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Boys Amateur Championship
British golf tournament
British golf tournament
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Boys Amateur Championship |
| location | United Kingdom |
| establishment | 1921 |
| course | County Louth Golf Club (2025) |
| format | Stroke play followed by match play |
| month_played | August |
| current_champion | NED Guus Lafeber |
The Boys Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held annually in the United Kingdom. The competition is organised and run by The R&A.
History
The Boys Amateur Championship was first played at Royal Ascot in 1921. In 1921 boys had to be under-16 but this was raised to under-17 in 1922 and to under-18 in 1923, which is the age limit that has been retained since.
The venue for the competition has been played at many golf courses throughout the United Kingdom and has frequented several golf courses on more than one occasion. Notably the first two completion were both played at Royal Ascot.
The first championship started on 5 September 1921 with nearly 50 boys competing. The first day saw 14-year-old Henry Cotton play the eventual winner, Donald Mathieson, Cotton losing by 2 holes. Cotton was all square after 16 holes but lost the 17th, after being incorrectly penalised for placing his bag in a bunker, and then went out of bounds at the final hole. The Scot, Mathieson, met an English boy, Guy Lintott in the 36-hole final. Lincott won the final three holes to tie the match but Mathieson won the 37th hole to win the championship. Mathieson was the son of Donald MacKay Mathieson, a well-known golf journalist.
Format
The current format for the Boys Amateur Championship has been used since 2010 and comprises an initial stroke play stage with all 252 competitors playing two rounds of 18 holes, one on each of the two courses. The 64 lowest scores over the 36 holes then compete in the match play final stage of the Championship. Ties for 64th place are decided by countback. Each round of the knockout is played over 18 holes with the exception of the final which is played over 36 holes. Boys must be under 18 at the start of the year in which the championship is held.
The 2020 event was cancelled, while the 2021 event was run with a reduced field of 144 played at a single venue, Royal Cinque Ports.
Results
| Year | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Venue | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | NED Guus Lafeber | 37 holes | ESP Yago Horno | County Louth Golf Club | ||||||
| 2024 | SWE Viggo Olsson Mörk | 4 & 3 | NED Scott Woltering | Moortown | ||||||
| 2023 | ENG Kris Kim | 38 holes | USA Alex Papayoanou | Ganton | ||||||
| 2022 | SWE Albert Hansson | 2 & 1 | SWE Didrik Ringvall Bengtsson | Carnoustie | ||||||
| 2021 | ENG Jack Bigham | 37 holes | ITA Riccardo Fantinelli | Royal Cinque Ports | ||||||
| 2020 | Cancelled | url=https://api.randa.org/en/news/2020/06/update-on-amateur-championships-and-matches | title=Amateur Championships and Matches Update | date=22 June 2020 | publisher=The R&A}} | |||||
| 2019 | FRA Tom Gueant | 37 holes | SWE Wilmer Ederö | Saunton | url=https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/c42c7bf4-dca7-00ea-4f2e-373223f80f76/d07c434f-04e7-4d95-ad25-a010a0a34711/2019%20Results.pdf | title=R&A Championships and International Matches 2019 | access-date=11 December 2022 | publisher=The R&A}} | ||
| 2018 | ENG Conor Gough | 3 & 1 | ESP José Luis Ballester | Royal Portrush | url=https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/c42c7bf4-dca7-00ea-4f2e-373223f80f76/987aedde-4a03-4274-8ea5-f62f76f04cd4/2018%20Results.pdf | title=R&A Championships and International Matches 2018 | access-date=11 December 2022 | publisher=The R&A}} | ||
| 2017 | PRT Pedro Lencart | 5 & 4 | DEU Falko Hanisch | Nairn | url=https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/c42c7bf4-dca7-00ea-4f2e-373223f80f76/e7dc2746-7a5e-445f-8d1f-29c019490dc8/2017%20Results.pdf | title=R&A Championships and International Matches 2017 | access-date=11 December 2022 | publisher=The R&A}} | ||
| 2016 | DEU Falko Hanisch | 37 holes | ESP Alejandro Aguilera | Muirfield | url=https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/c42c7bf4-dca7-00ea-4f2e-373223f80f76/8e476774-79cb-49fc-a4e0-e4b0b289b16a/2016%20Results.pdf | title=R&A Championships and International Matches 2016 | access-date=11 December 2022 | publisher=The R&A}} | ||
| 2015 | SWE Marcus Svensson | 4 & 3 | ZAF Keegan De Lange | Royal Birkdale | url=https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/c42c7bf4-dca7-00ea-4f2e-373223f80f76/1afdb861-f224-41f7-a327-0b76a328d57f/2015%20Results.pdf | title=R&A Championships and International Matches 2015 | access-date=11 December 2022 | publisher=The R&A}} | ||
| 2014 | SWE Oskar Bergqvist | 1 up | IRL Rowan Lester | Prestwick | url=https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/c42c7bf4-dca7-00ea-4f2e-373223f80f76/3d5af712-dd4c-455a-a66b-9c59f0aa69f1/2014%20Results.pdf | title=R&A Championships and International Matches 2014 | access-date=11 December 2022 | publisher=The R&A}} | ||
| 2013 | SCO Ewen Ferguson | 10 & 9 | DEU Michael Hirmer | Royal Liverpool | url=https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/c42c7bf4-dca7-00ea-4f2e-373223f80f76/29c8650b-3ea2-4d5a-81ac-872bb15c0ffa/1984-2012%20Results.pdf | title=R&A Championships and International Matches 2013 | first=Peter N. | last=Lewis | access-date=11 December 2022 | publisher=The R&A}} |
| 2012 | ENG Matt Fitzpatrick | 10 & 8 | WAL Henry James | Notts | url=https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/c42c7bf4-dca7-00ea-4f2e-373223f80f76/29c8650b-3ea2-4d5a-81ac-872bb15c0ffa/1984-2012%20Results.pdf | title=R&A Championships and International Matches 1984 - 2012 | first=Peter N. | last=Lewis | access-date=11 December 2022 | publisher=The R&A}} |
| 2011 | ENG Harrison Greenberry | 37 holes | ENG Patrick Kelly | Burnham & Berrow | ||||||
| 2010 | ESP Adrián Otaegui | 4 & 3 | DEU Max Rottluff | Kilmarnock (Barassie) | ||||||
| 2009 | ENG Tom Lewis | 5 & 4 | ENG Eddie Pepperell | Royal St George's | ||||||
| 2008 | PRT Pedro Figueiredo | 39 holes | SCO Fraser McKenna | Little Aston | ||||||
| 2007 | ESP Emilio Cuartero | 1 up | SCO Fraser Fotheringham | Royal Porthcawl | ||||||
| 2006 | ENG Matthew Nixon | 38 holes | SWE Björn Åkesson | Royal Aberdeen | ||||||
| 2005 | DEU Bernhard Neumann | 3 & 2 | SCO Jordan Findlay | Hunstanton | ||||||
| 2004 | SCO Jordan Findlay | 2 & 1 | ENG Tom Sherreard | Conwy | ||||||
| 2003 | WAL Rhys Davies | 1 up | ESP Pablo Martín | Royal Liverpool | ||||||
| 2002 | ENG Mark Pilling | 37 holes | WAL Rhys Davies | Carnoustie | ||||||
| 2001 | ESP Pablo Martín | 3 & 2 | ESP Rafa Cabrera-Bello | Ganton | ||||||
| 2000 | SCO David Inglis | 1 up | ENG David Skinns | Hillside | ||||||
| 1999 | ESP Alfonso Gutierrez | 1 up | ENG Michael Skelton | Royal St David's | ||||||
| 1998 | SCO Steven O'Hara | 1 up | ITA Stefano Reale | Ladybank | ||||||
| 1997 | ESP Sergio García | 6 & 5 | ENG Richard Jones | Saunton | ||||||
| 1996 | ENG Kenneth Ferrie | 2 & 1 | WAL Mark Pilkington | Littlestone | ||||||
| 1995 | SCO Steven Young | 7 & 6 | ENG Sam Walker | Dunbar | ||||||
| 1994 | ENG Christopher Smith | 2 & 1 | ENG Chris Rodgers | Little Aston | ||||||
| 1993 | ENG David Howell | 3 & 1 | SWE Viktor Gustavsson | Glenbervie | ||||||
| 1992 | SWE Leif Westerberg | 3 & 2 | SWE Freddie Jacobson | Royal Mid-Surrey | ||||||
| 1991 | ESP Francisco Valera | 4 & 3 | ENG Robert Walton | Montrose | ||||||
| 1990 | ENG Michael Welch | 3 & 1 | WAL Matthew Ellis | Hunstanton | ||||||
| 1989 | ENG Carl Watts | 5 & 3 | SCO Colin Fraser | Nairn | ||||||
| 1988 | ENG Simon Pardoe | 3 & 2 | ENG David Haines | Formby | ||||||
| 1987 | WAL Calvin O'Carroll | 3 & 1 | SWE Per Olsson | Kilmarnock (Barassie) | ||||||
| 1986 | IRL Leslie Walker | 5 & 4 | SCO Graham King | Seaton Carew | ||||||
| 1985 | ENG James Cook | 5 & 4 | ENG Wayne Henry | Royal Burgess | ||||||
| 1984 | SCO Lee Vannet | 2 & 1 | SWE Adam Mednick | Royal Porthcawl | ||||||
| 1983 | ESP José María Olazábal | 6 & 5 | FRA Marc Pendariès | Glenbervie | ||||||
| 1982 | ENG Mark Grieve | 37 holes | ENG Giles Hickman | Burnham & Berrow | ||||||
| 1981 | ESP Jesús López | 4 & 3 | ENG Reeves Weedon | Gullane | ||||||
| 1980 | ENG Duncan Muscroft | 7 & 6 | WAL Aled Llyr | Formby | ||||||
| 1979 | NIR Ronan Rafferty | 6 & 5 | ENG David Ray | Kilmarnock-Barassie | ||||||
| 1978 | ENG Stephen Keppler | 3 & 2 | ENG Mark Stokes | Seaton Carew | ||||||
| 1977 | SCO Ian Ford | 1 up | SCO Colin Dalgleish | Downfield | ||||||
| 1976 | WAL Mark Mouland | 6 & 5 | ENG Graham Hargreaves | Sunningdale | ||||||
| 1975 | SCO Brian Marchbank | 1 up | ENG Sandy Lyle | Bruntsfield Links | ||||||
| 1974 | ENG Toby Shannon | 10 & 9 | ENG Sandy Lyle | Royal Liverpool | ||||||
| 1973 | SCO David Robertson | 5 & 3 | ITA Stefano Betti | Blairgowrie | ||||||
| 1972 | SCO Garry Harvey | 7 & 5 | ENG Robert Newsome | Moortown | ||||||
| 1971 | ENG Howard Clark | 6 & 5 | SCO Garry Harvey | Kilmarnock-Barassie | ||||||
| 1970 | ENG Ian Gradwell | 1 up | SCO Ewen Murray | Hillside | ||||||
| 1969 | ENG Martin Foster | 37 holes | SCO Martin Gray | Dunbar | ||||||
| 1968 | ENG Stephen Evans | 3 & 2 | WAL Kim Dabson | Royal Lytham & St Anne's | ||||||
| 1967 | ENG Peter Tupling | 4 & 2 | ENG Stephen Evans | Western Galies | ||||||
| 1966 | ENG Andrew Phillips | 12 & 11 | ENG Alan Muller | Moortown | ||||||
| 1965 | SCO Graham Milne | 4 & 2 | ENG David Midgley | Gullane | ||||||
| 1964 | ENG Peter Townsend | 9 & 8 | SCO Roddy Gray | Formby | ||||||
| 1963 | SCO Alex Soutar | 2 & 1 | ENG David Rigby | Prestwick | ||||||
| 1962 | ENG Peter Townsend | 1 up | SCO Cameron Penman | Royal Mid-Surrey | ||||||
| 1961 | SCO Finlay Morris | 3 & 2 | ENG Clive Clark | Dalmahoy | ||||||
| 1960 | FRA Patrick Cros | 5 & 3 | ENG Peter Green | Olton | ||||||
| 1959 | SCO Alan Murphy | 3 & 1 | SCO Eddie Shamash | Pollok | ||||||
| 1958 | ENG Richard Braddon | 4 & 3 | ENG Ian Stungo | Moortown | ||||||
| 1957 | IOM David Ball | 2 & 1 | SCO John Wilson | Carnoustie | ||||||
| 1956 | SCO John Ferguson | 2 & 1 | ENG Clive Cole | Sunningdale | ||||||
| 1955 | SCO Stewart Wilson | 39 holes | SCO Brian Aitken | Kilmarnock (Barassie) | ||||||
| 1954 | SCO Alan Bussell | 38 holes | ENG Keith Warren | Royal Liverpool | ||||||
| 1953 | ENG Alec Shepperson | 6 & 4 | ENG Tom Booth | Dunbar | ||||||
| 1952 | ENG Michael Bonallack | 37 holes | ENG Alec Shepperson | Formby | ||||||
| 1951 | ENG Neville Dunn | 6 & 5 | ENG Michael Lunt | Prestwick | ||||||
| 1950 | NIR John Glover | 2 & 1 | SCO Ian Young | Royal Lytham & St Anne's | ||||||
| 1949 | SCO Harry MacAnespie | 3 & 2 | NIR Norman Drew | St Andrews | ||||||
| 1948 | ENG John Pritchett | 37 holes | SCO David Reid | Kilmarnock (Barassie) | ||||||
| 1947 | SCO James Armour | 5 & 4 | ENG Ian Caldwell | Royal Liverpool | ||||||
| 1946 | SCO Alan MacGregor | 7 & 5 | ENG Donald Dunstan | Bruntsfield Links | ||||||
| 1940–1945: No tournament due to World War II | ||||||||||
| 1939 | SCO Sandy Williamson | 4 & 2 | ENG Ken Thom | Carnoustie | ||||||
| 1938 | SCO Willie Smeaton | 3 & 2 | ENG Thomas Snowball | Moor Park | ||||||
| 1937 | SCO Ian Roberts | 8 & 7 | SCO James Stewart | Bruntsfield Links | ||||||
| 1936 | IRL Jimmy Bruen | 11 & 9 | SCO William Innes | Royal Birkdale | ||||||
| 1935 | ENG John Langley | 6 & 5 | ENG Ralph Norris | Royal Aberdeen | ||||||
| 1934 | ENG Robert Burles | 12 & 10 | ENG Frederick Allpass | Moortown | ||||||
| 1933 | ENG Laddie Lucas | 3 & 2 | SCO William McLachlan | Carnoustie | ||||||
| 1932 | SCO Ian MacDonald | 2 & 1 | SCO Leslie Hardie | Royal Lytham & St Anne's | ||||||
| 1931 | SCO Hector Thomson | 5 & 4 | SCO Francis McGloin | Glasgow | ||||||
| 1930 | SCO James Lindsay | 9 & 8 | SCO James Todd | Fulwell | ||||||
| 1929 | SCO James Lindsay | 6 & 4 | SCO John Scott-Riddell | Royal Burgess | ||||||
| 1928 | USA Stuart Scheftel | 6 & 5 | SCO Archibald Dobbie | Formby | ||||||
| 1927 | ENG Eric Fiddian | 4 & 2 | SCO Ken Forbes | Royal Burgess | ||||||
| 1926 | SCO Eric McRuvie | 1 up | ENG Charles Timmis | Coombe Hill | ||||||
| 1925 | SCO Robert Peattie | 4 & 3 | SCO Andrew McNair | Royal Burgess | ||||||
| 1924 | SCO Robert Peattie | 2 up | FRA Pierre Maneuvrier | Coombe Hill | ||||||
| 1923 | SCO Donald Mathieson | 3 & 1 | ENG Hugh Mitchell | Dunbar | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=evdYAAAAIBAJ&pg=1454%2C120307 | title=Mathieson again boy champion | newspaper=The Glasgow Herald | date=1 September 1923 | page=13}} | |
| 1922 | ENG Hugh Mitchell | 4 & 2 | ENG William Greenfield | Royal Ascot | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mZpAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4290%2C1234144 | title=The boys' championship | newspaper=The Glasgow Herald | date=11 September 1922 | page=13}} | |
| 1921 | SCO Donald Mathieson | 37 holes | ENG Guy Lintott | Royal Ascot | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oZNAAAAAIBAJ&pg=2064%2C1276203 | title=The boys' championship | newspaper=The Glasgow Herald | date=12 September 1921 | page=12}} |
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Future venues
- 2026 - Gailes Links
References
References
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