St Andrews, Scotland, 22 November 2007: The R&A has awarded the 2011 Boys Amateur Championship to Burnham & Berrow Golf Club, Somerset, England. The Boys Home Internationals will be played at Royal St. David’s Golf Club, Gwynedd, Wales, with The Jacques Leglise Trophy to be contested at Portmarnock Golf Club, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
The Championship Course at Burnham & Berrow hosted The Jacques Leglise Trophy in 1999 and was a Regional Qualifying course for The Open Championship from 1996 – 2001.
Royal St. David’s was the venue for the 1999 Boys Amateur Championship and the 1994 British Youth’s Amateur Championship. The Welsh links also hosted the Home Internationals in 1986 and 2002, and was host to the 2000 Welsh Amateur Championship.
Portmarnock’s famous links, located just North of Dublin, was the venue for the 1991 Walker Cup and hosted the Boys Home Internationals in 2000.
Contact:
Rhodri Price, Assistant Director – Championships
Malcolm Booth, Communications Manager
The R&A
Tel: +44 1334 460000
