The Amateur host courses

Royal Cinque Ports

2^nd 12^th 31^st 95^th

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, or Deal as it is somtimes called, is an absolute brute of a links course. Its back nine, or rather the last seven holes, are relentless...

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Royal County Down (Championship)

1^st 1^st 1^st 4^th

Royal County Down Golf Club is at Newcastle, a little holiday town nestling at the feet of the majestic Mountains of Mourne. It’s an exhilarating location for a classic links golf course...

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Royal Dornoch (Championship)

1^st 3^rd 5^th 12^th

Royal Dornoch Golf Club is spellbinding. It seems to mesmerise amateur and professional golfers from all over the world and many make the pilgrimage to this natural links at some point in their lives.

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Royal Liverpool

1^st 16^th 42^nd

Without doubt, Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a tough links. Only six holes are in the dunes – otherwise there is little protection from the ever-changing Hoylake wind.

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Royal Lytham & St Annes

2^nd 6^th 20^th 58^th

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club is the most northerly of the English championship links courses, situated only 10 miles from Royal Birkdale.

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Royal North Devon

2^nd 60^th

Royal North Devon Golf Club, or should we say Westward Ho! This nostalgic and monumental links course fits firmly into the “must-play” category.

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Royal Porthcawl

1^st 1^st 23^rd 66^th

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club is located off the beaten track, east of Swansea and west of Cardiff. Despite being the highest ranked course in Wales, it remains relatively unknown.

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Royal Portrush (Dunluce)

1^st 2^nd 4^th 11^th

The Dunluce links at Royal Portrush Golf Club is named after the ruined Dunluce castle that overlooks the course. Seven years after the club's formation, the first professional golf tournament in Ireland, won by Sandy Herd in 1895, was staged here.

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Royal St George's

1^st 1^st 8^th 22^nd

There's nothing artificial about Royal St George’s Golf Club; there's a natural look and feel to the course that blends beautifully into its historical Sandwich surroundings.

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Royal Troon (Old)

2^nd 13^th 32^nd

Royal Troon is a traditional out and back links course. On a clear day, you can see the distant Ailsa Craig in the south, and to the west, the majestic mountains on the Isle of Arran.

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The Amateur Leaderboard

Rank	Name	Courses Played
1	Stuart McLean	22
=	Stuart Eastwood	22
=	Paul Rudovsky	22
=	Joseph Andriole	22
=	Andy Newmarch	22
=	Bob McCoy	22
=	Malcolm Baker	22
=	KP	22
=	Brian Ward	22
=	David Oliver	22