{"id":9309,"date":"2026-02-23T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:58:03","slug":"amateur-championship-royal-portrush-to-host-2027-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9309","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Championship: Royal Portrush to host 2027 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland will stage the Amateur Championship for the fourth occasion in 2027.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 132nd Amateur Championship will take place between 14-19 June. Qualifying will be held on the Dunluce and Valley links with the tournament to be played at Dunluce. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The venue has staged the event three times already with Bradley Neil winning the most recent tournament held there in 2014. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Ethan Fang won the 130th Amateur Championship at Royal St George&#8217;s and Royal Cinque Ports in Deal, England last year, defeating Gavin Tiernan in a one-hole victory in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Royal Portrush hosted the 2025 Open when Scottie Scheffler secured the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s Amateur will take place at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Considered one of the world&#8217;s most prestigious competitions outside the professional game, five-time European Tour winner and Northern Irishman Michael Hoey won the tournament in Prestwick in 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the last 10 years, the event has been held at Irish courses Ballyliffin in 2024, and Portmarnock in 2019. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland will stage the Amateur Championship for the fourth occasion in 2027. The 132nd Amateur Championship will take place between 14-19 June. Qualifying will be held on the Dunluce and Valley links with the tournament to be played at Dunluce. The venue has staged the event three times already with Bradley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}