REGISTRATION

Opens: Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Closes: Friday, May 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Entry fee: Welsh Men's Seniors Championship Entry Fee 1 x £65.00 per Member

Payment: This event has a handicap ballot. Card payment information will be collected and authorised at the time of registration, but your card will not be charged until players are successful in the ballot and confirmed in our system. This will usually be within the first few days following the entry deadline. Please update your card details in your Golf Genius account if they change between entry and this time. 

 

SUMMARY

 

Entry Qualifications

a) Competitors must be of amateur status as defined by the R&A Rules Limited

b) Competitors must either identify as male, trans female or non-binary whose set assigned at birth was male, or trans male

c) Competitors must be in possession of a male assigned WHS Handicap Index of 12.0 or less

    or

    Competitors who identify as trans female with a female assigned WHS Handicap Index of 8.0 or less

d) Entries will only be accepted from players who can meet one of the following criteria requirements:

    i)    Born in Wales

    ii)   One of your parents was born in Wales

    iii)  One of your grandparents was born in Wales

    iv)  Resided in Wales for three years prior to day 1 of the Championship

    v)   Previously represented Wales at Junior or Adult level in Home International Matches or European Team Championships or World Amateur Team Championships (players will be asked to provide evidence of this).

e) Entrants MUST NOT have played in the Men’s Closed Championship (or Men’s Seniors Closed Championship) of another country within the last three years or have ever played in the Full or Seniors International Team of another country.

f)  Entrants holding both an official WHS Handicap and an overseas handicap must enter this Championship using their WHS Handicap Index

g) All entrants must be 55 years of age or over on day 1 of the Championship.

h) Failure to enter in accordance with this condition will result in entry being denied.

i) All queries around transgender eligibility are to be directed towards competitions@walesgolf.org.

 

It shall be played over 54 holes. 18 holes on day one, 18 holes on day two and the top 60 and ties will qualify to play 18 holes on day three.

 

The Winner shall be the competitor who returns the lowest score over the 54 holes. In the event of a tie, there will be a hole by hole playoff over holes to be decided by the Championship Committee.

 

A maximum of 144 competitors shall play in the Championship, held at Aberdovey Golf Club. 

 

USEFUL LINKS

Terms of Competition | Wales Golf Hard Card