England name team for European
boys' championship

PRESS RELEASED ISSUED BY ENGLISH GOLF UNION.
England have named two new caps, Stiggy Hodgson and Tom Lewis, in its team for the European boys' team championships at Bled Golf Club, Slovenia from July 8 to 12.
The rest of the team will be: Tommy Fleetwood, Gary King, Eddie Pepperell and Darren Renwick as England seek to regain the title they last held four years ago.
Hodgson, 17, from Surrey, is enjoying a highly successful season with three victories and two runners-up spots so far. He won the McEvoy Trophy in a play-off with Pepperell, the Selborne Salver and the Hampshire Salver and finished second in the Berkhamsted Trophy and the Surrey Under 18 Championship.
He was capped at under 16 level in 2006, helped Surrey win the Boys County Championship last year and, like the rest of the team, is a member of the England Under 18 Squad.
Lewis, 17, from Hertfordshire, is another under-16 cap who has been equally successful over the past few years. Third in the Reid Trophy (English Under 14 Championship) in 2005, he won the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters last year, finished joint second in the McGregor Trophy (English Under 16 Championship) and was joint winner of the North of England under 16 title. He was also a semi-finalist in the Hertfordshire Championship while this year Lewis has finished second in the Fairhaven Trophy and was recently joint winner of the George Henriques Salver for the leading under 20s after finishing tied third in the Brabazon Trophy.
Fleetwood, 17, has been capped at under 16 level for the past three years and made his debut at boys level in last year’s European Boys Team Championships in Denmark. He scored six points out of six to help England win the Boys Home Internationals and also represented GB&I against Europe in the Jacques Leglise Trophy.
The Lancastrian also won the Southport & Ainsdale Bowl, finished runner-up in the Lancashire Championship and third in the North of England Under 16 Championship. He was also a member of the four-man England team that won the Honda International Junior Championship in Japan while this year he finished tied sixth in the Portuguese Amateur.
King, who will celebrate his 18th birthday this month prior to the championships, is another member of Surrey’s victorious 2007 Boys County Championship team and has also been capped at under 16 and boys levels. A former Surrey Under 14 Champion, he also enjoyed a successful 2007, finishing equal first in the South East Boys qualifying and runner-up to Lewis for the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters.
He also reached the quarter finals of the British Boys Championship and was another member of the team that won the Honda International Junior Championship. This year, King has also tasted success, winning the Surrey under 18 title and the Hampshire Hog and finishing third in the McEvoy Trophy. Since he won the English Under 14 title in 2005, Pepperell, 17, from Oxfordshire, has found victories just out of his grasp. He was runner-up in the 2006 Under 16 Championship while last year he lost a playoff for the Hampshire Hog, had two third places and reached the semi-finals of the British Boys.
This year, he has lost to Hodgson in the McEvoy Trophy, finished runner-up in the Bernard Darwin Salver, has had third places in the Berkhamsted Trophy and West of England Stroke Play and was a semi-finalist in the Spanish Amateur.
Pepperell has represented England at under 16 level before making his boys debut in the 2006 Boys Home Internationals. Like Fleetwood, he played in last year’s European Boys Team Championships and was capped by GB&I in the Jacques Leglise Trophy. He was also a member of the winning Honda Junior team. Renwick, 18, from Sussex, was an under 16 cap for three years before stepping up to boys level in last year‘s Boys Home Internationals.
A former winner of the Douglas Johns Trophy and the Scottish Under 16 Championship, he finished tied sixth last year in both the McEvoy Trophy and the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and has represented the EGU in America and South Africa. This year, he finished tied third in the Hampshire Hog. England have been European Boys Champions on eight occasions, in 1981, ‘85, ‘86, ‘89, ‘94, ‘95, ‘99, and 2004. Last year they finished runners-up to hosts Denmark. The complete England team is:
Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall), Stiggy Hodgson (Sunningdale), Gary King (Tyrrells Wood), Tom Lewis (Welwyn Garden City), Eddie Pepperell (Drayton Park), and Darren Renwick (Worthing).