15 Facts To Know About Amateur Golfer Charlie Forster

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published 7 September 2025

English amateur Charlie Forster has grown up in the same area and won some of the same trophies as Justin Rose.

Find out more about the talented amateur who hopes to follow in the US Open and Olympic champion's footsteps in the professional game one day.

Charlie Forster facts

1. Charlie Forster was born on March 24, 2003 in Winchester, England.

2. His parents are called Lance and Nikki Forster.

3. He went to high school at Peter Symonds College in Hampshire where he played soccer and did track and field as well as golf.

4. A talented junior, Forster won the County Championships and Hampshire School Championships in the same year, which he says is one of his best memories in golf as Justin Rose also won both trophies.

5. In 2021 he left to go to America and study marketing at Southeastern Louisianna University as well as playing golf.

6. Forster switched to Long Beach State in 2023 to play golf on the West Coast as well as studying consumer affairs.

7. Charlie was selected as a First Team All-Big West selection in his first season at Long Beach State.

8. He played in the Amateur Championship twice in 2024 and 2025 - going further in 2024 when he reached the last 16 by beating Jose Luis Ballester, who has since turned por and joined LIV Golf.

9. He became just the second Hampshire player ever to play in the Bonallack Trophy when selected as part of the European team to take on their Asian counterparts.

10. Forster twice played in the prestigious St Andrews Trophy for the Great Britain & Ireland side against Continental Europe.

A tee marker at the 2025 Walker Cup at Cyprus Point

11. In the 2025 St Andrews Trophy, Forster played both his foursomes matches alongside Ian Poulter's son Luke - winning 1.5 points.

12. In July 2025, Forster was named as an ambassador for Basingstoke Golf Club.

13. Forster also represented England at the 2025 European Amateur Team Championship, finishing T4 after the strokeplay rounds before helping his country to the semis in matchplay.

14.His first college titles came in 2025 when he won twice, at the Lake Las Vegas Invitational and Wyoming Cowboy Classic.

15.. In August 2025 he was named to the Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team to face America at Cyprus Point.

Charlie Forster bio

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Date of birth	March 24, 2003
Home town	Winchester, England
College	Long Beach State

Charlie Forster wins

Wyoming Cowboy Classic, 2025
Lake Las Vegas Invitational, 2025

Paul Higham is a sports journalist with over 20 years of experience in covering most major sporting events for both Sky Sports and BBC Sport. He is currently freelance and covers the golf majors on the BBC Sport website. Highlights over the years include covering that epic Monday finish in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor and watching Rory McIlroy produce one of the most dominant Major wins at the 2011 US Open at Congressional. He also writes betting previews and still feels strangely proud of backing Danny Willett when he won the Masters in 2016 - Willett also praised his putting stroke during a media event before the Open at Hoylake. Favourite interviews he's conducted have been with McIlroy, Paul McGinley, Thomas Bjorn, Rickie Fowler and the enigma that is Victor Dubuisson. A big fan of watching any golf from any tour, sadly he spends more time writing about golf than playing these days with two young children, and as a big fair weather golfer claims playing in shorts is worth at least five shots. Being from Liverpool he loves the likes of Hoylake, Birkdale and the stretch of tracks along England's Golf Coast, but would say his favourite courses played are Kingsbarns and Portrush.

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