British Youths Open Championship

The British Youths Open Championship was a youths golf tournament that was played from 1954 to 1994. It was 72-hole stroke-play event for golfers under 22. From 1954 to 1962 it was organised by a committee led by Sam Bunton, a Glasgow architect, and was open to assistant professionals as well as amateurs, but from 1963 it was taken over by The R&A and became an amateur-only event called the British Youths Open Amateur Championship.^[1] The R&A dropped the event because they felt it was no longer needed to bridge the gap between boy's and men's golf.^[2]

Winners[]

• 1954 (p)^[3]
• 1955 ^[4]
• 1956 ^[5]
• 1957 George Will^[6]
• 1958 (p)^[7]
• 1959 ^[8]
• 1960 Alex Caygill (p)^[9]
• 1961 ^[10]
• 1962 Alex Caygill (p)^[11]
• 1963 ^[12]
• 1964 Brian Barnes^[13]
• 1965 Peter Townsend^[14]
• 1966 Peter Oosterhuis^[15]
• 1967 ^[16]
• 1968 ^[17]
• 1969
• 1970 Baldovino Dassù^[18]
• 1971 Pip Elson^[19]
• 1972 Andrew Chandler
• 1973 Carl Mason^[20]
• 1974 ^[21]
• 1975 Nick Faldo^[22]
• 1976 ^[23]
• 1977 Sandy Lyle^[24]
• 1978 Brian Marchbank^[25]
• 1979 Gordon Brand Jnr
• 1980 ^[26]
• 1981 ^[27]
• 1982 Philip Parkin^[28]
• 1983 ^[29]
• 1984 ^[30]
• 1985 José María Olazábal^[31]
• 1986 David Gilford^[32]
• 1987 ^[33]
• 1988 Christian Cévaër
• 1989 ^[34]
• 1990 Mathias Grönberg
• 1991 Jim Payne
• 1992 Warren Bennett
• 1993 Lee Westwood
• 1994 Freddie Jacobson

(p) = professional

In 1954 there was an under-18 section which was won by Ronnie Shade.

International matches[]

In 1955 an international match between England and Scotland was arranged the day before the start of the championship, although the match had a lower age limit than that use in the championship itself.^[35] Another match was arranged the following year, although the result was decided on holes rather than matches.^[36] There was no match in 1957 but it was arranged again in 1958 and 1959.^[37][38] From 1960 the event was contested for the Alex Mackay Memorial Trophy.^[39]

In 1967 a second match was arranged, between Great Britain & Ireland and the Continent of Europe, later called the EGA Trophy. This was played the day before the start of the championship with the England/Scotland match being played a day earlier.^[40] The same system was retained for a number of years while the EGA Trophy match was played before the championship. In 1976 and on a number of occasions from 1980, the EGA Trophy match was not played in connection with the championship, and on those occasions the England/Scotland match was played the day before the championship rather than two days before.

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