Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

Template:Short description Template:Short description The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is a golf tournament on the European Tour. It is played in September or October, on three different links courses, centered on the "home of golf", St Andrews in Fife, Scotland.

Format and history

The tournament is a pro-am, with the format based on the long-running United States PGA Tour's AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am held annually since 1937 (except during the Second World War), where each team consists of one amateur and one professional. The three course rotation consists of The Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie Golf Links and Kingsbarns Golf Links.

The 54-hole cut is made of the top 60 professionals and the leading 20 pro-am teams, regardless of the professional member of the team making the individual cut. These players and teams advance to the final round at St Andrews.

Originally called the Dunhill Links Championship, the event was introduced in 2001 as a replacement for the Alfred Dunhill Cup, a three-man team tournament which had become marginalised when the long established World Cup of Golf was given enhanced status as part of the World Golf Championships in 2000, becoming the WGC-World Cup.

To increase interest in the event, many of the amateurs are well known personalities from the worlds of sport and entertainment. These have included Tico Torres, Nigel Mansell, Ian Botham, Gary Lineker, Boris Becker, Michael Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Vaughan, Matthew Pinsent, Hugh Grant, Justin Timberlake, Michael Phelps, Bill Murray, Shane Warne and Andy Murray.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
2025	Template:Flagicon Robert MacIntyre	198Template:Efn	−18	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Tyrrell Hatton
2024	Template:Flagicon Tyrrell Hatton (3)	264	−24	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Nicolas Colsaerts
2023	Template:Flagicon Matt Fitzpatrick	197Template:Efn	−19	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon Marcus Armitage Template:Flagicon Ryan Fox Template:Flagicon Matthew Southgate
2022	Template:Flagicon Ryan Fox	273	−15	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Alex Norén Template:Flagicon Callum Shinkwin
2021	Template:Flagicon Danny Willett	270	−18	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Tyrrell Hatton Template:Flagicon Joakim Lagergren
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019	Template:Flagicon Victor Perez	266	−22	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Matthew Southgate
2018	Template:Flagicon Lucas Bjerregaard	273	−15	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Tommy Fleetwood Template:Flagicon Tyrrell Hatton
2017	Template:Flagicon Tyrrell Hatton (2)	264	−24	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon Ross Fisher
2016	Template:Flagicon Tyrrell Hatton	265	−23	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Ross Fisher Template:Flagicon Richard Sterne
2015	Template:Flagicon Thorbjørn Olesen	270	−18	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Brooks Koepka Template:Flagicon Chris Stroud
2014	Template:Flagicon Oliver Wilson	271	−17	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Tommy Fleetwood Template:Flagicon Rory McIlroy Template:Flagicon Richie Ramsay
2013	Template:Flagicon David Howell	265	−23	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Peter Uihlein
2012	Template:Flagicon Branden Grace	266	−22	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Thorbjørn Olesen
2011	Template:Flagicon Michael Hoey	266	−22	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Rory McIlroy
2010	Template:Flagicon Martin Kaymer	271	−17	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon Danny Willett
2009	Template:Flagicon Simon Dyson	268	−20	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon Rory McIlroy Template:Flagicon Oliver Wilson
2008	Template:Flagicon Robert Karlsson	278	−10	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Ross Fisher Template:Flagicon Martin Kaymer
2007	Template:Flagicon Nick Dougherty	270	−18	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Justin Rose
2006	Template:Flagicon Pádraig Harrington (2)	271	−17	5 strokes	Template:Flagicon Bradley Dredge Template:Flagicon Edward Loar Template:Flagicon Anthony Wall
Dunhill Links Championship
2005	Template:Flagicon Colin Montgomerie	279	−9	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Kenneth Ferrie
2004	Template:Flagicon Stephen Gallacher	269	−19	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Graeme McDowell
2003	Template:Flagicon Lee Westwood	267	−21	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Ernie Els
2002	Template:Flagicon Pádraig Harrington	269	−19	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Eduardo Romero
2001	Template:Flagicon Paul Lawrie	270	−18	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Ernie Els

External links

• Official site
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site