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EGA and R&A publish list of qualifying events for Junior Ryder Cup at Blue Mound

The 2018 European Junior Ryder Cup team at Disneyland Paris Golf

The 2018 European Junior Ryder Cup team featuring Stoke Park’s Conor Gough and Roehampton’s Annabell Fuller. Picture by ROMAIN MURAILLE / FFGOLF

THE selection process for The 2020 European Junior Ryder Cup team has been confirmed by Ryder Cup Europe and the European Golf Association (EGA).

Six boys and six girls captained by European Junior Ryder Cup captain Paul Lawrie will take on the USA at Milwaukee’s Blue Mound Golf & Country Club, in Wisconsin, in September.

They will be selected based on performances in international events in the coming season organised by The R&A and the EGA.

Boys and girls who are citizens of a European country as defined by IGF’s nationality policy, and are under 18 years of age on 1 January 2020, are eligible to participate in the 2020 Junior Ryder Cup – providing they are not enrolled to play college golf in the USA during 2020.

Three boys and three girls will earn their places on the team through a points-based Order of Merit system.

Using the World Amateur Golf Ranking, the Order of Merit will award points based on finishing position in those events.

The qualification process will end following the R&A Girls’ and Boys’ Amateur Championships on August 15 and 16, respectively.

The remaining six players will be selected by captain Lawrie, with performances specifically in international events, including the European Young Masters, and positions in the EGA European Amateur Golf Rankings expected to prove important in the final decision.

Selection in the Jacques Léglise and Junior Vagliano Trophies will also be taken into strong consideration, as will performances in previous editions of the Junior Ryder Cup.

“I’m excited for the qualification process to begin,” said Lawrie. “The prospect of seeing how Europe’s best young golfers perform over the course of the next 10 months or so is fascinating.

“I’m looking forward to getting to some of these events to watch as many as possible in action,” added the 1999 Open Champion winner, who is the last Scotsman to win a Major some 20 years on.

The Junior Ryder Cup, held biennially in the build-up to the Ryder Cup, sees the best male and female junior amateurs from Europe and the USA go head-to-head in a mixed event.

The 2020 Junior Ryder Cup will be played from September 21-22, with the Ryder Cup starting at Whistling Straits – also in Wisconsin – three days later.

Many of world golf’s biggest starts have in the past featured in the junior competition before excelling at the Ryder Cup and the Solheim Cup.

Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy both succeeded in the event before ending up on the winning side at a Ryder Cup, while Suzanne Peterson and Carlota Ciganda both triumphed as amateurs before lifting the Solheim Cup.

The 2018 European team featured Stoke Park’s Conor Gough, who is eligible again, having been crowned English Amateur Champion at just 16, in August, Peterborough Milton’s England Boys cap Robin Williams and Roehampton’s Curtis Cup player Annabel Fuller.

Danish twins Nicolai and Rasmus Hjøgaard were also in the team with Rasmus claiming his first European Tour win this weekend, while just 18 – proving how quickly youngsters can step up in the pro ranks having experienced the competition against the American’s best teenage talents.

Lawrie, who has played in two Ryder Cups and was a vice-captain to Darren Clarke in the heavy defeat at Hazeltine in 2016, was announced as Europe’s Junior Ryder Cup captain last week.

WRIE APPOINTED JUNIOR RYDER CUP CAPTAIN

The qualiying events for the boys are:–

Tournament – England
unless stated
Date
2020
Venue
Spanish International
Amateur Championship
Feb 26 –
March 1
Real Club Sevilla Golf,
Spain
French International Boys’
Championship
(Carlhian Trophy)
April
9 – 13
Golf des Aisses,
France
Lytham Trophy May
1 – 3
Royal Lytham &
St Annes GC
German Boys’ Open June
4 –6
GC St. Leon-Rot,
Germany
The Amateur Championship June
15 – 20
Royal Birkdale & West
Lancashire GC
European Amateur
Championship
June
24 – 27
Golf du Médoc Resort, France
European Amateur Team
Championship
July
7 – 11
Hilversumsche GC,
Netherlands
European Boys’ Team
Championship
(Jean-Louis Dupont Trophy)
July
7 – 11
Upsala GC, Sweden
R&A Boys’ Amateur
Championship
August
11 – 16
Moortown GC &
Alwoodley GC

The qualifying events for the girls are:–

Tournament – England
unless stated
Date
2020
Venue
Portuguese International Ladies’
Amateur Championship
Jan 29 –
Feb 1
Montado Golf
Resort, Portugal
Spanish International Ladies’
Amateur Championship
Feb 26 –
March 1
RCG Tenerife, Spain
French International Girls’
Championship (Esmond Trophy)
April
9 – 13
Saint Cloud GC,
France
German Girls’ Open June
4 – 6
GC St. Leon-Rot,
Germany
The Women’s Amateur
Championship
June
23 – 27
Kilmarnock
(Barassie) GC,
Scotland
European Ladies’ Team
Championship
July
7 – 11
GC Escorpión,
Spain
European Girls’ Team
Championship
July
7 – 11
ROSA Private GC, Poland
European Ladies’ Amateur
Championship
July
22 – 25
Kytäjä Golf,
Finland
R&A Girls’ Amateur Championship August
11 – 15
Southport &
Ainsdale GC

•To find out more about the Junior Ryder Cup click here.

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