Player Profile · Senior Amateur Golf
Somewhere on the back nine of Frilford Heath's Red Course on Friday, the 2026 Senior Amateur Championship stopped being a competition and became a coronation. Bryan Hoops, the 57-year-old from Tempe, Arizona, birdied his way around Oxfordshire in a final-round 66 — seven birdies against a single blemish — to finish at 10-under 278 and win The R&A's national championship by six shots over England's John Kemp and Australia's Richard Heath.Member-only — 18 more paragraphs
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