WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS TODAY

The Women's Amateur and The Amateur championships are being held at neighboring venues on England’s Golf Coast this week.

For live scoring at The Women’s Amateur, click on the link below:
https://www.randa.org/en/championships/

In total, 93 women have gathered at West Lancashire Golf Club to play in The Women’s Amateur championship while, less that half-an-hour away, 120 men have gathered at Royal Birkdale to play in The Amateur.

Both championships are being played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic with health and safety protocols in place for players and officials.

The Women's Amateur Championship:

The defending champion, England's Emily Toy, will be joined in the field by two of the world’s top 10 players in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, Italian duo Alessia Nobilio (3) and Benedetta Moresco (9).

The highest ranked Englishwoman is Lily May Humphreys (13), who won the 2017 R&A Girls’ Amateur Championship and was also a Curtis Cup team member for GB&I in 2018. 

The highest ranked Scot is Junior Solheim Cup star Hannah Darling (46) who won the 2018 R&A Girls’ Under-16 Open championship and the 2019 Scottish Girls' Open championship.

Former Curtis Cup players Annabell Fuller, who won the English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship last week and Paula Grant will also compete.

Play starts on Tuesday (today) with two rounds of qualifying stoke-play over two days. The top 64 players will then progress on to the match-play, which starts on Thursday. The final is scheduled for Saturday afternoon.

Live scoring, news and video from both championships can be followed on all The R&A’s social media platforms and at: www.randa.org