England boys are top seeds for match-play

stages, Scotland (15th) in Second Flight

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England have won the stroke play section of the European boys team championship at Golf Club de Pan near Utrecht and qualify as the top seeds for the match-play stages. England’s first challenge will be Germany whom they will face in the quarter-final line-up.
The second day of stroke play saw a great team performance from England in tough conditions. Play got off to a wet start and although it looked as though play may have to be suspended, all players made it through without any interruptions.
Max Smith was out on the course first, dropping three shots in 16 holes and finishing off with two birdies. He ended his round on 72, a solid score to start England off.
Jonathan Bell, Eddie Pepperell and Chris Lloyd, who eagled the last, all finished with level par 71s.
Jonathan Bell, England’s leading player in the stroke play, said, “I was lucky as I didn’t get a lot of the rain but it was very windy out there. I think we all played really well as a team and I’m very excited about match play tomorrow”.
Although Jonathan finished in the lead, he felt there was still room for improvement “I haven’t really played the par 5s too well but hopefully I can do better over the next few days”.
Day one of the stroke play was interrupted for nearly two hours by thunder and lightning, but England went on to hold a one stroke lead over Sweden. Max Smith, Tom Lewis and Jonathan Bell all carded one under par 70’s.
In particular Max Smith made his score in very windy conditions being in the first group out at 7.30 am. Tom Lewis had somewhat of an up and down round. His 70 included seven birdies, four bogeys and a double bogey. Jonathan Bell’s 70 was set up with a magnificent three wood at the par five eighteenth and a fine chip and a putt gave Jonathan a well deserved place on the leaderboard.
To follow the progress of our England players as they contest The European Boys Championship please visit the EGU website www.englishgolfunion.org.

England scores:
143 Tom Lewis (Welwyn Garden City) 70 73.
141 Jonathan Bell (Royal Blackheath) 70 71.
142 Max Smith (Newbury Racecourse) 70 72.
144 Eddie Pepperell (Drayton Park) 73 71.
148 Adam Carson (Long Ashton) 73 75.
146 Chris Lloyd (The Kendleshire) 75 71.
Championship matchplay flight
1 England +4
2 Denmark +8
3 Sweden +15
4 Belgium +21
5 Spain +24
6 Netherlands +26
7 Czech Republic +26
8 Germany +27

SECOND FLIGHT
9 FRANCE 738
10 ITALY 739
11 PORTUGAL 740
12 IRELAND 740
13 NORWAY 742
14 SWITZERLAND 743
15 SCOTLAND 747
16 FINLAND 756

THIRD FLIGHT
17 WALES 760
18 POLAND 783
19 HUNGARY 789
20 SLOVENIA 789

Scotland boys' scores over the two rounds.
146 Sandy Bolton 74 72.
147 Paul Shields 72 75.
149 David Law 74 75.
152 Chris Robb 73 79.
155 Jack McDonald 76 79.
158 Daniel Young 81 77.