Five Venues Confirmed for EGA Championship Calendar

30 Jul 2019

Five new venues have been confirmed for the EGA's Championship Calendar.

The 2020 European Amateur Championship will travel to France for the third time since the event's inauguration in 1986. Golf du Médoc, which previously hosted the event in 1998, will welcome some of the games best amateur players for a second time in late June next year.

The par-71 Chateaux course, regularly ranked amongst the top-20 golf courses in continental Europe, will present the challenge to the players for the 2020 edition of the event.

A venue has also been selected for the 2020 European Ladies' Amateur Championship. The event will make it's first ever trip to Finland in its 34-year history at the end of July next year to be played at Kytäjä Golf, the host of the 2018 Jacques Léglise Trophy.

Next year, the European Boys' Team Championship (Jean-Louis Dupont Trophy) will return to Upsala Golf Club in Sweden, having been played at the club 20 years ago in 1999. The hosts will be hoping that home advantage will help them once again after emerging victorious in 2012, the last time championship was contested in Sweden.

The 2020 European Girls' Team Championship will to travel to Poland for the first time. The host venue of the 2018 European Amateur Team Championship, Division 2, Rosa Private Golf & Country Club will set the stage for five days of competition as teams compete for the European Girls' Team Championship title.

The 2023 Jacques Léglise Trophy match between the Continent of Europe and Great Britain & Ireland will be played in France for just the second time when Golf de Chantilly sets the stage for Europe's best U18 golfers. The match was previously played at Golf de Chantilly in 2002, and will return to the same venue 21 years later.

 

The summary of the newly confirmed venues:

2020 Amateur Championship: FRANCE
Golf du Médoc Resort 24 - 27 June

2020 European Boys' Team Championship: SWEDEN
Upsala Golf Club 7-11 July

2020 European Girls' Team Championship: POLAND
Rosa Private Golf Club, 7-11 July

2020 European Ladies' Amateur Championship: FINLAND
Kytäjä Golf, 22-25 July

2023 Jacques Léglise Trophy: FRANCE
Golf de Chantilly, (dates tbc)

EGA Championship Calendar