Adam and Oscar England's pair

for European Young Masters

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH GOLF UNION
The Gloucestershire pair of Adam Carson and Oscar Sharpe, the English boys' under 16 champions over the past two years, will represent the English Golf Union in the annual 54-hole European Young Masters tournament at Chantilly Golf Club, France, from July 24 to 26.
Carson, who will defend the English boys' under-16 championship next week at High Post in Wiltshire, won the McGregor Trophy a year ago at Southport & Ainsdale when he finished five strokes ahead of the field after the championship had been cut to 54 holes because of high winds and driving rain.
The 16-year-old Long Ashton player has enjoyed a successful run in the past 12 months, finishing runner-up in the Douglas Johns Trophy and the South West boys' championship last year.
He was also capped at under-16 level against Scotland. This year, Carson has won the Gloucestershire junior championship, finished runner-up in the Gloucestershire under-16 championship, fourth in the Fairhaven Trophy and fifth in the Gloucestershire county championship.
Sharpe, 15, had an amazing 2006 when aged just 13. That year he won the English under-16 title, the under-14 championship for the Reid Trophy and the under-15 title, the Douglas Johns Trophy, and made his international debut in the under-16 match with Scotland.
Last year, he represented England in the European boys' team championships in Denmark and the boys' home internationals before crossing the Atlantic to study at an American college where he won several events.
Sharpe flew the flag for the English Golf Union in last year’s European Young Masters in France, finishing fourth.
The European Young Masters includes a girls' competition with a Nations Cup covering both, three of the four cards each day to count.