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The Advisor Insider News
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club
has announced that Royal Liverpool Golf Club (Hoylake)
will host the 2006 OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP July 20-23. The
Open was last played at Hoylake in 1967 when Roberto
de Vicenzo of Argentina won his first and only major
title. Royal Liverpool Golf Club has a long and distinguished
history. It was founded in 1869 and has hosted the
Open no fewer than ten times. The players who have
won the Open at Hoylake include Bobby Jones who, as
an amateur in 1930 won the Grand Slam - the Open and
Amateur Championships of both Great Britain and the
United States. When the Open Championship returns
to Royal Liverpool in 2006, Local Final Qualifying
will be played at Conwy (Caernarvonshire), Formby,
Wallasey and West Lancashire Golf Clubs.
Congratulations to The Advisor’s
favorite TV Announcer, the Golf Channel’s Renton
Laidlaw, who also excels with the printed word, for
receiving the PGA of America’s 2003 Lifetime
Achievement Award in Journalism. The 63-year old Scotsman
began his career in 1957 with the Edinburgh Evening
News. Well Done!
![[Turnberry Kintyre]](../resources/0103kintyrecourse.jpg)
Westin Turnberry Resort
- Kintyre Course
Turnberry’s Kintyre course
is the only new venue in the four local final qualifying
courses that will be used for the 2004 Open Championship
to be played at Royal Troon. The other three, Glasgow
(Gailes), Irvine and Western Gailes, have been used
several times before while Turnberry Kintyre replaces
Kilmarnock (Barassie) which, in 2004, has agreed to
host the Junior Open Championship.
More qualifying sites – Pleasington,
Prestbury, Rochester & Cobham Park and Royal Ashdown
Forest are named as new additions in the list of 16
courses which will host Regional Qualifying for the
2004 Open Championship at Royal Troon.
The Royal and Ancient announce
that the Senior British Open has been included as
an official event for the first time in the PGA Tour's
2003 Champions Tour schedule. It will be played on
the Ailsa course at The Westin Turnberry Resort July
24-27. It will also serve as the Tour’s fifth
major.
Congratulations to Justin Rose
who was named the Johnnie Walker Young Golfer of 2002.
For his 4 wins around the world last year –
The Dunhill Championship, South Africa, Victor Chandler
British Masters, Nashua Masters, Sunshine Tour, and
The Crowns Tournament, Japan.
Royal St. George's where this
year's Open Championship will be played in July, has
been named by the R&A as the venue for the 2006
Amateur Championship This will be the 13th time that
the Amateur has been played at Sandwich but more significantly,
the championship will move back two weeks from its
traditional early June date and will run from 19th
to 24th June. For some time it has been apparent that
since the Amateur clashed with the NCAA Championships,
the top collegiate players in the US were unable to
travel to the UK in time for the Amateur. From 2006
the Amateur will start two weeks after the NCAA Championships
in an attempt to strengthen the entry from America.
Prince's will jointly host the 36 hole stroke play
qualifying and the top 64 players and ties will go
forward to the match play stage at Royal St. George's.
Eight players have been added to
the GB&I WALKER CUP squad in preparation for the
match against the United States to be held at Ganton
Golf Club on Sept. 6-7, 2003. Yasin Ali, Clancey Bowe,
Rhys Davies, James Heath, Scott Jamieson, Matthew
Richardson, Philip Rowe and Michael Skelton will all
be on the team.
One of the world's leading amateur
stroke play tournaments, the St Andrews Links Trophy,
is being extended from two to three days. It will
be played over the Old and New Courses at St Andrews
on Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May. The first
two rounds will be on the New Course on the Friday
and the Old Course on the Saturday, with the final
two rounds being played on the Old Course on the Sunday.
The Championship Committee of the
R&A introduces a number of exemptions from the
handicap ballot for players entering the Amateur Championship
in 2003. These exemptions, which include the 10 most
recent Amateur Champions from both sides of the Atlantic,
have been introduced so that players who have recently
performed well in major tournaments will be guaranteed
a place in the stroke play qualifying stage of the
Championship.
A team of young men from Great
Britain and Ireland will take on the European team
in the Jacques Legise Trophy, set for Aug. 29-30 at
Lahinch.
Five-time PGA Club Professional
Player of the Year Bruce Zabriski of Jupiter, FL.,
will replace injured Sean Farren of Oakmont, Pa.,
on the 2003 United States Team that faces Great Britain
& Ireland, Feb. 28 to March 2, in the 21st PGA
Cup Matches at PGA Golf Club's South Course in Port
St. Lucie, FL.
Tony Jacklin and Bernhard Langer,
two key figures in the development of European golf
over the past 35 years, have been inducted into the
World Golf Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Florida.
Diageo, the world's leading premium
drinks company, is pleased to confirm that the title
of The 2003 European Tour International Schedule tournament,
to be held at Gleneagles from Thursday 19 to Sunday
22 June on The PGA Centenary Course, will be "The
Diageo Championship at Gleneagles".
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