Slumbers: R&A may consider extending Open invite to future LAAC winners
LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic Since their inceptions, the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and the Latin America Amateur Championship have annually extended Masters invites to their champions.And last fall the R&A extended its first Open Championship invite to an APAC winner, giving Japan's Takumi Kanayaa spot in The 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush.On Thursday at the LAAC's annual Founding Partners news conference, R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers was asked if he would consider offering an Open exemption to the LAACchampion."We look very carefully at the exemptions into The Open Championship. We pride The Open on being very broad in terms of its field. We run qualifying events all the around the world, so we are very conscious on how the qualifying works and we are very conscious on the exemptions," Slumberssaid."There is no doubt in any mind that as the field here continues to develop and deepen, and get better and better, that makes it more and more likely that that will become reality in the future. In the Asia Pacific, we did last year. We switched in its ninth year, coming into its 10th year, to offer the exemption of the winner into The Open." 
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Mexico's Ortiz (66) takes first-round lead at LAAC
Mexico's Alvaro Ortiz took the Day 1 lead at the LAAC with a first-round, 6-under 66. It marked the fifth time he's held the end-of-day lead at this event. The field this week at the fifth LAAC includes five of the top 100 players in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, as compared to the 17 top-100 players who teed it up in the 10th edition of the APAC."We have five players in top 100 now and we probably had none in the beginning," Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said. "We saw the same thing in Asia. We've really been using Asia as a template, because you're seeing the same progression here."It was Slumbers who made the announcement that the LAAC would be visiting Mexico for the first time in 2020 and who spoke at length about the R&A's efforts to ensure the game "is thriving 50 years from now."As for that potential Open invite: "I suppose my challenge to the players here is, keep getting the field deeper, keep getting better and make it very hard for us not to give it an exemption," headded.Slumbers: R&A may consider extending Open invite to future LAAC winners Source: The Golf Channel LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — Since their inceptions, the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and the Latin America Amateur Championship have annually extended Masters invites to their champions.
Slumbers: R&A may consider extending Open invite to future
Championship organizers made the announcement today during the 2019 LAAC currently underway at Casa de Campo's Teeth of the Dog in the Dominican Republic. Founded by the Masters Tournament, The R&A and the USGA, the LAAC was established to further develop amateur golf in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
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On Thursday at the LAAC's annual Founding Partners news conference, R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers was asked if he would consider offering an Open exemption to the LAAC champion.
Slumbers: R&A may consider extending Open invite to future
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On Thursday at the LAAC's annual Founding Partners news conference, R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers was asked if he would consider offering an Open exemption to the LAAC champion. "We look very carefully at the exemptions into The Open Championship. We pride The Open on being very broad in terms of its field.
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