Renowned venues in Great Britain and Ireland and beyond will host the R&A’s amateur championships and international matches in 2025.
The 130th Amateur Championship will be played at famed southeast English venues Royal St George’s – host to the Open Championship on 15 occasions – and Royal Cinque Ports on 16-21 June, with a pre-qualifier at the latter on 13 June.
Harry Ellis was victorious when the Amateur Championship was last held at Royal St George’s in 2017. Royal Cinque Ports – which staged the Open in 1909 and 1920 – also hosted The Amateur most recently in 2013 when Garrick Porteous triumphed.
The world’s leading female players will head for the Highlands in Scotland as Nairn – the venue for the men’s Amateur in 2021 – welcomes the 122nd Women’s Amateur Championship on 9-14 June. Broadcaster Maureen Madill took the title when Nairn last hosted the championship, in 1979.
“We want to attract the best players from around the globe to compete and, as such, it is fitting to have our championships and international matches hosted at some of the world's finest venues in 2025.”
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton
The Walker Cup, the biennial encounter between leading male amateurs from GB&I and the USA, takes place at Cypress Point in California on 6-7 September 2025 with Dean Robertson captaining the visitors.
“It is important to reinforce the R&A’s amateur championships and international matches as pinnacle events in global elite amateur golf,” said Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, the R&A’s executive director of championships. “We want to attract the best players from around the globe to compete and, as such, it is fitting to have our championships and international matches hosted at some of the world's finest venues in 2025.”
The R&A Girls’ and Boys’ Amateur championships will be held at Conwy and County Louth, respectively, in August, with the R&A Girls’ U16 Amateur Championship taking place at Gog Magog in April. The R&A Women’s and Men’s Senior Amateur championships will be played concurrently at Walton Heath in July.
A number of other international matches contested between GB&I and the Continent of Europe will also take place. The St Andrews Trophy will be staged at Real Club de la Puerta de Hierro in Spain in July. Royal Hague Golf & Country Club in the Netherlands will welcome the Vagliano and Junior Vagliano trophies for women and girls a month earlier. The boys’ equivalent match for the Jacques Léglise Trophy will be played in August at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium.
The Walker Cup and St Andrews Trophy being played in the same year is part of a realignment, which will see the Walker Cup move to even years from 2026 and the St Andrews Trophy move to odd years from 2025.
For the R&A’s full 2025 event calendar, click HERE.
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