyliffin in 2024, and Portmarnock in 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland will stage the Amateur Championship for the fourth occasion in 2027. The 132nd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-442208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}