Notts & Coxmoor

14 – 19 August 2012

2011 Champion: Harrison Greenberry (England)

Exeter's Harrison Greenberry was triumphant at Burnham and Berrow & Enmore Park after a tense final 36-hole matchplay encounter with Lincolnshire's Patrick Kelly.  Greenberry eventually claimed the title on the first extra hole, after losing his grasp on the two shot lead he held at the halfway stage.  

In August 2012, the rolling hills of north Nottinghamshire will play host to the Boys Amateur Championship, at both Notts and Coxmoor Golf Clubs. Both courses will present some of the world’s finest golfers aged 18 or under with a stern test of traditational British heathland golf.

Notts (Hollinwell) Golf Course, known as one of Britain's finest inland courses, has a long history of hosting top amateur events, such as the English Amatuer, the Brabazon Trophy and also the Jacques Leglise Trophy in 2007.

The Boys Championship was inaugurated by two members of Royal Ascot Golf Club in 1921 and played by competitors under the age of 16. The age limit was raised to 18 two years later and in 1948 Colonel Thomas South, one of the founders of the event, decided to retire and invited The R&A to take over the administration. Sir Michael Bonallack, past Captain and Secretary of The R&A, was Boys Champion in 1952 and went on to capture the Amateur Championship five times.