2019 British Amateur Championship

Adiaga 2 · 11-06-2019 4:30pm #1

Anyone heading along(as a player or spectator) to this next week? Not much mention of it, for one of the biggest events in amateur golf. Could be due something to do with Portmarnock and its membership policies(?)

https://www.randa.org/en/championships/theamateurchampionship

Mushy · 11-06-2019 5:17pm

Think I'll try go the Saturday. Am in Enniscrone the Thursday (trek from Cork), Strandhill the Friday. So heading back to folks in Wicklow the Friday, so may as well when in the area

Donald Trumped · 11-06-2019 5:28pm

The powers that be in Portmarnock know that if they don't change their "dinosaur age" policy on not admitting female members to the golf club, then this will be the last major tournament of significance that they'll host for the foreseeable future.

The tournament itself should be good. The 1st 36 holes of strokeplay, starting Monday of next week will be held in both Portmarnock and The Island golf clubs. The top 64 and ties will qualify for the matchplay stage of the championship, to be held in Portmarnock, starting next Wednesday. If they play off the back tees, then you could be looking at the course playing around 7,500 yards in Portmarnock.

The early contenders for the event look like the following. For Ireland Caolan Rafferty (Dundalk) who is in outstanding form this year and Conor Purcell from the host club this week. Australia have David Micheluzzi as their highest ranked player this week. For England, expect the likes of Jake Burnage and Alex Fitzpatrick to be among contention this week. USA's Akshay Bhatia is currently ranked in the top 10 in the world and is a welcome visitor to these shores this week.

Entry is free next week. These are the stars of tomorrow, so if you have any spare time then go down and see golf of the highest quality. Hope the weather will be good too.

frink · 12-06-2019 9:26am

Hope to get to Portmarnock to see one of the days. Any ideas on parking? Had a look online but couldn't see anything

Remind me · 12-06-2019 8:05pm

frink wrote: »

Hope to get to Portmarnock to see one of the days. Any ideas on parking? Had a look online but couldn't see anything

I would expect Portmarnock will use the land along either side of the driveway?

mjsc1970 · 17-06-2019 12:38pm

Just spent the morning in The Island. Great to see these guys up close. They are effectively pros. Their ball striking is top notch. Watching them hitting long irons in to the wind, and the sound of the strike, amazing.

LuckyGent88 · 17-06-2019 12:46pm

mjsc1970 wrote: »

Just spent the morning in The Island. Great to see these guys up close. They are effectively pros. Their ball striking is top notch. Watching them hitting long irons in to the wind, and the sound of the strike, amazing.

Is the weather bad in the area as the scoring is pretty bad across both courses. Irish haven’t started well so far anyway.

FixdePitchmark · 17-06-2019 12:50pm

Is it on in afternoon

What is schedule ?

mjsc1970 · 17-06-2019 1:13pm

Fairly breezy testing conditions.

No idea of schedule but they'll be out there till tea time at least. Pace of play is, well, not lightening.

mjsc1970 · 17-06-2019 1:15pm

Live scoring on RandA.org

PhuckHugh22 · 17-06-2019 1:23pm

Can I ask why the British Amateur Championship is being played in Dublin?

Not trying to start some sort not in my country type debate.

Just genuinely curious what the reasoning is? Is it a one off type thing?

Martin567 · 17-06-2019 2:05pm

PhuckHugh22 wrote: »

Can I ask why the British Amateur Championship is being played in Dublin?

Not trying to start some sort not in my country type debate.

Just genuinely curious what the reasoning is? Is it a one off type thing?

The correct title is actually the Amateur Championship, not the British Amateur Championship.

It's just like the Open Championship which will be in Portrush next month, not the British Open. Technically these events don't have to be held in Britain at all although they almost always are.

Remind me · 17-06-2019 2:36pm

And the ladies Amateur was on in RCD

FixdePitchmark · 17-06-2019 8:20pm

I'm no golf historian

But golf at an amateur level has been Britain and Ireland to even pre independence.
Then Ireland have a golf union across the full island and also encapsulating part of the UK even further cements us into the game in Britain.

At the end of the day - the walker cup remains Britain and Ireland. Fairly deep links.

LuckyGent88 · 18-06-2019 6:03pm

Much better scoring from a few Irish today with Caolan Rafferty shooting the best round of the day so far anyway.

Looking like 3 Irish in the matchplay stages. I was expecting a few more to be honest with the likes of Purcell, Murphy and Lester sure to be disappointed.

paulos53 · 18-06-2019 8:46pm

Looks like 4 Irish through in the end.
Caolan Rafferty, Eanna Griffin and James Sugrue into Round 2 of the matchplay. Round 1 for Ronan Mullarney

Ronney · 19-06-2019 9:44am

PhuckHugh22 wrote: »

Can I ask why the British Amateur Championship is being played in Dublin?

Not trying to start some sort not in my country type debate.

Just genuinely curious what the reasoning is? Is it a one off type thing?

Why I'm not sure but was played there back in the 40's once.

How would be down to Portmarnoch's president Gavin Cadwell being a former captain of the R and A.

LuckyGent88 · 19-06-2019 2:08pm

Some lad got beat 9&8 this morning!!! He must have went out on the piss.

Ronan Mullarney made it thru his preliminary match and is out again now along with the three other Irish qualifiers

LuckyGent88 · 19-06-2019 5:12pm

2/4 thru to tomorrow. Ronan and James Sugrue through. Disappointed Caolan Rafferty didn’t manage to get through.

LuckyGent88 · 20-06-2019 12:21pm

Some comeback from James Sugrue. 3 down with 4 to play and he goes and wins the last 4 holes to win the match.

Ronan Mullarney on course to join him in the last 16 too as he is currently 3 up with 5 to play.