The Lytham Trophy is an amateur golf tournament founded in 1965 by the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, where it has always been held. It is a 72-hole scratch stroke play competition, and is classified as a Category A event by the World Amateur Golf Rankings.[1]

Lytham Trophy
Tournament information
LocationLytham St Annes, Lancashire, England
Established1965
Course(s)Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Par70
Length7,118 yards (6,509 m)
FormatStroke play
Month playedMay
Tournament record score
Aggregate266 James Heath (2004)
Current champion
Frank Kennedy

In 2004 James Heath set a new tournament record with an 18 under par total of 266, winning by eight strokes over Ross Fisher. His total was five strokes better than the 271 posted by Tom Lehman when he won The Open Championship in 1996, and is believed to be a record four round total over the course.[2]

Winners

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Year Winner[3] Country Score
2024 Will Hopkins   England 279
2023 Frank Kennedy   England 278
2022 John Gough   England 280
2020–2021: Cancelled
2019 Joshua McMahon   England 288
2018 Matthew Jordan   England 272
2017 Jack Singh Brar   England 288
2016 Alfie Plant   England 284
2015 Marcus Kinhult   Sweden 280
2014 Thriston Lawrence   South Africa 281
2013 Albert Eckhardt   Finland 287
2012 Daan Huizing   Netherlands 273
2011 Jack Senior   England 299
2010 Paul Cutler   Northern Ireland 284
2009 James Robinson   England 287
2008 Matt Haines   England 284
2007 Lloyd Saltman   Scotland 279
2006 Jamie Moul   England 279
2005 Gary Lockerbie   England 276
2004 James Heath   England 266
2003 Stuart Wilson   Scotland 283
2002 Lee Corfield   England 283
2001 Richard McEvoy   England 276
2000 David Dixon   England 285
1999 Tino Schuster   Germany 283
1998 Lorne Kelly   Scotland 288
1997 Graham Rankin   Scotland 279
1996 Matt Carver   Australia 284
1995 Stephen Gallacher   Scotland 281
1994 Warren Bennett   England 285
1993 Tony McLure   England 292
1992 Stuart Cage   England 294
1991 Gary Evans   England 284
1990 Gary Evans   England 291
1989 Neil Williamson   England 286
1988 Paul Broadhurst   England 291
1987 David Wood   Wales 293
1986 Steve McKenna   England 297
1985 Michael Walls   England 291
1984 John Hawksworth   England 289
1983 Stephen McAllister   Scotland 299
1982 Martin Sludds   Ireland 306
1981 Roger Chapman   England 221[nb 1]
1980 Ian Hutcheon   Scotland 293
1979 Peter McEvoy   England 279[nb 2]
1978 Brian Marchbank   Scotland 288
1977 Peter Deeble   England 296
1976 Michael Kelley   England 292
1975 George Macgregor   Scotland 299
1974 Charlie Green   Scotland 291
1973 Geoff Birtwell
Michael King
  England
  England
292 (tie)
1972 Michael Bonallack   England 281
1971 Warren Humphreys   England 292
1970 Geoff Birtwell
Jim Farmer
Charlie Green
Geoff Marks
  England
  England
  Scotland
  Scotland
296 (tie)
1969 Tom Craddock   Ireland 290
1968 Rodney Foster   England 286
1967 Rodney Foster   England 296
1966 Peter Townsend   England 290
1965 Michael Bonallack
Clive Clark
  England
  England
295 (tie)
  1. ^ Tournament reduced to 54 holes.
  2. ^ Tournament reduced to 68 holes.

References

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  1. ^ "Event Strength". World Amateur Golf Rankings. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  2. ^ Meredith, Bill (7 May 2004). "Amateur Golf: Heath makes light of Lytham". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
  3. ^ "The Lytham Trophy Winners". Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
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