THE 41ST SENIORS OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
ATTRACTS QUALITY FIELD
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY R&A
A quality field of 144 players aged 55 and above from 14 countries including the USA, Singapore and Morocco will contest the 41st Seniors Open Amateur Championship over the historic fairways of Prestwick, the birthplace of The Open Championship, later this week.
The competitors will play 18 holes on both Wednesday and Thursday, after which the leading 60 players and ties play a further 18 holes on Friday 7 August.
Paul Simson from North Carolina, USA, will be hoping to repeat last year’s performance when he won the Championship for the second time in three years at Royal Cinque Ports and Prince's in Kent. He took the title by two strokes from England’s Chris Reynolds with Canadian Graham Cooke finishing third. Reynolds a former England Senior International hopes to continue his recent form after claiming the 2009 English Seniors Championship in June at Moor Park (High Course) & Old Fold Manor golf clubs.
Despite the USA’s dominance of this event over the past few years there are a number of European contenders heading to Ayrshire with every chance of victory.
England’s Andrew Stracey (Littlestone) clinched the Irish Seniors Amateur Championship at Bangor in May.
Former Irish International Maurice Kelly (Killeen) won the Irish Seniors Close Amateur Championship and was runner up by one shot to Italy’s Federico Lang in Greece for the International European Seniors Championship. David Lane (Goring & Streatley) won the Scottish Seniors Championship at Panmure.
The 2009 Champion will gain exemptions for The Senior Open at Carnoustie and The US Seniors Amateur 2010.
The full list of competitors can be viewed at www.randa.org
ATTRACTS QUALITY FIELD
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY R&A
A quality field of 144 players aged 55 and above from 14 countries including the USA, Singapore and Morocco will contest the 41st Seniors Open Amateur Championship over the historic fairways of Prestwick, the birthplace of The Open Championship, later this week.
The competitors will play 18 holes on both Wednesday and Thursday, after which the leading 60 players and ties play a further 18 holes on Friday 7 August.
Paul Simson from North Carolina, USA, will be hoping to repeat last year’s performance when he won the Championship for the second time in three years at Royal Cinque Ports and Prince's in Kent. He took the title by two strokes from England’s Chris Reynolds with Canadian Graham Cooke finishing third. Reynolds a former England Senior International hopes to continue his recent form after claiming the 2009 English Seniors Championship in June at Moor Park (High Course) & Old Fold Manor golf clubs.
Despite the USA’s dominance of this event over the past few years there are a number of European contenders heading to Ayrshire with every chance of victory.
England’s Andrew Stracey (Littlestone) clinched the Irish Seniors Amateur Championship at Bangor in May.
Former Irish International Maurice Kelly (Killeen) won the Irish Seniors Close Amateur Championship and was runner up by one shot to Italy’s Federico Lang in Greece for the International European Seniors Championship. David Lane (Goring & Streatley) won the Scottish Seniors Championship at Panmure.
The 2009 Champion will gain exemptions for The Senior Open at Carnoustie and The US Seniors Amateur 2010.
The full list of competitors can be viewed at www.randa.org
Labels: Amateur Men
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