St Andrews, Scotland 29 October 2007: The R&A has announced that the Boys Amateur Championship will return to Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club, in the South West of Scotland, in 2010. It will be the sixth time that the championship has been staged on the Ayrshire links.
The club, which was founded in 1887, has a proud association with junior golf, staging The R&A’s Junior Open Championship in 2004 and the European Youth Championship in 2000.
Notable winners of The Boys Amateur over the Barassie Links course include England’s Howard Clark (1971) and Ireland’s Ronan Rafferty (1979).
Contact:
Rhodri Price, Assistant Director – Championships
Malcolm Booth, Communications Manager
The R&A
Tel: +44 (0) 1334 460000
