19th May 2026

The 80^th English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy will be played at Moortown Golf Club, between Thursday 21st and Sunday 24th May 2026.

Turkish Airlines has become the headline sponsor of the Championship with effect from this year.

I will be updating this article with a scores link and daily reports once play commences.

Format

This four day competition consists of 72 holes of stroke play golf with 18 holes being played daily.

A 36 hole cut will reduce the field to the leading 60 competitors and ties.

In the event of a tie for the Championship there will be a sudden death play off.

All other places will be determined by a card count-back, starting with the final round and working backwards from there.

Field

144 competitors from 17 different countries will contest the 2026 Brabazon Trophy Championship.

With the NCAA U.S. college golf season, where the majority of the leading International and GB&I players are now engaged, not finishing until early June the Brabazon’s field quality is increasingly being impacted. The WAGR Power Ranking has been falling since 2022. It was 617.0619 in 2022, 467.2656 in 2023, 454.8860 in 2024 and 384.3262 in 2025.

The majority of the field were exempt with starting places offered to a number of national golf federations and to those players who have performed well in other recent Championships.

Biagio Andrea GAGLIARDI (ITA) will be defending the title he won last year at Hankley Common G.C.

Other notable players competing include (in alphabetical order) Eliot BAKER (ENG), John DOYLE (IRL), Andrew HASWELL (ENG), Hamish FARQUHARSON (AUS), Wolfgang GLAWE (GER), Lewy HAYWARD (ENG), Tom HUGHES (ENG), Kevin JEGERS (EST), Luke JENKINS (ENG), GUS LAFEBER (NED), Dawson LEW (CAN), Matt MCCLEAN (IRL), Aaron MOODY (ENG), Tom OSBORNE (ENG), Dylan SHAW-RADFORD (ENG), Harley SMITH (ENG), Jake SOWDEN (ENG), Henry STYLES (ENG), Gavin TIERNAN (IRL), Erik TJÄRNBERG (SWE), Jamie VAN WYK (ENG) and Scott WOLTERING (NED).

Three 18 hole regional Qualifying Tournaments were staged on 12th May 2026. 47 players have to date advanced from the Midland, Northern and Southern Qualifiers. A further number may make the final start sheet after being called up from the Alternates list.

Here is a summary of the three Qualifiers and a list of all the players who progressed: –

MIDLAND – Droitwich G.C. – Results
16 Qualifiers / 115 players
Andrew Isaacs (ENG), Alex Emms (ENG), Max Reynolds (ENG), Matthew Haynes (ENG), Ted Hodgkinson (ENG), Daniel Smith (ENG), Dempsie McFadyen (ENG), Kieran McCarthy (ENG), Jack Diment (ENG), Marco Cruse (ENG), Shreyas Sanmathy (ENG), Charlie McKinney (WAL), Theo Baker (WAL), Bryn Thomas (WAL) Alt. , Sam Norman (ENG) Alt. and James Hodgson (ENG) Alt.

NORTHERN – Bishop Auckland G.C. – Results
15 Qualifiers
– Kai Laing (SCO), Alex James (WAL), Jamie Duguid (SCO), Luke Kelly (ENG), Cole Self (ENG), Jack Richardson (ENG), Charlie Daughtrey (ENG), George Davies (ENG), Joshua Stephens (ENG), Nathan Ali (ENG), Campbell Kerr (AUS), Habib Khan (ENG), Lucas Martin (ENG), Alex North (ENG) Alt. and Archie Palmer (ENG) Alt.

SOUTHERN – Royal Ashdown Forest G.C. – Results
16 Qualifiers
Charlie Croker (ENG), Dylan Hussey (ENG), Tommy Evans (ENG), Scott Pym (ENG), Jenson Bull (ENG), Ryan Craig (ENG), Lucas Weisberg (ENG), Oliver Martin (ENG), Danial Parsons (ENG), Henry Linley (ENG), Ashley Watkins (ENG), Daniel Roberts (ENG), Toby Knevett (ENG), Charlie Rusbridge (ENG), Frankie Morton (ENG) Alt. and Charles Morgasn (ENG) Alt.

Tee Times

Play on the opening two days will commence at 7.00am with the final three-ball heading out at 3.30pm; all from the 1st tee.

Click here to view the – 2026 Brabazon Trophy Tee Times

Prizes

The Winner receives the magnificent gold Brabazon Trophy shown below.

The Champion’s Prize and The Brabazon Trophy (Photo: Golf Bible)

Prize vouchers will be awarded to those players finishing in the top five.

The event has been included in this year’s inaugural European Amateur Order of Merit Ranking and the winner will also receive an exemption into a HotelPlanner Tour professional event later in the year.

Two other prizes are connected to the Brabazon Trophy competition: –

The George Henriques Salver is awarded to the leading GB&I player in the Championship under the age of 20.

The Philip Scrutton Jug is awarded to the player returning the best aggregate scores in The Brabazon Trophy and The Berkshire Trophy. The latter was played on 16-17 May and won by Aaron MOODY (ENG) who is also competing this week.

Moortown Golf Club

Founded in 1909, Moortown, located in Leeds, was designed by the famous golf course architect Dr Alister MacKenzie.

Off the Championship Tees the course can be stretched to 7,001 yards and a par of 71. It has a Course Rating of 74.8 and a Slope Rating of 141.

It is a classic English heathland course which features firm, fast-running fairways, an abundance of heather and subtly contoured greens.

Moortown hosted the first Ryder Cup match on British soil in 1929 and since then has staged numerous professional and amateur tournaments.

10th Hole Moortown G.C. (Photo: Moortown G.C.)

Weather Forecast – on Tuesday 19th May 2026

The weather forecast suggests the Championship will be predominantly dry with temperatures warming up nicely over the weekend.

Thur 21st May – Cloudy / Wind 12 mph SW / Temp. Min. 11°C, Max. 17°C.
Fri 22nd May – Sunny AM / Showers PM / Wind 10 mph SW / Temp. Min. 15°C, Max. 26°C.
Sat 23rd May – Light Rain / Wind 8 mph W / Temp. Min. 11°C / Max. 25°C.
Sun 24th May – Sunny / Wind 5 mph W / Temp. Min. 11°C / Max. 24°C.

England Golf Event Website

Click here to view the – England Golf / Golf Genius Brabazon Trophy Website

2025 Brabazon Trophy

Biagio Andrea GAGLIARDI became the first Italian to win the Brabazon Trophy when he took the 2025 title at Hankley Common with a 276 (-8) score.

Biagio Andrea Gagliardi (Photo: England Golf / Leaderboard Photography)

Freddie TURNELL (ENG) -6 finished 2nd, Mattias VARJUN (EST) -5 3rd on count-back, Eliot BAKER (ENG)-5 4th and Billy DOWLING (AUS) -4 5th.

Final Brabazon Trophy Results (Photo: England Golf / Golf Genius)

Freddie TURNELL (ENG) also won The George Henriques Salver awarded to the highest finishing Under 20 GB&I player.

Recent Results

Click below to view the results over the last three years: –

Hankley Common – 2025 Brabazon Trophy Results

Hollinwell – 2024 Brabazon Trophy Results

Sunningdale – 2023 Brabazon Trophy Results

History, Past Winners and Records

The English Amateur International Trophy competition was first played in 1947.

In 1957 the official title was changed to the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship.

The current trophy was donated by Lord Brabazon of Tara in 1948 and the event has come to be widely known as the Brabazon Trophy.

Click here to view the full list of – Brabazon Trophy Past Winners

The first player to successfully defend the title was Ronnie WHITE who won at Birkdale in 1950 and nearby Formby in 1951.

Shortly afterwards Philip SCRUTTON won the Brabazon three times in four years (1952, ‘54 & ‘55).

Sir Michael BONALLACK has four wins to his name. The first came at Royal Cinque Ports in 1964 and the last at Hillside in 1971. At Moortown in 1969, with play-offs having been discarded at this time, he shared the title with Rodney FOSTER.

Other well known British winners of the Brabazon include Gordon BRAND Jnr, Sandy LYLE (2), Peter MCEVOY, Ronan RAFFERTY and Ronnie SHADE (3).

Other notable winners include well known pros Ignacio GARRIDO (1992), Peter HANSON (1998) and Charl SCHWARTZEL (2002), Jordan SMITH (2013) and Sam BAIRSTOW (2021).

ME.

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