The well-known Kent hyperlinks, which hosted The Open in 1909 and 1920, has beforehand been a venue for Last Qualifying, in addition to staging the Novice Championship on three events, most lately 2013. It additionally hosted the R&A Boys’ Novice Championship final 12 months.
The Deal-based membership replaces Prince’s Golf Membership in close by Sandwich on the qualifying schedule, with the latter having hosted Last Qualifying since 2018.
The opposite three venues introduced had been Burnham & Berrow in Somerset, Dundonald Hyperlinks in Scotland and West Lancashire in Liverpool.
Burnham & Berrow in will develop into a Last Qualifying venue for the primary time within the membership’s historical past. It has staged a number of prestigious novice championships together with the Girls’s Novice Championship, the R&A Boys’ Novice Championship and the Jacques Leglise Trophy.
West Lancashire, which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2023, has been an everyday venue for Last Qualifying, and hosted the Girls’s Novice Championship in 2020 and likewise co-staged the Novice Championship with Formby in 2009. In 2014, it was the venue for the R&A’s Junior Open.
Dundonald Hyperlinks hosted the Scottish Open for the primary time in 2017, in addition to the Women Scottish Open in 2015-17. The R&A Boys’ Novice Championship was performed there in 2014, whereas the Girls’s Scottish Open might be performed on the Ayrshire hyperlinks later this 12 months.
Last Qualifying is contested by a mixed subject of 288 gamers, together with those that have been profitable in Regional Qualifying occasions, with a minimal of 12 locations in The Open out there.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, Government Director – Championships at The R&A, mentioned: “We now have chosen 4 famend venues to host Last Qualifying from 2023 and every of them has an excellent status for having held championships and worldwide matches. We sit up for working with them to stage a collection of thrilling occasions during which golfers will compete for a sought-after place in The Open. We now have loved working with Prince’s, Fairmont St Andrews, Hollinwell, and St Annes Previous Hyperlinks to organise Last Qualifying occasions at these venues in recent times and I wish to thank them for his or her help.”
