The Championship Royal Burgess Details DESCRIPTION The field for each Regional Qualifying Tournament will be limited to a maximum of 60. If more than that number of The Golf Club Secretary, 24th Open Championship is open to entries is received, they will be accepted in receipt order. the Secretaries/Managers of all Clubs subscribing to The Golf Club Secretary and to contributors to the newsletter. PRIZES There will be ten Regional Qualifying Tournaments with up The competitor returning the best Stableford score in the Final to 20% of the field at each Tournament going forward to the will hold the Championship trophy for one year. Prizes will also Final. Each Tournament will be an 18 hole Stableford, with be awarded to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th best scores. a maximum handicap of 54 for both genders. Full handicap allowance will be given. The results will be determined under Prizes will be awarded at each of the ten Regional Tournaments. the CONGU 2008 guidelines Appendix O for Mixed Golf. MAILING ADDRESS There will be a card play-off for any scores that tie, based on Send to P.O. Box 72 72, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex CO13 0BP the last nine holes on each scorecard, including events that have two tee or shotgun starts. Play will usually be in three ENTRY FEE balls. The entry fee is £55 inc. VAT. BACS details are set out below or There are no restrictions as to the number of events that an please make cheques payable to Broadside Publishing Ltd. An individual can enter. email will be sent to each competitor confirming their entry. At each of the Regional Tournaments and at the Final there will ENQUIRIES be a meal followed by the prize giving. Any further enquiries should be made to: A full itinerary/draw will be emailed after the closing date and Michael Coffey, on 01255 676727 prior to each Tournament. E-mail: [email protected] The Championship Final The GCS – Open Championship returns to Saunton after 13 years when in 2006 Stephen Billings (Redlibbets) won the 10th Open Championship. This Final was also famed for yet another tie. The Finalists, for dinner in the art deco Saunton Sands Hotel, received a bow tie, that no one could tie… without the aid of a Colonel’s Lady. In 2020 there will be no such problem, with dinner being held in the clubhouse after the Sunday foursomes on the East and the Final over the West on Monday morning. The 24TH Open Championship 24TH Open Championship Entry Fee Of £55.00 Payable By BACS Broadside Publishing Ltd, A/C No. 92830080 Sort Code 60-05-33 Quoting your surname as a reference. Or payment by cheque to: The Golf Club Secretary, 24th Open Championship, P.O. Box 72 72, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex CO13 0BP To enter by email details of the following to [email protected] Designed and printed by VENUE: ON: NAME: HANDICAP: ADDRESS: CLUB: DATE: TEL: MOBILE TEL: No less than FIVE of the 24th Open venues appear in the GOLF MONTHLY Top 100 Courses for 2019/20 POSTCODE: EMAIL: #9 Sunningdale (New) #45 Saunton (East) #63 Moortown #70 Saunton (West) #94 Broadstone Teignmouth GC Denham GC South Devon | Thursday, 24th October 2019 Buckinghamshire | Tuesday, 31st March 2020 Moortown www.teignmouthgolfclub.co.uk www.denhamgolfclub.co.uk The most striking feature of the course is the magnificence Denham Golf Club was founded in 1910 when the course was of its situation. It was laid out on the high moor over 800 constructed and existing farm buildings dating back to the feet above sea level by Dr Alister MacKenzie, and opened in 16th Century were converted into a clubhouse. The parkland 1924. The good Doctor left a particular “signature” on all the course, designed by Harry Colt, opened for play on the 29th courses he designed which was in the way he laid out greens. of May 1911. His two experiences as a golf club Secretary He liked greens to have slopes, humps surrounding three doubtless led Colt to appreciate the advantages of a golf The sides of the green and he liked two-tier greens. The course course having two convenient starting places, the 1st and has changed little since its original conception and still has 10th. eleven ‘Mackenzie’ greens with a ‘step’ in them. “At a time when so many golf course architects believe in Qualifying Rounds moving heaven and earth during construction, Denham is a monument to the opposing school more used to accepting what it finds” Donald Steel. Goodwood GC Cavendish GC West Sussex | Monday, 22nd July 2019 Derbyshire | Monday, 7th October 2019 Moortown GC Woodbridge GC www.goodwood.com www.cavendishgolfclub.com Yorkshire | Monday, 28th October 2019 Suffolk | Tuesday, 7th April 2020 At the request of the Duke of Devonshire, Dr Alister MacKenzie www.moortown-golf-club.co.uk www.woodbridge.intelligentgolf.co.uk Mixed Foursomes was commissioned to design and build a brand new golf course in Buxton, on land specially selected for the purpose by the Duke. Moortown has always held a richly deserved reputation as one aka The Last Chance Saloon. Goodwood GC In 1925 the resultant course, widely regarded as ‘MacKenzie’s of the country’s finest championship golf courses. Designed Masterpiece’, took the Duke’s family name ‘Cavendish’ and the by Dr Alister MacKenzie, it is set in 175 acres of dramatically The club was founded in 1893 with the Heath course West Sussex | Tuesday, 23rd July 2019 course has been delighting golfers ever since. contrasting, mainly level, woodland and moorland. originally designed by Davie Grant, the famous North Berwick www.goodwood.com Seven years after creating Cavendish, MacKenzie was asked Over the years the Club has played host to countless professional. The course was modified in the late 1920s by by Bobby Jones, to design a course on a disused fruit farm in Championships, both amateur and professional tournaments. James Braid and has remained true to its layout ever since. It Designed in 1914 by legendary golf architect, designer of Georgia. Whilst most golfers can never hope to play Augusta Amongst the many notable amateur winners was Sir Michael is situated in the Suffolk Coastal Area of Outstanding Natural Gleneagles and Carnoustie and five times winner of the Open National, they can get a taste of the challenge by playing Bonallack who won the English Amateur Championship in Beauty that bursts into colour throughout the year. The GCS – Championship, James Braid, the downland course consists of Cavendish, regarded as the ‘Inspiration for Augusta’. A first 1962 and again shared the honours in the 1968 Brabazon Open returns to the Club after 19 years. fast-running fairways, undulating greens and dramatic changes visit by The GCS and to one of the few courses with its own Trophy. Perhaps Moortown’s greatest ‘claim to fame’ was of elevation in the downland valleys and hills which are both toboggan run. staging the first Ryder Cup match on European (English) soil a treat and a challenge. The Downs has recently undergone in 1929. GB won 7-5. renovation by leading golf architect Tom Mackenzie to retain Northants County GC the essential character of Braid’s concept while providing a challenge for the modern game. Golf at Goodwood inspires, Northamptonshire | Monday, 14th October 2019 you leave having always picked up a tip or having spotted a www.countygolfclub.co.uk bright idea. The original 18 holes were designed by Harry S Colt and the course has stood the test of time very well as relatively few The Royal Burgess GC major alterations have been made to it since. The most notable of these were carried out by James Braid, in 1947, when the | Final Midlothian Monday, 23rd September 2019 pattern and arrangement of many bunkers were altered and www.royalburgess.co.uk the 18th green was relocated to its present position in front of the clubhouse. With more than 280 years of history behind it, The Royal A further three splendid holes, designed by Cameron Sinclair, Burgess is widely recognised as the oldest Golf Club in the were opened in May 2004; these now provide a nine hole world and is one of the finest golf clubs in Scotland. The loop returning to the clubhouse, for those wishing to play nine course was designed by the legendary Willie Park Jr, is an or 27 holes. excellent example of parkland golf, whilst the clubhouse is The Club became a Regional Qualifying course for The Open an architectural ‘Arts and Crafts’ gem with displays of some Championship again in 2018. of the most interesting and historic golfing memorabilia and trophies. Sunningdale GC (New) Saunton Golf Club Broadstone GC Berkshire | Monday, 21st October 2019 North Devon | Sunday, 17th May & Monday, 18th May 2020 www.sauntongolf.co.uk www.sunningdale-golfclub.co.uk Dorset | Tuesday, 1st October 2019 Born in 1869 Harry Colt became a well-known golfer at www.broadstonegolfclub.com Although it is believed that a course existed in Braunton ground prior to the D-Day Landings and the Americans based Cambridge University, captaining the team in 1890, later Burrows in the early 1890s, Saunton Golf Club was not formed a large number of tanks in the dunes, with the West Course In 1898 the course was laid out by the most prolific designer playing in many Amateur and one Open Championship. until May 1897. The First World War brought an end to the being re-designed by Frank Pennink, who had won the English of his time, Tom Dunn who was then the Professional at nearby On graduating, he became a solicitor.