JACQUES LEGLISE TROPHY TEAM
BYRNE AND KIRTON ONLY SCOTS NAMED
IN GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND LINE-UP
Banchory's James Byrne and Lewis Kirton (Newmachar), who will have to return from enrolling at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, are the only Scots in the team of nine boys chosen to represent Great Britain & Ireland in the annual under-18 boys international match against the Continent of Europe for the Jacques Leglise Trophy.
This year's match will be played at Marianske Lazne Golf Club in the Czech Republic on September 1 and 2.
There will be disappointment, particularly in the North-east of Scotland, that Fraserburgh's Jordan Findlay, winner of the title in 2004 and beaten finalist in 2005, has not been selected for the third year in a row.
Scottish boys' match-play champion James White (Lundin) and Scottish boys' stroke-play champion Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw) also had strong claims.
Scotland won the boys' home international team championship at Lossiemouth two or three weeks ago and, just before that, were beaten by world champions Norway in the final of the European boys' team championship in Sweden.
There will be no complaints that Matthew Nixon (Ashton-under-Lyne), winner of a terrific 38-hole final of the British boys' championship at Royal Aberdeen GC, has been chosen. He has never been considered good enough to play for England. Now the 17-year-old college student, who has no wish to accept any of the golf scholarship offers coming his way from US coaches, begins his international career at the highest level in Under-18 golf.
Nixon is joined in the team by English players Luke Goddard and Sam Hutsby. Hutsby, 17, started the year in fine form by winning the Spanish Amateur Championship with a 7&6 defeat of Eduardo Molinari, the 2005 US Amateur Champion.
Since then he finished runner-up in the McEvoy Trophy and represented England boys both in Japan and Sweden.
Goddard, an 18-year-old from Middlesex, gained promotion to international recognition for England thanks to his wins in the Bernard Darwin Salver and the Peter McEvoy Trophy.
Adam Runcie from Abergele was in the Welsh squad at Lossiemouth as was Rhys Enoch, who has also been promoted to play in the men's Home Internationals at Pyle & Kenfig in September.
This year, Enoch finished in third place of the Welsh Order of Merit, largely due to his win in the Trubshaw Cup and his fifth place in the Duncan Putter.
The GB&I boys' team is completed with Niall Kearney of Royal Dublin, named team captain, and Paul Cutler of Portstewart both of whom were members of the Ireland team at Lossiemouth where they narrowly lost out to Scotland in the quest for The R&A Trophy.
In addition, Kearney has been selected for the Irish men’s team to compete at Pyle & Kenfig while Cutler has been named a reserve.
TEAM
James Byrne, Banchory
Paul Cutler, Portstewart
Rhys Enoch, Truro
Luke Goddard, Hendon
Sam Hutsby, Lee-on-the-Solent
Lewis Kirton, Newmachar
Niall Kearney (captain), Royal Dublin
Matthew Nixon, Ashton-under-Lyne
Adam Runcie, Abergele
IN GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND LINE-UP
Banchory's James Byrne and Lewis Kirton (Newmachar), who will have to return from enrolling at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, are the only Scots in the team of nine boys chosen to represent Great Britain & Ireland in the annual under-18 boys international match against the Continent of Europe for the Jacques Leglise Trophy.
This year's match will be played at Marianske Lazne Golf Club in the Czech Republic on September 1 and 2.
There will be disappointment, particularly in the North-east of Scotland, that Fraserburgh's Jordan Findlay, winner of the title in 2004 and beaten finalist in 2005, has not been selected for the third year in a row.
Scottish boys' match-play champion James White (Lundin) and Scottish boys' stroke-play champion Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw) also had strong claims.
Scotland won the boys' home international team championship at Lossiemouth two or three weeks ago and, just before that, were beaten by world champions Norway in the final of the European boys' team championship in Sweden.
There will be no complaints that Matthew Nixon (Ashton-under-Lyne), winner of a terrific 38-hole final of the British boys' championship at Royal Aberdeen GC, has been chosen. He has never been considered good enough to play for England. Now the 17-year-old college student, who has no wish to accept any of the golf scholarship offers coming his way from US coaches, begins his international career at the highest level in Under-18 golf.
Nixon is joined in the team by English players Luke Goddard and Sam Hutsby. Hutsby, 17, started the year in fine form by winning the Spanish Amateur Championship with a 7&6 defeat of Eduardo Molinari, the 2005 US Amateur Champion.
Since then he finished runner-up in the McEvoy Trophy and represented England boys both in Japan and Sweden.
Goddard, an 18-year-old from Middlesex, gained promotion to international recognition for England thanks to his wins in the Bernard Darwin Salver and the Peter McEvoy Trophy.
Adam Runcie from Abergele was in the Welsh squad at Lossiemouth as was Rhys Enoch, who has also been promoted to play in the men's Home Internationals at Pyle & Kenfig in September.
This year, Enoch finished in third place of the Welsh Order of Merit, largely due to his win in the Trubshaw Cup and his fifth place in the Duncan Putter.
The GB&I boys' team is completed with Niall Kearney of Royal Dublin, named team captain, and Paul Cutler of Portstewart both of whom were members of the Ireland team at Lossiemouth where they narrowly lost out to Scotland in the quest for The R&A Trophy.
In addition, Kearney has been selected for the Irish men’s team to compete at Pyle & Kenfig while Cutler has been named a reserve.
TEAM
James Byrne, Banchory
Paul Cutler, Portstewart
Rhys Enoch, Truro
Luke Goddard, Hendon
Sam Hutsby, Lee-on-the-Solent
Lewis Kirton, Newmachar
Niall Kearney (captain), Royal Dublin
Matthew Nixon, Ashton-under-Lyne
Adam Runcie, Abergele
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