The one hundred and thirtieth Newbie Championship is to be performed at Royal St George’s Golf Membership in Kent subsequent 12 months, after the famed Kent hyperlinks was named among the many host venues for main R&A-organised occasions in 2025.
Harry Ellis was victorious when The Newbie Championship was final held at Royal St George’s in 2017, whereas close by Royal Cinque Ports, which hosted the championship in 2013, has been chosen to host the pre-qualifying occasion on June 13.
The Sandwich-based membership, which is able to host the The one hundred and thirtieth Newbie Championship from June 16-21, 2025, has additionally hosted the Open Championship 16 instances, most lately in 2021, and stretching all the best way again to 1894.
The world’s main girls amateurs will head for the Highlands in Scotland as Nairn – the venue for The Newbie in 2021 – welcomes The 122nd Ladies’s Newbie Championship from 9–14 June.
Broadcaster Maureen Madill took the title when Nairn final hosted the Championship in 1979.
The Walker Cup, the biennial encounter between main male amateurs from GB&I and the USA, takes place at Cypress Level in California from 6–7 September 2025 with Dean Robertson captaining the guests.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, Government Director – Championships at The R&A, stated, “It is very important reinforce The R&A’s newbie championships and worldwide matches as pinnacle occasions in international elite newbie golf.
We wish to entice the very best gamers from across the globe to compete and, as such, it’s becoming to have our championships and worldwide matches hosted at a number of the world’s most interesting venues in 2025.”
OTHER TOURNAMENT VENUES
The R&A Ladies’ and Boys’ Newbie championships shall be held at Conwy and County Louth respectively in August, with the R&A Ladies’ U16 Newbie Championship going down at Gog Magog in April.
The R&A Ladies’s and Males’s Senior Newbie championships shall be performed concurrently at Walton Heath in July.
Various different worldwide matches contested between GB&I and the Continent of Europe can even happen. The St Andrews Trophy shall be staged at Actual Membership de la Puerta de Hierro in Spain in July, whereas Royal Hague Golf & Nation Membership within the Netherlands will welcome the Vagliano and Junior Vagliano trophies for girls and ladies a month earlier.
The boys’ equal match for the Jacques Léglise Trophy shall be performed in August on the Royal Golf Membership of Belgium.
The Walker Cup and St Andrews Trophy being performed in the identical 12 months is a part of a realignment, which is able to see the Walker Cup transfer to even years from 2026 and the St Andrews Trophy transfer to odd years from 2025.
