{"id":636030,"date":"2026-06-13T03:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636030\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:55:11","slug":"elite-golfers-set-for-the-131st-amateur-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636030\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite golfers set for The 131st Amateur Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The club was founded 14 years prior and initially laid out over nine holes by Robert Chambers, the son-in-law of the first captain, and George Morris, the younger brother of Old Tom Morris. It 1871, the course was extended to 18 holes and was awarded its Royal status in the same year.<br \/>\nIn the 141 years since, Hoylake has evolved into a true cathedral of the sport, hosting countless historic majors, including The Open 13 times. Meanwhile, The Amateur Championship itself has cemented a towering legacy, serving as the ultimate proving ground for future legends of the game like Bobby Jones, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olaz\u00e1bal, and Sergio Garcia long before they conquered the professional ranks.\u00a0<br \/>\nA new generation will now get the chance to engrave their own names into that shared history when play gets under way on Monday.<br \/>\nWest Lancashire\u2019s record-breaking links<br \/>\nSharing hosting duties for the stroke-play qualifying rounds is West Lancashire, a venue with its own piece of Amateur Championship history.<br \/>\nThe venue last co-hosted the championship in 2009 and it was during those qualifying rounds on West Lancashire\u2019s layout that a prodigiously talented 16-year-old Matteo Manassero turned heads, firing a spectacular, amateur course-record 65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club was founded 14 years prior and initially laid out over nine holes by Robert Chambers, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636030","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\/636030","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=636030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}