Royal County Down Golf Club is a
golf club in
Northern Ireland, located in
Newcastle,
County Down
County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...
. It opened on 23 March 1889 and is one of the oldest golf clubs in
Ireland. It has two 18-hole
links courses
Course may refer to:
Directions or navigation
* Course (navigation), the path of travel
* Course (orienteering), a series of control points visited by orienteers during a competition, marked with red/white flags in the terrain, and corresponding ...
, the Championship Course and the Annesley Links.
Significant tournaments
Royal County Down has made outstanding contributions to Irish golf from the Club's beginnings, hosting many important tournaments, starting soon after it opened, and continuing to the present day. Notably, the Club in 2007 became just the second Irish venue, after
Portmarnock, to host the
Walker Cup. The
Irish Open on the
European Tour took place in late May in 2015, returning to Royal County Down after 76 years.
It previously hosted the event three times, all prior to
World War II. The
British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship were held on the course in June 2019.
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Senior British Open Championship
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: 2000 (winner:
Christy O'Connor Jnr), 2001 (winner:
Ian Stanley) and 2002 (winner:
Noboru Sugai
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Sugai was born in Tokyo, to Japanese father and a Russian mother. He turned professional in 1975 and has won three tournaments and over 275 million ¥ on the Japan Golf Tour.
In 2002, he became ...
).
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The Amateur Championship: 1970 (winner:
Michael Bonallack) and 1999 (winner:
Graeme Storm
Graeme Raymond Storm (born 13 March 1978) is an English professional golfer.
Career
Storm was born in Hartlepool. He learnt his trade at Hartlepool Golf Club, where he still holds the course record of 62. He won The Amateur Championship in 19 ...
).
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British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship: 1899 (winner:
May Hezlet), 1907 (winner:
May Hezlet), 1920 (winner:
Cecil Leitch
Charlotte Cecilia Pitcairn Leitch (13 April 1891 – 16 September 1977) was a British amateur golfer. She was born in Silloth, Cumberland, England, the daughter of a local physician and one of three sisters who excelled at the game of golf. ...
), 1927 (winner:
Simone de la Chaume), 1935 (winner:
Wanda Morgan
Wanda Morgan (22 March 1910 – 8 June 1995) was a leading English golfer of the 1930s. She won the Womens Amateur Championship in 1935, having been a runner-up in 1931. She also won the English Women's Amateur Championship three times, in 1931, ...
), 1950 (winner:
Vicomtesse de St Sauveur
Dorothée Sonia "Lally" Segard (née Vagliano) (4 April 1921 – 3 March 2018), also known as Vicomtesse de Saint Sauveur, was a French amateur golfer.
Early life
Segard was born in Paris and the oldest of three siblings of a Greek (born in Mars ...
), 1963 (winner:
Brigitte Varangot
Brigitte Varangot (1 May 1940 – 12 October 2007) was a French amateur golfer.
Early life
Varangot was born in Biarritz in the French Basque Country and was a self-taught golfer, who did not take many lessons and did not practice a lot. Lally ...
) and 2006 (winner:
Belén Mozo
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As an amateur, Mozo won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship in 2006. Later that year she joined the USC Troj ...
).
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Curtis Cup: 1968 United States defeated Great Britain & Ireland, 10.5 to 7.5.
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Walker Cup: 2007 United States defeated Great Britain & Ireland, 12.5 to 11.5.
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Palmer Cup
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: 2012 Europe defeated United States, 13½ to 10½.
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Irish Open: 1928, 1935, 2015
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European Ladies' Team Championship:
2021
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History
Royal County Down Golf Club secured 2nd place in golfscape's World's Top 100 Golf Course ranking 2020.
Scorecard
See also
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List of golf clubs granted Royal status
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Royal Portrush Golf Club
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Portstewart Golf Club
Portstewart Golf Club consists of three 18-hole courses situated in the town of Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Golf was first played there as far back as 1889.
The three courses are: the Strand Course (par 72), a championship ...
References
External links
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Golf Club Atlas
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Organisations based in the United Kingdom with royal patronage
Golf clubs and courses in Northern Ireland
Sports clubs in County Down
Curtis Cup venues
Walker Cup venues
Golf clubs and courses designed by Harry Colt
1889 establishments in Ireland
Irish Open (golf) venues