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.