Famend venues in Nice Britain and Eire and past will host The R&A’s novice championships, worldwide matches and Scholar Tour Sequence in 2026.
The 123rd Girls’s Novice Championship will make its debut at Muirfield as The Honourable Firm of Edinburgh Golfers welcome the world’s finest girls amateurs to its famed hyperlinks in Gullane, Scotland from 22-27 June.
Muirfield most lately hosted the AIG Girls’s Open when Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa emerged as champion in 2022 and has additionally hosted the Curtis Cup in 1952 and 1984 in addition to The Vagliano Trophy in 1963 and 1975.
The 131st Novice Championship will head to famed venues Royal Liverpool – host to The Open on 13 events – and West Lancashire from 15–20 June, with a pre-qualifier on the latter on 12 June.
LAST TIME AT HOYLAKE
Mikko Ilonen of Finland was victorious when The Novice Championship was final held at Royal Liverpool in 2000, whereas West Lancashire – which has hosted Ultimate Qualifying for The Open on three events up to now 4 years – additionally co-hosted The Novice with Formby most lately in 2009 when Matteo Manassero triumphed.
The Curtis Cup, the biennial encounter between main girls amateurs from GB&I and the USA, takes place at Bel-Air Nation Membership in California from 12-14 June 2026 with Catriona Matthew OBE captaining the guests who at the moment maintain the Cup.
Later within the 12 months on house soil, the boys’s equal, the Walker Cup, will probably be contested at Lahinch from 5-6 September.
The Walker Cup and Curtis Cup being performed in the identical 12 months is a part of a realignment, which can see the 2 matches performed in the identical 12 months however on reverse sides of the Atlantic.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, Government Director – Championships at The R&A, mentioned, “It’s a precedence for The R&A to bolster the standing of our novice championships, worldwide matches and Scholar Tour Sequence as main occasions in elite novice golf.
“We purpose to draw the most effective gamers from all over the world and staging these competitions at a few of the recreation’s most prestigious venues in 2026 underlines their significance.
“We’re notably happy that Muirfield will host The Girls’s Novice Championship for the primary time, including one other important chapter to the championship’s distinguished historical past.”
OTHER EVENTS
The R&A Ladies’ and Boys’ Novice championships will probably be held at Craigielaw and Gailes Hyperlinks respectively from 10-15 August, with the R&A Ladies’ U16 Novice Championship returning to Gog Magog from 24-26 April. The R&A Girls’s and Males’s Senior Novice championships will probably be performed concurrently at Frilford Heath from 7-10 July.
Worldwide matches between GB&I and the Continent of Europe may even happen in 2026 with the Jacques Léglise Trophy and the Junior Vagliano Trophy contested at The Island from 21-22 August.
The Scholar Tour Sequence, which supplies aggressive alternatives for scholar golfers exterior of the USA and Mexico, returns for its sixth season in 2025 and 2026 and continues to happen on prestigious programs.
The Sequence begins at Halmstad in Sweden (10-12 September 2025) earlier than persevering with onto Malone, Eire (7-9 October 2025), Troia, Portugal (3-5 February 2026) and La Sella, Spain (24-26 February 2026). The Scholar Tour Sequence Ultimate will then happen in St Andrews from 30 March to 1 April 2026.
