THE Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club has been chosen by the R&A to host next year's British Seniors Open Amateur Championship.

The event will take place between August 6 and 8, 2008 and the club is hoping that the championship will be the first of several major events it is awarded in recognition of efforts to achieve the longer term goal of bringing The Open back to Deal.

The Cinque Ports has twice hosted The Open, in 1909 and 1920, and now club officials want to earn the right time to stage golf's oldest major championship for a third time.

Secretary Ken Hannah said: "We are a natural course for holding championship events, and we are now spending £500,000 a year on bringing it back up to Open Championship standard."

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