The R&A Announces Royal Portrush As Host For The 2011 Seniors Open Amateur And Hesketh As Qualifying Course For The Amateur

St Andrews, Scotland, 26 November 2007: The R&A has announced that the 2011 Seniors Open Amateur Championship will be played at Royal Portrush Golf Club, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland and named Hesketh Golf Club, Southport, England as qualifying course for the same year’s Amateur Championship.
Royal Portrush last hosted the Seniors Open Amateur in 2001 and has twice hosted The Amateur Championship; in 1993 and in 1960 when Ireland’s Joe Carr, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month, won the last of his three Amateur Championships over the Co. Antrim links.
Hesketh was used as a Final Qualifying venue for the 1991 and 1998 Open Championships at Royal Birkdale. The Southport club will host next year’s Junior Open Championship before acting as the qualifying course when the Amateur Championship returns to Hillside Golf Club on the occasion of its centenary in 2011.
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Rhodri Price, Assistant Director – Championships
Malcolm Booth, Communications Manager
The R&A
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