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Top Ranked Mens Golfers Enter For 2008 Amateur Championship at Turnberry

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The world’s top two amateur golfers, Danny Willett and Rickie Fowler, head the list of entrants for the 2008 Amateur Championship. For those who wish to join them there are still six days left to enter the event, which will be held at Turnberry on 16-21 June.

Above, Daniel Willett (R&A Mens World Ranked Nos 1)

Willett and Fowler will be joined at Turnberry by four other players from the top 20 of the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Top amateur players from more than 24 countries will be playing, with entrants coming from locations as diverse as Brazil, Ghana and Saudi Arabia.

Among the favourites to lift the trophy will be Drew Weaver, the man who last year became the first American winner since 1979, and Tim Stewart of Australia, the man he beat in the final. Nigel Edwards, the Welshman who has played in the last four Walker Cups, will make another attempt to win amateur golf’s premier individual event, and a dozen members of the Bonallack Trophy and Palmer Cup teams will also take part.

This year will mark the 113th playing of the Amateur, and the fourth time that it has been played at Turnberry. On the previous occasions that the event has visited the Ayrshire course, it has been won by Sir Michael Bonallack (1961), Philip Parkin (1983) and Warren Bladon (1996).

Entries for the Amateur Championship must be received by Thursday May 15; golfers with a handicap of 0.0 or better are eligible to enter the event. An entry form can be downloaded from the Amateur Championship section of the R&A website at randa.org.

Source: R&A