The Amateur Championship, Muirfield
Muirfield East Lothian Scotland 14th - 19th June 2010
The Amateur Championship will make its 11th appearance at Muirfield in 2010
and the following year the championship will return to Hillside for only the
second time.
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, founded in 1744, moved to the
links at Muirfield in 1891 and hosted the first four-round Open Championship
the following year. Since then it has been the venue for The Open a further
14 times. In 2002 Ernie Els won a four-man, five-hole play-off to claim the
title.
The Amateur was first played at Muirfield in 1897 and young Spaniard Sergio
Garcia was the last to win the title over the classic links in 1998.
The return of the Amateur to Hillside in 2011 will be a focal point of the
club's centenary celebrations and will come 32 years after Jay Sigel beat
fellow American Scott Hoch by 3 and 2 in the final of the 1979 championship.
Other R&A Championships hosted by Hillside include the Boys in 2000 and
the British Mid-Amateur in 1996.
The 2010 Amateur will be played from June 14-19 and in 2011 the dates will be June 20-25.
For further information visit the Royal & Ancient Golf Club website: www.randa.org.
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