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AMATEUR CH/P AT ROYAL PORTRUSH
NEWS RELEASE FROM THE R and A
The 119th Amateur Championship gets underway next week (June 16 to 21) at Royal Portrush and Portstewart golf clubs in Northern Ireland.
For the third year in succession
all 288 competitors from 28 countries are ranked players on the WAGR.
Fifteen golfers from Ireland and Northern
Ireland, 29 from Scotland, 63 from England and six from Wales have made
the draw that also features 13 top players from the USA alongside
competitors from as far afield as Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and New
Zealand.
The Amateur Champion will earn a
place in this year’s Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, Hoylake and
the 2015 US Open at Chambers Bay in Washington State.
Traditionally, an
invitation is also extended to play in the Masters Tournament at
Augusta.
Thirty-three of the top 100 in
the WAGR™ listing will make the trip including England’s Ryan Evans, the
highest ranked British player in the field.
Evans was the stroke play
medalist at the 2014 Australian Amateur before winning the Lake
Macquarie Amateur in January.
Last year’s quarter-finalist,
Italy’s Renato Paratore, ranked 17th in the world, will lead the
continental European challenge alongside Mario Galiano Aguilar of Spain
and last year’s Belgian Amateur Champion Thomas Detry, who are ranked
15th and 19th respectively.
Last year's East of Ireland champion, Paul Dunne, who, like Detry, has been selected for this year’s
European Palmer Cup team, will lead the Irish challenge alongside 2013
Irish Amateur Close Champion Cormac Sharvin, a student at Stirling University.
Also in the field is fellow
European Palmer Cup team member Grant Forrest, pictured right, fresh from his play-off victory
in the St Andrews Links Trophy, Bradley Neil, who lost that play-off, and 2013 Boys Amateur Champion Ewen
Ferguson from Bearsden.
Making his debut this year is Spain’s Javier Ballesteros, son
of the late three-time Open Champion Seve Ballesteros.
“The support for amateur golf has always been strong in Ireland and
Northern Ireland and The Amateur Championship is a wonderful opportunity
for spectators to watch amateur golf at the highest level played at two
of the finest links courses in the UK,” said Euan Mordaunt, The
RandA’s Director – Amateur Events. “We have an excellent international field and it promises to be a great week of golf.”
The first two days of The Amateur
Championship comprise stroke-play qualifying over both courses before
the field is cut to 64 and ties and the match play format finds the
champion at the end of the final four days’ play at Royal Portrush.
Several former Open Champions and Ryder Cup team members have played
in the Amateur Championship including Jack Nicklaus, Sir Nick Faldo,
Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington, Henrik Stenson, Louis Oosthuizen,
Ernie Els, Colin Montgomerie and Sergio Garcia, who won in 1998.Admission and parking is free and spectators are welcome in the clubhouses at both clubs.
Full details including the championship draw can be found at RandA.org and television highlights will be broadcast from Thursday to Saturday, 19 to 21 June 2014 on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and via local satellite suppliers in other countries.
Ends.
Notes to Editors:
Scottish players in the field
Lawrence Allan (Alva), Scott
Barrowman (Dollar), Craig Chalmers (Cawder), Alexander Culverwell
(Dunbar), Adam Dunton (McDonald), Ewen Ferguson (Bearsden), Grant
Forrest (Craigielaw), Scott Gibson (Southerness), Kyle Godsman (Moray),
Callum Hill (Tantallon), Craig Howie (Peebles), Liam Johnston (Dumfries and Co), Daniel Kay (Dunbar), Nick Macandrew (Royal Aberdeen),
Kyle McClung (Wigtownshire Co), Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie),
Alasdair McDougall (Elderslie), Charlie Macneal (Prestwick), Fraser
Moore (Glenbervie), Bradley Neil (Blairgowrie), Chris Robb (Meldrum
House), Craig Ross (Kirkhill), James Ross (Royal Burgess), Jamie Savage
(Cawder) Ewan Scott (St Andrews), Gordon Stevenson (Whitecraigs), Connor
Syme (Dumfries and Co), Euan Walker (Kilmarnock Barassie) and
Daniel Young (Craigie Hill)
Four Scottish clubs have two players in the draw, Cawder, Dumfries and County, Dunbar and Kilmarnock Barassie.
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