Sunningdale Foursomes
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Sunningdale, Berkshire, England |
| Established | 1934 |
| Course(s) | Sunningdale Golf Club |
| Format | Foursomes match play |
| Month played | March |
The Sunningdale Foursomes is an open foursomes golf tournament contested at the Sunningdale Golf Club, Berkshire, in March. It was first contested in 1934 and has been held annually since, except between 1940 and 1947. The event is open to all golfers. Players are handicapped based only on whether they are male or female, professional or amateur.
Format
The event is played over four days each March at Sunningdale Golf Club and is open to all golfers. Any combination of male or female, professional or amateur, is allowed. The format is foursomes match play, the field being limited to 128 pairs. For the first two rounds both the Old and New courses are used, but thereafter only the Old course is used. Players are handicapped based solely on whether they are male or female, professional or amateur.
Handicaps
The handicaps have varied slightly over the years. The current handicaps are:
- Male professionals: +1
- Male amateurs: 0
- Female professionals: 2
- Female amateurs: 3
Before 2023 female amateurs received a handicap of 4,
All competitors play from the same tees. Currently pairs receive the full difference of the combined handicaps, so that two female amateurs will receive 8 strokes from two male professionals.
Winners
| Year | Winners | Margin of victory |
Runners-up | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Diana Fishwick & Noel Layton | 2 & 1 | Molly Gourlay & Geoffrey Hawkins | |
| 1935 | Joyce Wethered & John Morrison | 3 & 2 | Pam Barton & Leslie Garnett | |
| 1936 | Joyce Wethered & John Morrison | 5 & 4 | Dennis Kyle & William Aitken | |
| 1937 | Stanley Anderson & Dai Rees | 5 & 4 | George Hannay & Bob French | |
| 1938 | Pam Barton & Alf Padgham | 19 holes | Leonard Crawley & Francis Francis | |
| 1939 | Cornelis Rissik & Bob Kenyon | 19 holes | Corrin Bell & Cecil Denny | |
| 1940–1947 Suspended during World War II | ||||
| 1948 | Wanda Morgan & Sam King | 2 & 1 | Philip Risdon & Dick Burton | |
| 1949 | Bob French & Stewart Field | 1 up | Jacqueline Gordon & Jack Knipe | |
| 1950 | Max Faulkner & Jack Knipe | 6 & 5 | Francis Francis & Arthur Lees | |
| 1951 | Jean Donald & Tom Haliburton | 3 & 2 | Alan Poulton & Bob French | |
| 1952 | Philip Scrutton & Alan Waters | 2 & 1 | Alan Poulton & Bob French | |
| 1953 | Jean Donald & Tom Haliburton | 3 & 2 | Dennis Smalldon & Graham Knipe | |
| 1954 | Philip Scrutton & Alan Waters | 4 & 3 | Peter Mills & Tony Harman | |
| 1955 | Bill Sharp & Syd Scott | 2 & 1 | Bob French & Eddie Ward | |
| 1956 | Graham Knipe & Dennis Smalldon | 3 & 2 | Leonard Crawley & George Foster | |
| 1957 | Brian Huggett & Ross Whitehead | 1 up | Robin Galloway & Sandy Robertson | |
| 1958 | Jean Donald & Peter Alliss | 1 up | David Beard & Brian Bamford | |
| 1959 | Michael Bonallack & Doug Sewell | 5 & 3 | Tony Slark & Peter Gill | |
| 1960 | Belle McCorkindale & Maurice Moir | 19 holes | Hugh Squirrell & Sid Mouland | |
| 1961 | Jean Anderson & Peter Alliss | 2 & 1 | Wally Dubabney & Tony Grubb | |
| 1962 | Neil Coles & Ross Whitehead | 3 & 2 | Michael Burgess & Martin Christmas | |
| 1963 | Lionel Platts & David Snell | 4 & 3 | Keith MacDonald & Ian MacDonald | |
| 1964 | Bruce Critchley & Robin Hunter | 2 & 1 | Peter Green & Michael Burgess | |
| 1965 | Marley Spearman & Tony Fisher | 1 up | Michael Burgess & Peter Green | |
| 1966 | Robin Davenport & Sandy Walker | 4 & 3 | Freddie Sunderland & Graham Burroughs | |
| 1967 | Neil Coles & Keith Warren | 19 holes | Brigitte Varangot & Clive Clark | |
| 1968 | John Davies & Warren Humphreys | 6 & 4 | Max Faulkner & Brian Barnes | |
| 1969 | Peter Benka & Peter Oosterhuis | 3 & 2 | Catherine Lacoste & Jean-Michel Larretche | |
| 1970 | Anne Willard & Bob Barrell | 2 & 1 | Mary Everard & Robin Hunter | |
| 1971 | Alan Bird & Harry Flatman | 3 & 2 | Kathryn Phillips & John Putt | |
| 1972 | John Davies & Michael King | 6 & 5 | John Tullis & Tony Howard | |
| 1973 | John Putt & Mary Everard | 6 & 5 | Carl Mason & Howard Clark | |
| 1974 | Clive Clark & Peter Butler | 1 up | Howard Clark & Nick Brunyard | |
| 1975 | Abandoned due to snow | |||
| 1976 | Clive Clark & Mike Hughesdon | 2 & 1 | Bernard Hunt & Ian Stungo | |
| 1977 | Geoffrey Hunt & David Matthew | 3 & 2 | David Huish & Garry Logan | |
| 1978 | Julia Greenhalgh & Alex Caygill | 5 & 4 | Carole Caldwell & Arnold Stickley | |
| 1979 | George Will & Roger Chapman | 3 & 2 | Neil Coles & Doug McClelland | |
| 1980 | Neil Coles & Doug McClelland | 2 & 1 | John O'Leary & Carl Mason | |
| 1981 | Alan Lyddon & Gordon Brand Jnr. | 1 up | Michael King & Mark Dixon | |
| 1982 | Christine Langford & Mickey Walker | 1 up | Maureen Madill & Mary McKenna | |
| 1983 | John Davies & Martin Devetta | 4 & 3 | Linda Bayman & Mike Hughesdon | |
| 1984 | Maureen Madill & Mary McKenna | 3 & 2 | Mickey Walker & Christine Langford | |
| 1985 | John O'Leary & Sam Torrance | 25 holes | Bernard Gallacher & Pat Garner | |
| 1986 | Ronan Rafferty & Roger Chapman | 1 up | Maureen Garner & Mary McKenna | |
| 1987 | Ian Mosey & Warren Humphreys | 3 & 2 | Gillian Stewart & David Huish | |
| 1988 | Carl Mason & Andrew Chandler | 5 & 3 | Maureen Garner & Mary McKenna | |
| 1989 | Andrew Hare & Russell Claydon | 4 & 3 | Vicki Thomas & Julie Wade | |
| 1990 | Corinne Dibnah & Dale Reid | 7 & 6 | Tracey Craik & Peter Hughes | |
| 1991 | Jeremy Robinson & Wayne Henry | 4 & 3 | Bruce Critchley & Robin Hunter | |
| 1992 | Richard Boxall & Derrick Cooper | 3 & 2 | Paul Sherman & Paul Page | |
| 1993 | Andy Beal & Lee S. James | 2 & 1 | David Wood & Lloyd Warwick | |
| 1994 | Anthony Wall & Steve Webster | 2 up | David Howell & Gary Harris | |
| 1995 | Richard Boxall & Derrick Cooper | 2 & 1 | Iain Mackenzie & Malcolm Mackenzie | |
| 1996 | Luke Donald & Michael O’Connor | 2 & 1 | Julie Forbes & Gillian Stewart | |
| 1997 | Julie Hall & Helen Wadsworth | 4 & 3 | Jeremy Robinson & David R. Jones | |
| 1998 | Warren Bennett & David Fisher | 4 & 3 | Richard Hodgkinson & Philip Carr | |
| 1999 | Liza Walters & Richard McEvoy | 5 & 4 | Bill McColl & Stephen Shields | |
| 2000 | Carole Caldwell & Richard Caldwell | 2 & 1 | Johanna Head & Samantha Head | |
| 2001 | Clare Lipscombe & Stewart Little | 2 & 1 | Trish Johnson & Jamie Spence | |
| 2002 | John Kemp & Mark Wharton | 1 up | Glenn Ralph & Tim Spence | |
| 2003 | Ross Fisher & Simon Griffiths | 4 & 3 | Pip Elson & Jamie Elson | |
| 2004 | Ross Fisher & Simon Griffiths | 6 & 5 | Joe Templer & Richard Campbell | |
| 2005 | Paul Jenkinson & Gary Lockerbie | 2 & 1 | Chris Rodgers & Barry Monks | |
| 2006 | Danielle Masters & Ben Evans | 2 & 1 | James Morrison & Colin Roope | |
| 2007 | James Mason & Neil Walker | 2 up | James Freeman & Robert Steele | |
| 2008 | Craig Cowper & Neil Reilly | 1 up | Rachel Drummond & Matt Haines | |
| 2009 | Stiggy Hodgson & John Stansbury | 3 & 2 | Tom Shadbolt & Mark Laskey | |
| 2010 | Neil Reilly & Craig Cowper | 1 up | Charlotte Wild & Nikki Foster | |
| 2011 | Sebastian Crookall-Nixon & James Atkinson | 1 up | Hayley Davis & Scott Godfrey | |
| 2012 | Jess Wilcox & Greg Payne | 3 & 1 | James Little & Liam Bond | |
| 2013 | Phillip Archer & Sam Walker | 19 holes | Steven Tiley & Ricki Neil Jones | |
| 2014 | Annabel Dimmock & Steven Brown | 1 up | Inci Mehmet & Oscar Granström-Livesey | |
| 2015 | Charlotte Austwick & Jack Clarke | 1 up | Matthew Southgate & Simon Wakefield | |
| 2016 | Sophie Lamb & Marco Penge | 5 & 4 | Lewis Atkinson & Scott Marshall | |
| 2017 | Graham Powell & Henry Smart | 5 & 4 | Ryan Harrison & James Johnson | |
| 2018 | Cancelled due to snow | |||
| 2019 | Linn Grant & Maja Stark | 2 up | Joe Sullivan & Louis Hirst | |
| 2020 | Lily May Humphreys & Will Percival | 1 up | Ben Holden & Roger Chapman | |
| 2021 | Cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2022 | Lottie Woad & Rachel Gourley | 6 & 5 | Jimmy Ruth & Paul Hendriksen | |
| 2023 | Cancelled due to snow | |||
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