England name three for Skandia Junior
Open in Sweden this month

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH GOLF UNION
Stiggy Hodgson, winner of three trophies already this year, plus his Surrey colleague Gary King and Jonathan Bell from Kent have been selected to represent the English Golf Union in the Skandia Junior Open in Sweden at the end of this month.
All three have played in overseas events before but this will be their first involvement in this championship, which also has a girls' competition, and is being played at the Delsjo Golfklubb, near Gothenburg from May 23 to 25.
Hodgson, 17, from the Sunningdale club, is enjoying a superb start to 2008 with victories in the McEvoy Trophy and the Selborne Salver which helped him lift the Hampshire Salver for the best aggregate from the latter and the Hampshire Hog.
He has also finished runner-up in the Berkhamsted Trophy and tied second to King in the Surrey Under-18 Championship, while last year he was equal third in the Berkshire Trophy and helped Surrey win the boys' county championship.
Bell, 16, was English Under-14 champion in 2004. He has twice finished in the top three in the Douglas Johns Trophy and last year he finished sixth in the South-east junior championship and ninth on the Carris Trophy. The Royal Blackheath lad also represented the EGU in the Dutch Junior Masters.
King, 17, who has been capped at Under-16 and boys' levels, was another member of Surrey’s victorious boys' county championship team last year. That success formed part of a triumphant 2007 for the former Surrey Under-14 champion. He finished equal first in the South-east boys' qualifying, runner-up after a play-off for the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and was a quarter-finalist in the British boys' championship.
He was also a member of the England four-man team that won the Honda International Junior Championship in Japan. King has also tasted success this season, winning the Surrey Under-18 title and the Hampshire Hog after a play-off and finishing third in the McEvoy Trophy.
The Skandia Junior Open is a 54-hole tournament with a cut after two rounds, the leading 48 players and ties going on to contest the final round. The Delsjo course, which measures around 6,300 yards with a par of 71, is cut through a forest with narrow fairways and many doglegs. England squad:
Jonathan Bell (Royal Blackheath).
Stiggy Hodgson (Sunningdale).
Gary King (Tyrrells Wood).