2020 Amateur Championship: Joe Long wins at Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Joe Long won the 2020 Amateur Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, Merseyside, beating Joe Harvey 4 & 3 in the final.
Updated 23 October 2026
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- Edition
- 125th
- Dates
- 25 August 2020 to 30 August 2020
- Course
- Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, Merseyside
- Format
- stroke-play qualifying (18 holes) + match play
- Champion
- Joe Long · age 23 · England · Lansdown
- Champion's title
- 1st Amateur Championship title
- Runner-up
- Joe Harvey · England
- Final
- 4 & 3 (36-hole final)
- Match-play field
- 68
- Losing semifinalists
- Mark Power and Jake Bolton
- Stroke-play medalist
- Ruben Lindsay (67)
- Defending champion
- James Sugrue · did not play
- What winning earned
- The 149th Open (2021) exemption; U.S. Open exemption; Masters invitation (by tradition)
What happened at the 2020 Amateur Championship
Final: Long holed a 30-40 foot par putt to halve the 14th, and moved four up after Harvey bogeyed the 28th and 29th.
Final: Long closed out a 4 & 3 win on the 33rd hole by holing a 15-foot birdie putt to halve it; the qualifying first round had been abandoned for storms.
Round of 64, Ilari Saulo v Ruben Lindsay, 2 & 1. Stroke-play medalist Ruben Lindsay lost his opening match to Ilari Saulo
The draw
Every match is recorded through the first round.
The final, 2020 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Long | def. | Joe Harvey | 4 & 3 |
Semifinals, 2020 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Harvey | def. | Mark Power | 3 & 2 |
| Joe Long | def. | Jake Bolton | 2 & 1 |
Quarterfinals, 2020 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Harvey | def. | Victor H. Sidal Svendsen | 4 & 3 |
| Mark Power | def. | Callan Barrow | 3 & 1 |
| Joe Long | def. | Barclay Brown | 6 & 5 |
| Jake Bolton | def. | Hamish Wiliam Brown | 2 up |
Round of 16, 2020 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor H. Sidal Svendsen | def. | Callum Farr | 4 & 2 |
| Joe Harvey | def. | Habebul Islam | 5 & 4 |
| Callan Barrow | def. | Loris Schuepbach | 5 & 4 |
| Mark Power | def. | Marc Hammer | 2 & 1 |
| Barclay Brown | def. | Joshua Bristow | 6 & 5 |
| Joe Long | def. | Olly Huggins | 4 & 3 |
| Jake Bolton | def. | Frederik kjettrup | 3 & 2 |
| Hamish Wiliam Brown | def. | Marc Boucher | 1 up |
Round of 32, 2020 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor H. Sidal Svendsen | def. | Ilari Saulo | 5 & 3 |
| Callum Farr | def. | Thomas Plumb | 3 & 2 |
| Habebul Islam | def. | Filippo Celli | 3 & 2 |
| Joe Harvey | def. | Arron Edwards-Hill | 2 & 1 |
| Callan Barrow | def. | Benjamin Schmidt | 4 & 3 |
| Loris Schuepbach | def. | Gregorio De Leo | 3 & 2 |
| Mark Power | def. | Jack Dyer | 2 & 1 |
| Marc Hammer | def. | David Ravetto | 2 & 1 |
| Joshua Bristow | def. | Darren Howie | 3 & 2 |
| Barclay Brown | def. | Tom McKibbin | 4 & 3 |
| Olly Huggins | def. | Robert Foley | 2 & 1 |
| Joe Long | def. | Josh Hill | 1 up |
| Jake Bolton | def. | Connor Wilson | 1 up |
| Frederik kjettrup | def. | Ben Jones | 4 & 3 |
| Marc Boucher | def. | Matty Lamb | 2 & 1 |
| Hamish Wiliam Brown | def. | Mason Essam | 4 & 3 |
Round of 64, 2020 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilari Saulo | def. | Ruben Lindsay | 2 & 1 |
| Victor H. Sidal Svendsen | def. | Ben Chamberlain | 1 up |
| Thomas Plumb | def. | Robert Moran | 4 & 3 |
| Callum Farr | def. | Davide Buchi | 1 up |
| Filippo Celli | def. | Haider Hussain | 2 up |
| Habebul Islam | def. | Christoffer Bring | 4 & 3 |
| Arron Edwards-Hill | def. | James Biggs | 5 & 3 |
| Joe Harvey | def. | Stuart Easton | 1 up |
| Benjamin Schmidt | def. | Brandon Dietzel | 3 & 2 |
| Callan Barrow | def. | Lewis Irvine | 2 & 1 |
| Gregorio De Leo | def. | James Wilson | 3 & 1 |
| Loris Schuepbach | def. | Monty Scowsill | 2 & 1 |
| Jack Dyer | def. | Nicola Gerhardsen | 4 & 2 |
| Mark Power | def. | Jannik de Bruyn | 2 & 1 |
| David Ravetto | def. | Jack Cope | 5 & 4 |
| Marc Hammer | def. | Rasmus Karlsson | 2 & 1 |
| Darren Howie | def. | Harvey Byers | 1 up |
| Joshua Bristow | def. | Riccardo Leo | 3 & 2 |
| Tom McKibbin | def. | Laurenz Schiergen | 2 up |
| Barclay Brown | def. | Rowan Lester | 6 & 4 |
| Olly Huggins | def. | Jan Schneider | 2 & 1 |
| Robert Foley | def. | Joe Macilwraith | 4 & 3 |
| Joe Long | def. | Frederik Birkelund | 3 & 2 |
| Josh Hill | def. | Sam Broadhurst | 1 up |
| Connor Wilson | def. | Kevin Christopher Jegers | 1 up |
| Jake Bolton | def. | Matteo Cristoni | 2 up |
| Ben Jones | def. | Laird Shepherd | 6 & 4 |
| Frederik kjettrup | def. | Andrew Davidson | 1 up |
| Marc Boucher | def. | Enrique Dimayuga | 3 & 2 |
| Matty Lamb | def. | Malthe Tandrup Laustsen | 3 & 2 |
| Hamish Wiliam Brown | def. | Ronan Kleu | 2 up |
| Mason Essam | def. | Matthew McClean | 1 up |
Round of 128, 2020 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilari Saulo | def. | Sam Bairstow | 3 & 1 |
| Matthew McClean | def. | James Cooper | 3 & 1 |
| Josh Hill | def. | Herman Wibe Sekne | won on 19th hole |
| Brandon Dietzel | def. | Sam Done | 3 & 2 |
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's Amateur Championship data set (research collected through 20 October 2026). "unknown" means no source confirmed it; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the R&A's own record is used.
Data: the-amateur.json.