The 2009 Open Champioship starts now

Yesterday at various venues around the UK, The 2009 Open Championship started (and finished) for many of our Home Players.

The Regional Qualifying took place, if anyone wants to see how your Pro or Amateurs from your Club did, the full results are available on "Opengolf" Web Site.

The link:- http://www.opengolf.com/ChampionshipGolf/TheOpenChampionship/Qualification/RegionalQualifying.aspx

TheLyth

 

Thanks Lyth.

Yeah had a look at this yesterday, our Pro didn't do very well - didn't qualify.

How do you get into these regional qualifiers?  Just out of interest.

David the winner at Gog Magog isn't a relation is it

 

SCORES: GOG MAGOG, Wednesday 24 June 2009

Player, Club/CountryScoreStatus Neil Lythgoe, Royal Norwich 68 Qualified Daniel Wood, Brampton Heath 69 Qualified Nick Soto, Northants County 69 Qualified Jon Wetton, Nuneaton 70 Qualified Patrick Spraggs (A), Stowmarket 71 Qualified

 

No Darren he isn't (not close anyway) thou if he wins I may adopt him.

He may be related to the Lythgoe who used to play football for Norwich City.

TheLyth

Chris,

The exact criteria may have changed but it used to be that you had to be 2Hcp or below to enter as an Amateur or a PGA Pro. You then picked which Course you wanted to play and the R&A tried to put you at that venue.

Scratch or lower Amateurs were exempt from the Regional Qualifying and went straight into Final Qualifying along with the higher ranked Tour Pro's.

The Official entry form was found in the "Golf Illustrated" around March time, something to do with the 'deal' they had with the R&A. It used to be The Golf Illustrated Exhibition Tent where you found all the Manufacturers Stands.

TheLyth

 Thanks Lyth, interesting reading and reassuring that the great and the good (tho' not on that day) are capable of shooting 80+...hey we're just as good as them!

Cheers David, right so I've got till next year to get down to a 2 handicap or better!! 

I love the fact that anybody with a certain handicap can have a go!

To a lot of people there are a number of Free Events that are good viewing. The Regional and Final Qualifying for The Open are two of them. Specially if a Play-Off is needed, which it usually is.

Pro Golf has changed a lot over the last thirty years. As a youngster you learned the Trade in the Monday Qualifiers, today you learn it on the Amateur Circuit. The problem is that for every Rory McIlroy that makes it, there are several Seve,s that don't.

TheLyth