Kellett eyes Eisenhower Trophy defence

in Buenos Aires next autumn

FROM THE SCOTSMAN WEBSITE
By MARTIN DEMPSTER
Ross Kellett, who finished runner-up in the Argentina open amateur championship last weekend, has set his sights on returning to the Buenos Aires Golf Club towards the end of next year as part of the Scotland side that will be defending the Eisenhower Trophy.
Wallace Booth, Gavin Dear and Callum Macaulay, the trio who secured that piece of silverware when Scotland were crowned as world amateur champions in Australia last year, are all now in the professional ranks.
As a member of the side that added the European title at Conwy earlier this year, Kellett, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, who has followed the O'Hara brothers, Steven and Paul, off the conveyor belt at Colville Park in Motherwell, was already on the list of contenders for the vacant spots and has now jumped to the head of the queue on the back of an excellent performance in South America.
"It will obviously help that I have done so well on a course that the Eisenhower Trophy will be played on," said the 21-year-old, who beat the highly-rated young German player, Philip Westermann, in the semi-final and had no reason to feel disheartened after losing by 7 and 5 in the 36-hole final given that his opponent, French champion Romain Wattel, was 12-under-par for the holes played.
"However, there's a lot of golf to be played between now and then, so I will knuckle down and get on with my game and, hopefully, that will be good enough to make the team. Kellett also finished runner-up in the European Individual Championship earlier in the year, having also secured the same spot in the New South Wales Amateur Championship.
*The full article above appears in The Scotsman newspaper.