The a hundred and thirtieth Novice Championship is to be performed at Royal St George’s Golf Membership in Kent subsequent yr, 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 Novice 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 a hundred and thirtieth Novice Championship from June 16-21, 2025, has additionally hosted the Open Championship 16 occasions, most just 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 Novice in 2021 – welcomes The 122nd Girls’s Novice 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, Govt Director – Championships at The R&A, mentioned, “It is very important reinforce The R&A’s newbie championships and worldwide matches as pinnacle occasions in world elite newbie golf. We wish to appeal to the perfect 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 best venues in 2025.”
The R&A Ladies’ and Boys’ Novice championships will likely be held at Conwy and County Louth respectively in August, with the R&A Ladies’ U16 Novice Championship happening at Gog Magog in April. The R&A Girls’s and Males’s Senior Novice championships will likely be performed concurrently at Walton Heath in July.
A lot of different worldwide matches contested between GB&I and the Continent of Europe may even happen. The St Andrews Trophy will likely 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 women a month earlier. The boys’ equal match for the Jacques Léglise Trophy will likely be performed in August on the Royal Golf Membership of Belgium.
The Walker Cup and St Andrews Trophy being performed in the identical yr 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.
