Callum Shinwin wins Carris Trophy by seven strokes

FROM THE ENGLISH GOLF UNION WEBSITE
Callum Shinkwin produced two sensational rounds of golf over the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa to win the English Boys under 18 Stroke Play Championship for the Carris Trophy, supported by Titleist, by a street.
A closing round of 68, which followed a morning 67, left him on 281, 11 under par, and seven shots ahead of his nearest challengers, Harry Casey and Paul Lockwood.
Appropriately, Shinkwin, from the Moor Park club, the traditional home of the Carris Trophy, is the third Hertfordshire player to win the title in the past six years and succeeds Tom Lewis as champion.
“Winning this championship means a lot to me,” said Shinkwin. “I’ve been trying to show I can play in the bigger tournaments. Now I’ve won one.”
So what was Shinkwin’s secret? “I don’t have a clue but it all came together for me,” he added. “But I just hit the ball well and putted well. I just went out and played and I only went in one bunker all day and I got up-and-down from that.”
Although Shinkwin has not hit the heights until now, he has enjoyed success in what has been his emerging season. He finished fifth in the McEvoy Trophy, was runner-up in the Hertfordshire Championship and made the cut in the Brabazon Trophy. “I’ve just played steadily and I’ve only missed one cut,” he admitted.
He now adds his name to an illustrious list of former winners such as Sandy Lyle, Peter Baker, Justin Rose and Ken Brown, another Hertfordshire winner back in 1974. “I’d like to be as successful as they have been,” Shinkwin added.
On a day that began bright, brought some rain and produced lightning which forced a 25 minute stoppage of play, Shinkwin’s statistics are worth considering. He was 11 under par for 36 holes, found 14 birdies, nine in round three, his final round was bogey-free and he also had an air shot when he flicked his putter at a one inch putt – and missed.
“That was on the 17th this morning when I missed from six feet and then failed to connect with the ball lying on the lip,” he admitted.
Casey put himself in the frame with a bogey-free morning return of 68 but he couldn’t keep pace with Shinkwin and a closing 72 left him sharing second spot with Yorkshire’s Lockwood, who was the other player to fire two sub-par rounds with 72 and 71.
Levi Desmond from Lincolnshire hoisted himself to fourth on three-under-par 289 with a closing 70, while Patrick Kelly, also from Lincolnshire, signed for a closing 69 for joint fifth with Hampshire’s Colin Walsh.
Halfway leader Sam Young, the Yorkshire Boy Champion, had a disappointing day; rounds of 76 and 77 dropped him down the order to joint 13th on 295.
Another highlight of the day was a hole-in-one by Freddie Sheridan Mills in the morning with a pitching wedge at the 143-yard fifth hole. It was his second ‘ace’ but his first in competition but he finished with a brace of 77s for 297.
The Hazards Salver for the best performance by an under 16 player from Britain and Ireland was won by Kelly while the Malcolm Reid Salver for the combined aggregate from the Carris and McEvoy Trophies also went to Shinkwin on 563.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 292 (4x73)
1st Callum Shinkwin Moor Park Golf Club 76 70 67 68 281
2nd P Lockwood Hessle Golf Club 72 73 72 71 288
2nd Harry Casey Enfield Golf Club 74 74 68 72 288
4th Levi Desmond DeVere Belton Woods Golf Club 70 75 74 70 289 
5th Patrick Kelly Boston West Golf Club 76 72 75 69 292
5th Colin Walsh Hayling Golf Club 71 75 72 74 292 
7th Steven Jones Canons Brook Golf Club 77 73 71 72 293
7th Thomas Detry Belgium 74 71 75 73 293
7th Jack Heasman West Essex Golf Club 73 71 73 76 293 
10th Luke Jackson Worksop Golf Club 76 75 75 68 294
10th Christopher Lloyd Kendleshire Golf Club (The) 74 74 73 73 294
10th Oliver Carr Heswall Golf Club 72 73 73 76 294
13th Curtis Griffiths Wentworth Golf Club 71 77 75 72 295 
13th Adrian Otaegui Spain 76 72 75 72 295
13th Sam Young Rotherham Golf Club 71 71 76 77 295
16th Axel Geers Netherlands 75 76 71 74 296
16th Thomas Pieters Belgium 73 75 73 75 296
16th Jerome Titlow The London Golf Club 71 74 76 75 296 
19th Mark Geddes Prenton Golf Club 75 73 77 72 297
19th Toby Tree Worthing Golf Club 69 77 75 76 297 
19th Freddie Sheridan Mills Walsall Golf Club 70 73 77 77 297 
22nd Billy Downing Truro Golf Club 76 74 76 72 298
22nd Ben Smith Sandy Lodge Golf Club 74 75 73 76 298 
22nd David Blick East Devon Golf Club 76 72 73 77 298 
25th Nathan Kimsey Woodhall Spa Golf Club 70 74 79 76 299 
25th Jeroen Krietemeijer Netherlands 72 74 74 79 299
27th Federico Zucchetti Italy 76 70 78 76 300 +8
27th Matthew Bacon Costessey Park Golf Club 73 75 73 79 300 +8
29th Craig Cameron Wentworth Golf Club 76 75 74 76 301 +9
29th Matthew Chapman Wentworth Golf Club 71 78 75 77 301 +9
29th Jonny Mcallister Hallowes Golf Club 71 74 78 78 301 +9
29th Jake Harrison Grassmoor Golf Club 70 76 76 79 301 +9
33rd Jorge Simon Spain 69 80 75 78 302 +10
33rd Sam Cutting Berkhamsted Golf Club 73 75 74 80 302 +10
35th Greg Payne Chobham Golf Club 77 74 76 76 303 +11
35th Thomas Rowland Prudhoe Golf Club 74 73 74 82 303 +11
37th Greg Eason Kirby Muxloe Golf Club 76 75 77 76 304 +12
37th Thomas Clements Royal Norwich Golf Club 70 79 79 76 304 +12
39th Robert Aldred Stourbridge Golf Club 74 74 84 73 305 +13
39th Tomasz Anderson Mill Green Golf Club 71 76 82 76 305 +13
41st Adam Batty Hazlemere Golf Club 75 75 76 80 306 +14
42nd Nathan Kemp Sweetwoods Park Golf Club 75 74 80 78 307 +15
42nd Edward Peters Notts Golf Club 71 73 81 82 307 +15
44th Ryan Wallace Handsworth Golf Club 76 73 85 75 309 +17
45th J A Bolton Formby Golf Club 77 74 78 81 310 +18
46th Michael Helyard Beverley & East Riding Golf Club 74 77 85 76 312 +20
47th James Newton Prestbury Golf Club 75 76 85 80 316 +24