The Lytham Trophy is an amateur golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 tournament founded in 1965 by the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, is one of the courses in the Open Championship rotation. The Women's British Open has also been played on the course four times: once prior to being designated a major championship by the LPGA Tour, and three times since.The...

, where it has always been held. It is a 72-hole scratch stroke play

Stroke play

Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf. It involves counting the total number of strokes taken on each hole during a given round, or series of rounds...

 competition, and is classified as a Category A event by the World Amateur Golf Ranking

World Amateur Golf Ranking

The World Amateur Golf Ranking for men was introduced by the R&A, the governing body of amateur golf outside the United States and Mexico, on 23 January 2007. It is based on the results of over 750 amateur tournaments and is updated weekly. Rankings are based on the players' average performances in...

s.

In 2004 James Heath

James Heath (golfer)

James Joseph Heath is an English professional golfer.Heath was born in London. He started playing golf with his father at the age of ten. Having played in the Faldo Junior Series, he went on to a successful amateur career, highlighted by winning the English Amateur and Lytham Trophy, where he...

 set a new tournament record with an 18 under par total of 266, winning by eight strokes over Ross Fisher

Ross Fisher

Ross Daniel Fisher is an English professional golfer, who plays on the European Tour.Fisher was born in Ascot, Berkshire. His home course is the famous Wentworth Golf Club, Surrey, England, location of the European Tour administrative headquarters. As a child, he attended Charters School, a state...

. His total was five strokes better than the 271 posted by Tom Lehman

Tom Lehman

Thomas Edward Lehman is an American professional golfer.Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota, but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a degree in Business/Accounting and turned professional in 1982. It took...

 when he won The Open Championship

The Open Championship

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 in 1996, and is believed to be a record four round total over the course.

Winners

Year	Winner	Country	Score
2011	Jack Senior		299
2010	Paul Cutler		284
2009	James Robinson		287
2008	Matt Haines Matt Haines Matthew Haines is an English professional golfer.Haines turned professional in May 2010 after a successful amateur career, during which he became the yourngest ever winner of the Lytham Trophy and represented Great Britain and Ireland in the 2009 Walker Cup...		284
2007	Lloyd Saltman Lloyd Saltman Lloyd Saltman is a Scottish professional golfer.Saltman was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the grandson of former Hibernian goalkeeper Tommy Younger...		279
2006	Jamie Moul Jamie Moul Jamie Moul is an English professional golfer who became the third man to top the World Amateur Golf Ranking on 13 February 2007.Moul plays out of Stoke-by-Nayland Golf Club near Colchester in Essex...		279
2005	Gary Lockerbie Gary Lockerbie Gary Lockerbie is an English professional golfer.Lockerbie was born in Penrith, Cumbria. He had a successful amateur career, including wins in the English Amateur and the Lytham Trophy, before turning professional after representing Great Britain and Ireland in the 2005 Walker Cup.In his first...		276
2004	James Heath James Heath (golfer) James Joseph Heath is an English professional golfer.Heath was born in London. He started playing golf with his father at the age of ten. Having played in the Faldo Junior Series, he went on to a successful amateur career, highlighted by winning the English Amateur and Lytham Trophy, where he...		266
2003	Stuart Wilson		283
2002	Lee Corfield		283
2001	Richard McEvoy Richard McEvoy Richard McEvoy is an English professional golfer.McEvoy was born in Shoeburyness, Essex. His amateur wins included the 2001 Lytham Trophy, and the 2001 Irish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship...		276
2000	David Dixon David Dixon (golfer) David Dixon is an English professional golfer.Dixon was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, England. He turned professional in 2001....		285
1999	Tino Schuster		283
1998	Lorne Kelly		288
1997	Graham Rankin		279
1996	Matt Carver		284
1995	Stephen Gallacher Stephen Gallacher Stephen James Gallacher is a Scottish professional golfer.Gallacher was born in Dechmont, West Lothian and is the nephew of former European Ryder Cup Captain Bernard Gallacher. He played in a victorious Walker Cup side in 1995 and turned professional later that year.Gallacher first played on the...		281
1994	Warren Bennett Warren Bennett Warren Bennett is an English professional golfer.Bennett was born in Ashford, Surrey and is the son of former footballer Peter Bennett. In 1994, he won the Australian Amateur and was the leading amateur at The Open Championship...		285
1993	Tony McLure		292
1992	Stuart Cage Stuart Cage Stuart Cage is an English professional golfer.Cage won the English Amateur in 1992 and played for Great Britain & Ireland in the 1993 Walker Cup. He turned professional in 1993 and having finished 8th on the second tier Challenge Tour Rankings the following year, was a rookie on the European Tour...		294
1991	Gary Evans		284
1990	Gary Evans		291
1989	Neil Williamson		286
1988	Paul Broadhurst Paul Broadhurst Paul Andrew Broadhurst is an English golfer, originally from Atherstone in Warwickshire.Broadhurst was the leading amateur at the 1988 Open Championship. He joined the European Tour in 1989, picked up his first win at the Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open that year, and was the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie...		291
1987	David Wood		293
1986	Steve McKenna		297
1985	Michael Walls		291
1984	John Hawksworth John Hawksworth (golfer) John F. Hawksworth is a retired professional golfer who played on the European Tour between 1986 and 2000.Hawksworth had a successful amateur career during which he won the Lytham Trophy in 1984. He was a member of the Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team in 1985 alongside Colin Montgomerie...		289
1983	Stephen McAllister Stephen McAllister Stephen McAllister is a Scottish professional golfer.McAllister was born in Paisley. He won the Lytham Trophy in 1983 and turned professional later that year. He first played on the European Tour in 1987...		299
1982	Martin Sludds		306
1981	Roger Chapman Roger Chapman (golfer) Roger M. Chapman is an English professional golfer.Chapman was born in Nakuru, Kenya. He won the English Amateur in 1979 and represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 1981 Walker Cup, beating Hal Sutton twice in one day....		221Tournament reduced to 54 holes.
1980	Ian Hutcheon		293
1979	Peter McEvoy Peter McEvoy Peter McEvoy OBE was a leading British amateur golfer for many years, and is now a golf course designer, golf administrator, and golf writer....		279Tournament reduced to 68 holes.
1978	Brian Marchbank		288
1977	Peter Deeble		296
1976	Michael Kelley		292
1975	George MacGregor		299
1974	Charlie Green		291
1973	Geoff Birtwell Michael King Michael King (golfer) Michael G. King is an English professional golfer.King was born in Reading, Berkshire. As an amateur, he won the Lytham Trophy in 1973, and played in the Walker Cup in 1969 and 1973....		292 (tie)
1972	Michael Bonallack Michael Bonallack Sir Michael Francis Bonallack, OBE is an English amateur golfer who was one of the leading administrators in world golf in the late 20th century.Bonallack was born in Chigwell, Essex. He won the British Boys Championship in 1952...		281
1971	Warren Humphreys Warren Humphreys Warren Humphreys is an English professional golfer.Humphreys was born in Kingston. He had a successful amateur career, winning the 1971 English Amateur and playing on that year's winning Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team...		292
1970	Geoffrey Marks Geoff Birtwell Jim Farmer Charlie Green		296 (tie)
1969	Thomas Craddock		290
1968	Rodney Foster		286
1967	Rodney Foster		296
1966	Peter Townsend Peter Townsend (golfer) Peter Michael Paul Townsend is an English professional golfer.Townsend was born in Cambridge. Following a successful amateur career, during which he won both the Brabazon Trophy and Lytham Trophy, he turned professional at the end of 1966...		290
1965	Michael Bonallack Michael Bonallack Sir Michael Francis Bonallack, OBE is an English amateur golfer who was one of the leading administrators in world golf in the late 20th century.Bonallack was born in Chigwell, Essex. He won the British Boys Championship in 1952... Clive Clark		295 (tie)

External links

• Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club – official site