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GB&I TEAM FOR JACQUES LEGLISE TROPHY

Fraser Fotheringham, a Scottish boy international, has been rewarded for reaching the final of the Boys Amateur Championship by being selected for the GB&I team to play the Continent of Europe in the Jacques Leglise Trophy at Notts Golf Club on 31 August and 1 September.
Fotheringham, 18, from Nairn who had reached the final contrary to his own expectations came up against an in-form 16-year-old Emilio Cuartero of Spain and was unlucky to lose by 1 hole.
Other Scots in the nine-man line-up are Banchory’s James Byrne, the runner-up in the Scottish Stroke Play at Dornoch and who made his full international debut in the European Team Championships, and Michael Stewart of Troon Welbeck.
England are represented by five of their six-man team that finished runner-up to Denmark in the European Boys Team Championship.
Carris Trophy winner Matthew Haines scored 4½ points out of a possible six in the Boys Home Internationals while 16-year-old Tommy Fleetwood, in his international debut won all six of his matches. The other three English players are Jack Hiluta, the captain, Andrew Johnston and Eddie Pepperell.
IRISH REPRESENTATIVE
Paul Cutler who has recently been selected for the Irish men’s team, is rewarded with a place in the side after a strong performance in the Boys Internationals in which he won 5 points from a possible six. Earlier in the year he had lost in the final of the West of Ireland after defeating Rory McIlroy in the last eight.
Jeff Toye, Chairman of The R&A Boys Selection Committee said: “We are still smarting from last year’s defeat but believe that we have selected a team that is particularly strong in match play and is more than capable of regaining the Trophy.”
“The players have performed well throughout the season, not only in junior events, but more importantly in many cases on the highly competitive mens’ amateur circuit.”
“This is not only a team that will try hard, but, I believe, a team of winners.”
Until recently, GB&I had assumed almost automatic possession of the trophy but last year’s 19½ - 4½ win for the Continental boys at Marianske Lazne confirmed that their success 12 months earlier at Royal Porthcawl was anything but a fluke.
RAILWAY CONNECTION
Notts Golf Club, like many clubs formed in the early part of the last century, owes much to the expansion of the railways. Shortly after the present course opened in 1901, the Great Central Railway built a station at Hollinwell and, for the next 40 years, the railway provided a convenient mode of transport for both members and visitors.
Since then, Notts has hosted countless championships and major tournaments and has the reputation of being one of the most testing, yet fair, inland courses in the British Isles.

TEAM
James Byrne, Banchory
Paul Cutler, Portstewart
Tommy Fleetwood, Formby Hall
Fraser Fotheringham, Nairn
Matthew Haines, Rochester & Cobham
Jack Hiluta (Captain), Chelmsford
Andrew Johnston, North Middlesex
Eddie Pepperell, Drayton Park
Michael Stewart, Troon Welbeck