Tournament information | |
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Location | United Kingdom |
Established | 1919 |
Course(s) | Various in United Kingdom |
Organized by | The R&A |
Format | Stroke play followed by match play |
Current champion | |
Havanna Torstensson |
The Girls Amateur Championship is a golf tournament held annually in the United Kingdom. Girls need to be under 18 on 1 January in the year of the championship.
Until World War II the championship was organised by a series of magazines and always held at Stoke Poges Golf Club near Slough. it was first held in 1919, although an event was planned in 1914 but was cancelled because of the start of World War I. After World War II it restarted in 1949 when the Ladies Golf Union took over the event. It is now run by The R&A, following the merger with the Ladies Golf Union in 2017.[1]