Peruvian trip for Hinton and Martin

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH GOLF UNION
Craig Hinton (The Oxfordshire - Berks, Bucks & Oxon) and Ben Martin (Worthing, Sussex), members of the England ‘A’ Squad, have been selected to represent the EGU in the 21st Peruvian Amateur International Tournament at Lima Golf Club from April 15 to 18.
It will be their first overseas assignment under EGU colours and they will compete for the Manuel Prado Cup (team event) and the Carlos Raffo Cup (individual).
Hinton, 20, is an all-round sportsman having represented Oxfordshire at junior level in hockey, athletics, cricket and football, including a trial for Wycombe Wanderers at 14. Now concentrating solely on golf, he had a brief spell at college in Kentucky and last year had good finishes in the Tillman Trophy and St Andrews Links Trophy.
Sussex-based Martin, 18, is perhaps more well-known in the Caribbean where his family lived and where he met with considerable success. He has recently won the Trinidad & Tobago Amateur Championship for a record fourth time. He also won the Caribbean Junior Championship in 2007 in Antigua.
Back in Britain, last year Martin won the Sussex Open and the Worthing match-play championship and finished third in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and the Sussex Colts Championship.
The format for the Peruvian Amateur is 72 holes of stroke play, both players’ scores to count over all four rounds for the team event. English players have enjoyed successes in the Peruvian event.
In 2005, on the first occasion the EGU sent players to Lima, Neil Chaudhuri from Leicestershire shared the individual title with Mario Maya of Venezuela after the pair played three holes of a sudden death playoff and then ran out of daylight.
In 2006, James Morrison from Surrey and Yorkshire’s John Parry finished second in the team event while Morrison was runner-up in the individual prize. Two years ago, on the last occasion English players competed, Jamie Abbott and James Smith finished fourth in the team competition.