Robert Burlison goes for junior title
double in England Under-14 boys
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Robert Burlison from Staffordshire will seek to add the Reid Trophy to the English Schools Under 16 title already in his grasp when the English Boys Under 14 Championship takes place at The Kendleshire Golf Club on 11th - 13th August.
Burlison won the schools title over 36 holes at Northants County, so now the 14 year old from Oxley Park has the chance to double up over 54 holes at Burghley Park near Stamford.
The Reid Trophy is always keenly contested and that will be the case again this year. The field also contains Josh Knight, the joint Somerset Under 14 Champion, and Gloucestershire’s Thomas Burns from Cleeve Cloud, who was among the prize winners at the South West Boys Under 14 Championship.
There are several members of county under 14 teams in the field, among them Conor Warne from Carlyon Bay in Cornwall, and Ben Amor from Marlborough, arguably the leading under 14 player in Wiltshire.
Also competing is Conor Coles from St George’s Hill in Surrey, grandson of Neil Coles, the former Ryder Cup player and now chairman of the European Tour Board of Directors. The player with the lowest handicap of scratch is Nick Ward from Redbourn in Hertfordshire, while the youngest at ten with a handicap of seven is Charlie Strickland from Rustington in Sussex.
As usual, the field of 111 contains many of this country’s best emerging talent as well as youngsters from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Once again there is a strong entry of 34 from overseas, especially from Spain with 11 players. France has six, Italy five, while there are also youngsters from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and one from Singapore.
The title has only gone overseas once, two years ago when Stanislas Gautier from France won at Porters Park. The total number of entries was 184, so a ballot was held and of the 22 players with handicaps of seven, seven gained entry, the remaining 15 were placed on the reserve list. The leading six players in the Championship will gain automatic exemption to next year’s McGregor Trophy (Under 16 Championship) at Prince‘s in Kent.
Admission is free to the event with play starting at 8am on both days. For those unable to attend, scoring, championship commentary and news updates are available on the Championships Section of the EGU website, www.englishgolfunion.org
double in England Under-14 boys
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE ENGLISH GOLF UNION
Robert Burlison from Staffordshire will seek to add the Reid Trophy to the English Schools Under 16 title already in his grasp when the English Boys Under 14 Championship takes place at The Kendleshire Golf Club on 11th - 13th August.
Burlison won the schools title over 36 holes at Northants County, so now the 14 year old from Oxley Park has the chance to double up over 54 holes at Burghley Park near Stamford.
The Reid Trophy is always keenly contested and that will be the case again this year. The field also contains Josh Knight, the joint Somerset Under 14 Champion, and Gloucestershire’s Thomas Burns from Cleeve Cloud, who was among the prize winners at the South West Boys Under 14 Championship.
There are several members of county under 14 teams in the field, among them Conor Warne from Carlyon Bay in Cornwall, and Ben Amor from Marlborough, arguably the leading under 14 player in Wiltshire.
Also competing is Conor Coles from St George’s Hill in Surrey, grandson of Neil Coles, the former Ryder Cup player and now chairman of the European Tour Board of Directors. The player with the lowest handicap of scratch is Nick Ward from Redbourn in Hertfordshire, while the youngest at ten with a handicap of seven is Charlie Strickland from Rustington in Sussex.
As usual, the field of 111 contains many of this country’s best emerging talent as well as youngsters from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Once again there is a strong entry of 34 from overseas, especially from Spain with 11 players. France has six, Italy five, while there are also youngsters from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and one from Singapore.
The title has only gone overseas once, two years ago when Stanislas Gautier from France won at Porters Park. The total number of entries was 184, so a ballot was held and of the 22 players with handicaps of seven, seven gained entry, the remaining 15 were placed on the reserve list. The leading six players in the Championship will gain automatic exemption to next year’s McGregor Trophy (Under 16 Championship) at Prince‘s in Kent.
Admission is free to the event with play starting at 8am on both days. For those unable to attend, scoring, championship commentary and news updates are available on the Championships Section of the EGU website, www.englishgolfunion.org
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