SUNNINGDALE REPLACES WEATHER-HIT ROYAL CINQUE
NEWS RELEASE FROM THE R and A
Sunningdale’s New Course has been announced as one of the four venues for Open Championship Final Qualifying this year.
The Berkshire course will replace
Royal Cinque Ports as one of the four Final Qualifying (FQ) venues for
2014 after the links at Deal in Kent was affected by the severe storms
which caused widespread flooding in the south-east of England over the
winter.
Sunningdale has previously played
host to International Final Qualifying for The Open Championship and
will join Gailes Links, Hillside and Woburn as the four venues for FQ
which takes place on Tuesday, 1 July.
The format for FQ has been
changed for this year’s Open Championship to include events at venues
covering Scotland and the north-west, central and southern regions of
England.
It is designed to provide a more accessible route into The Open for competitors qualifying from the 13 Regional Qualifying events around the country.
It is designed to provide a more accessible route into The Open for competitors qualifying from the 13 Regional Qualifying events around the country.
Three places in The Open, which
will take place at Royal Liverpool from 13-20 July, will be available at
each of the four FQ events.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, Executive
Director - Championships at The R and A, said, “We are very grateful to
Sunningdale for agreeing to assist us with staging Final Qualifying this
year. I’m sure the players will relish the challenge of trying to
qualify for The Open at Sunningdale.
“It is unfortunate that Royal
Cinque Ports is not in a position to host the event after the terrible
weather they experienced over the winter but we know the course is
recovering well and look forward to going there in 2015.”
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