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The Irish Amateur Open Championship will have a new home in 2017 following a 10-year run at Royal Dublin. The move will see the oldest Championship in Irish Amateur golf move to Royal County Down as of next year.
The Newcastle links has been the venue for the Irish Amateur Open in the past but this is the first occasion in modern times that RCD will be host.
Since the Irish Amateur Open was revived in the mid-1990s, Royal Dublin has become synonymous with the Championship and has witnessed a litany of great champions such as Portmarnock’s Noel Fox – a two-time winner – South African Louis Oosthuizen and The Island’s Gavin Moynihan, who captured his second title in 2015.
Widely regarded as the finest golf course in the world, Ireland’s premier Championship will return to Royal County Down after a 58-year gap. Jimmy Bruen (1938) and Cecil Ewing (1948) are among the list of players who have won Ireland’s blue-riband amateur championship at RCD.
In 2015 Royal County Down hosted the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open and it also staged the Walker Cup matches in 2007.
Flogas has also joined forces with the Golfing Union of Ireland to become the new title sponsor of the Flogas Irish Amateur Open Championship which takes place this week at Royal Dublin [May 5th - 8th].
Flogas has agreed a three-year sponsorship deal which continues into 2017 and 2018.
As an added incentive for this year’s winner at Royal Dublin, a place in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at The K Club awaits.
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