British Youths Open Championship

The British Youths Open Championship was a youths golf tournament that was played from 1954 to 1994. It was 72-hole stroke-play event for golfers under 22. From 1954 to 1962, it was organised by a committee led by Sam Bunton, a Glasgow architect, and was open to assistant professionals as well as amateurs, but from 1963, it was taken over by The R&A and became an amateur-only event, called: the British Youths Open Amateur Championship.^[1] The R&A dropped the event because they felt it was no longer needed to bridge the gap between boy's and men's golf.^[2] A 54-hole girls' event was also held. In 1963, the event was taken over by the Scottish Ladies' Golfing Association and called the Scottish Girls' Open Stroke-play Championship.

Year	Winner	Score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Venue	Ref
1954	John More (p)	287	1 stroke	David Mackie	Erskine	[3]
1955	Brian Stockdale	297	Playoff	Michael Bonallack	Pannal	[4][5]
1956	Alan Bussell	287	Playoff	Peter Binns	Barnton	[6][7]
1957	George Will	290	6 strokes	Angus Grossart	Pannal	[8]
1958	Richard Kemp (p)	281	7 strokes	Brian Huggett (p) Tony Jowle	Dumfries & County	[9]
1959	Tony Jowle	286	7 strokes	Tony Highfield (p) Jack Sanderson Eddie Shamash	Pannal	[10]
1960	Alex Caygill (p)	279	7 strokes	Campbell Brownlee	Pannal	[11]
1961	John Martin	284	5 strokes	Alan Scott	Bruntsfield Links	[12]
1962	Alex Caygill (p)	287	12 strokes	Cliff Bowman	Pannal	[13]
1963	Alistair Low	283	Playoff	David Murdoch	Pollok	[14][15]
1964	Brian Barnes	290	4 strokes	Scott Macdonald George Macgregor	Pannal	[16]
1965	Peter Townsend	281	3 strokes	Buddy Allin	Gosforth Park	[17]
1966	Peter Oosterhuis	219	4 strokes	Bob Durrant Michael Kelley	Dalmahoy	[18]
1967	Peter Benka	278	Playoff	Bernard Gallacher	Copt Heath	[19]
1968	Peter Benka	281	Playoff	Bob Durrant	Ayr Belleisle	[20]
1969	John Cook	289	2 strokes	Baldovino Dassù Andrew Forrester Leonard Owens	Lindrick	[21]
1970	Baldovino Dassù	276	2 strokes	Alan Bird	Barnton	[22]
1971	Pip Elson	277	3 strokes	Warren Humphreys	Northamptonshire County	[23]
1972	Andrew Chandler	281	2 strokes	Pip Elson	Glasgow Gailes	[24]
1973	Carl Mason	284	3 strokes	Garry Harvey	Southport and Ainsdale	[25]
1974	David Robertson	284	3 strokes	Sandy Stephen	Downfield	[26]
1975	Nick Faldo	278	1 stroke	Martin Poxon	Pannal	[27]
1976	Malcolm Lewis	277	Playoff	Peter Wilson	Gullane	[28]
1977	Sandy Lyle	285	6 strokes	Steve Martin Paul McKellar	Moor Park	[29]
1978	Brian Marchbank	278	3 strokes	Hugh Evans	East Renfrewshire	[30]
1979	Gordon Brand Jnr	291	1 stroke	Colin Dalgleish Paul Gallagher	Woodhall Spa	[31]
1980	Garry Hay	303	Playoff	Philip Walton	Royal Troon	[32]
1981	Torbjörn Antevik	290	1 stroke	John Huggan	West Lancashire	[33]
1982	Philip Parkin	280	7 strokes	Colin Dalgleish	New course, St Andrews	[34]
1983	Paul Mayo	290	1 stroke	Craig Laurence	Sunningdale	[35]
1984	Richard Morris	281	2 strokes	Andy Clapp	Blairgowrie	[36]
1985	José María Olazábal	291	6 strokes	Steven Bottomley Andrew McQueen Eoghan O'Connell	Ganton	[37]
1986	David Gilford	283	8 strokes	Jan Pedersen	Carnoustie	[38]
1987	James Cook	283	Playoff	Olle Nordberg	Hollinwell	[39]
1988	Christian Cévaër	275	Playoff	Craig Cassells	Royal Aberdeen	[40]
1989	Mike Smith	285	Playoff	Andrew Coltart	Ashburnham	[41]
1990	Mathias Grönberg	275	1 stroke	Andrew Coltart	Southerness	[42]
1991	Jim Payne	287	Playoff	Ralph Hutt	Woodhall Spa	[43]
1992	Warren Bennett	282	3 strokes	Stephen Pullan	Gosforth Park	[44]
1993	Lee Westwood	278	8 strokes	Steven Carmichael	Glasgow Gailes	[45]
1994	Freddie Jacobson	277	2 strokes	Simon Hurd	Royal St David's	[46]

(p) = professional

In 1954 there was an under-18 section which was won by Ronnie Shade.

In 1955, an international match between England and Scotland was arranged the day before the start of the championship, although the match had a lower age limit than that used in the championship.^[47] Another match was arranged the following year, although the result was decided on holes rather than matches.^[48] There was no match in 1957 but it was arranged again in 1958 and 1959.^[49][50] From 1960, the event was contested for the Alex Mackay Memorial Trophy.^[51]

In 1967, a second match was arranged, between Great Britain & Ireland and the Continent of Europe, later called the EGA Trophy. This was played the day before the start of the championship with the England/Scotland match being played a day earlier.^[52] The same system was retained for a number of years while the EGA Trophy match was played before the championship. In 1976, and on a number of occasions from 1980, the EGA Trophy match was not played in connection with the championship, and on those occasions, the England/Scotland match was played the day before the championship rather than two days before.

The girls' section of the British Youths Open Championship was inauguated in 1955 and played over 54 holes. It was later called the British Girls' Stroke-play Championship. In 1963, the event was taken over by the Scottish Ladies' Golfing Association and called the Scottish Girls' Open Stroke-play Championship.^[53] The Scottish under-21 event was played from 1963 until 2015, when it was dropped from the schedule. The last winner was Cloe Frankish.^[54]

• 1955 Marjory Fowler^[55]
• 1956 Belle McCorkindale^[56]
• 1957 Marjory Fowler^[57]
• 1958 Ruth Porter^[58]
• 1959 Diane Robb^[59]
• 1960 Julia Greenhalgh^[60]
• 1961 Diane Robb^[61]
• 1962 Susan Armitage^[62]
• 1963 Ann Irvin^[63]