SEVEN NEW CAPS IN ENGLAND TEAM FOR
HOME INTERNATIONALS AT CO LOUTH

Daniel Willett, newly crowned English champion from Rotherham Golf Club, is one of seven new caps in the England squad for the Home Internationals at County Louth Golf Club, Ireland from September 19 to 21.
The other newcomers are Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale), Ben Evans (Rye), Charlie Ford (Kirby Muxloe), Sam Hutsby (Liphook), Dale Whitnell (Five Lakes) and Chris Wood (Long Ashton).
Also in the team are Gary Boyd (Cherwell Edge), Matthew Cryer (Coventry), Ben Parker (Royal Birkdale) and Gary Wolstenholme (Kilworth Springs).
Willett, 19, who has also been selected for the Walker Cup, won the English championship earlier this month by beating Cryer 3 and 2 in the 36-hole final at Royal St George’s in Kent.
He is the in-form player, having followed up two wins at college in the United States with the Yorkshire championship, a ten-shot win in the South of England Championship at Walton Heath and the English crown.
Willett attends college at Jacksonville State University, Alabama.
Baldwin, 21, earns his cap after seven years on the England scene at under 16 and boys levels. A former winner of the McGregor Trophy, he was England Boy Captain in 2004 and third in the Carris Trophy that year.
Last year, he won the Formby Hare, finished third in the Scottish Open Stroke Play and the Danish Open Amateur and in 2007 reached the semi-finals of the Portuguese Amateur before winning the Lancashire Championship.
Evans, 20, is another with a long pedigree with England dating back to 2001. Also capped at under 16 and boys levels, he won the Sunningdale Foursomes with Danielle Masters last year and he finished third in the Riverswood Junior Open in Holland and in the South of England Stroke Play.
This year, the Rye golfer reached the quarter finals of the Spanish Amateur, was runner-up in the recent South of England Stroke Play, and has had top-ten finishes in the Berkhamsted and Berkshire Trophies and in the Welsh Open Stroke Play.
Ford is another US college student, attending the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He had three top-ten finishes in the past collegiate season and was ranked 42nd in the US. He was also named in the Division One all-Region team for the South East US by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
At home this year, the Leicestershire 22 year old topped the individual rankings in the Midland qualifier at Coventry, finished third in the Midland Open Amateur at Northampton, finished fourth in the Tillman Trophy and seventh in the St Andrews Links Trophy.
Hutsby, 18, last year’s England Boy Captain, has also been capped at under 16 and boys levels. A year ago the Hampshire youngster pulled off a sensational victory in the Spanish Amateur, beating the then US Amateur Champion Edoardo Molinari. In 2006 he also won the Duke of York Young Champions tournament at Dundonald Links and was third in the Daily Telegraph Junior Championship.
This year he has won the George Henriques Trophy for the best score by a GB&I player aged under 20 when he finished joint fourth in the Brabazon Trophy and recently won the St Mellion International and the Stoneham Trophy.
Whitnell, 19, has blossomed over the past two years. Highly successful in Essex with victory in the Under 16 Championship in 2004 and a double of the county title and boys championship last year, he finished second in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters in 2006 after which he was capped for the European Boys Team Championships and Boys Home Internationals.
Third in the Carris Trophy last year, he won the Daily Telegraph Junior Championship in Dubai and this year has a string of high finishes including victory in the North of England Youths, runner-up in the French Open Stroke Play and the Tillman Trophy and third in the Russian Amateur.
Wood, 19, has also shone over the last two years. Victories in his native Gloucestershire and in the South West at junior level have been followed by the Gloucestershire Championship last year and a runner-up spot in 2007.
Further afield, Wood finished fifth in the South of England Stroke Play last year and was a quarter-finalist in the Italian Amateur. In 2007 he has already won the West of England Stroke Play and the Russian Amateur, finished runner-up in the South West Championship and the Tillman Trophy and reached the quarter finals of the Amateur Championship.
Boyd, 20, winner of the inaugural Asia-Pacific Open Amateur in China last December, made his full England debut in last year’s Home Internationals in Wales as did 20 year old Parker, winner of the German Amateur last weekend.
Cryer, 32, earned his first full cap in the 2005 Home Internationals, while Wolstenholme, who will be 47 on August 21, has been selected for every Home Internationals since 1988.
Regular caps David Horsey, Jamie Moul, and John Parry were not considered as they are playing in the Walker Cup and attending the European Tour Qualifying School, while Paul Waring has turned professional.
Scotland are the defending champions while England last won the Home Internationals at Prestwick in 2004.

The full England team is:

Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale).
Gary Boyd (Cherwell Edge).
Matthew Cryer (Coventry).
Ben Evans (Rye).
Charlie Ford (Kirby Muxloe).
Sam Hutsby (Liphook).
Ben Parker (Royal Birkdale).
Dale Whitnell (Five Lakes).
Daniel Willett (Rotherham).
Gary Wolstenholme (Kilworth Springs).
Chris Wood (Long Ashton).