The 132nd Novice Championship will likely be staged at Royal Portrush – host to The 153rdOpen final summer time – from 14–19 June.
Stroke play qualifying will happen over the Dunluce and Valley hyperlinks, with the match play phases on the Dunluce. A pre-qualifier can even be held on 11 June over the Valley.
The famend Northern Eire venue has held The Novice Championship on three earlier events, most just lately in 2014 when Scotland’s Bradley Neil triumphed.
The 124th Ladies’s Novice Championship will likely be hosted at Royal Cinque Ports for the third time subsequent 12 months.
The famed hyperlinks on England’s south-east coast – a Ultimate Qualifying venue for The Open – will welcome the world’s greatest girls amateurs for the primary time since 1988. It can additionally mark the a hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of the staging on the venue in 1902.
The R&A Women’ and Boys’ Novice championships will likely be held at Burnham & Berrow and Prince’s respectively from 9-14 August.
The R&A Ladies’s and Males’s Senior Novice championships will likely be performed concurrently at Blairgowrie from 6-9 July.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, Chief Championships Officer at The R&A, stated, “It is necessary for The R&A to proceed to underline the standing of our newbie championships and worldwide matches as main occasions in newbie golf.
“They supply a pathway for elite golfers and provides life-changing alternatives, together with people who provide exemptions to The Open and the AIG Ladies’s Open.
“We purpose to draw the perfect newbie gamers from around the globe in 2027 and sit up for staging our championships at a few of the sport’s most prestigious venues.”
Worldwide matches between GB&I and the Continent of Europe can even happen in 2027 with the Jacques Léglise Trophy and the Junior Vagliano Trophy contested at Golf de Morfontaine in France from 20-21 August.
The dates and venues for the St Andrews Trophy and the Vagliano Trophy in 2027 are nonetheless to be confirmed, as are the dates for The Ladies’s Novice Championship.
For this 12 months’s championships in Nice Britain and Eire, entries open on the finish of this week. Full particulars may be seen at www.randa.org
