English Golf Union Press Release

SAM SMALE ONLY NEW CAP IN ENGLAND
TEAM FOR SENIOR MEN'S HOME
INTERNATIONALS NEXT WEEK

Sam Smale (Royal St George’s) is the only new cap in the England team for the Seniors Home Internationals being played at Caldy, Cheshire from October 2 to 4.
The rest of the side is that which finished third in the recent European Seniors Championships in Slovenia namely, Douglas Arnold (Copthorne), David Lane (Goring and Streatley), Andrew Morrison (Appleby), Chris Reynolds (Littlestone), Roy Smethurst (Crewe) and Alan Squires (Oldham).
When selected, the team filled the first seven places on the EGU’s Seniors Order of Merit, won this year by Lane. Smale, 61, is a member of the highly successful Kent Squad that has dominated seniors golf in the south east in recent years and which has reached all three Seniors County Finals since its inception in 2005.
A former Club Champion at Eastbourne and Northwood, Smale joined Royal St George’s over a decade ago and in the 2006 Brabazon Bowl carded a 65, the lowest ever round by a member.
Smale is enjoying a successful season. He finished seventh in the English Seniors Championship at Enville and made the cut in the Seniors Open Amateur Championship in Nairn. He is also a long-standing competitor in the Grafton Morrish - he was in the winning team in 1976 - and the Halford Hewitt and he is the keeper of the Hewitt records.
Arnold, who has won three English Seniors Championships, has been an England regular since the Seniors Home Internationals started five years ago as well as the European Seniors Team Championships.
He has also won several Sussex Seniors titles Lane is another multiple seniors champion with one British, two Scottish and three English titles, the most recent in June at Enville, ten years after his first. He has also played for England in every Seniors Home Internationals and European Seniors Team Championships.
Morrison earned a recall to the England team for the European Seniors this year, having played in the 2003 Seniors Home Internationals at Seaton Carew. He finished equal fifth in this year’s English Seniors and is a former Northern Counties Seniors Champion.
Reynolds, another member of the successful Kent Seniors side, made his England debut in last year’s Seniors Home Internationals in Dunbar. He also finished runner-up to Lane in this year’s English Seniors at Enville and fourth in the British Seniors Open Championship at Nairn. Smethurst is another long-serving member of the England team at home and abroad. The Crewe man has an impressive record in seniors golf with one European, one British and four English titles not to mention a host of England caps and other domestic honours.
Squires, from Lancashire, has played in the past three Seniors Home Internationals as well as the past two European Seniors Team Championships, having finished in the top three in the past three English Seniors Championships. England have been Home International champions on three occasions, in the inaugural year 2001, 2002 and 2004. At Caldy, when Scotland will be defending the title, the sides will play each other on a round robin basis, each match consisting of three foursomes and six singles, all over 18 holes.
The full England team is:
Douglas Arnold (Copthorne), David Lane (Goring and Streatley), Andrew Morrison (Appleby), Chris Reynolds (Littlestone), Sam Smale (Royal St George’s), Roy Smethurst (Crewe), Alan Squires (Oldham).