England send 20 to European championship in Finland

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Five members of England’s winning European Men’s Team Championship squad are among a group of 20 players who will represent the English Golf Union (EGU) in the International European Amateur Championship at Vanajanlinna Golf and Country Club in Finland next week (August 4 to 7).
They are Laurie Canter (Saltford, Somerset), Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall, Lancashire), Billy Hemstock (Teignmouth, Devon), Tom Lewis (Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) and Eddie Pepperell (Drayton Park).
The full group is:
 Jamie Abbott (Fynn Valley, Suffolk), Todd Adcock (Nevill, Sussex), Jonathan Bell (Royal Blackheath), Laurie Canter, Hugo Dobson (Fynn Valley, Suffolk), Tommy Fleetwood, Billy Hemstock (picture © Tom Ward), Stiggy Hodgson (Sunningdale, Surrey), Adam Keogh (Boston West), Tom Lewis, Chris Lloyd (The Kendleshire), Ben Loughrey (Wrag Barn, Wiltshire), Matt Nixon (Ashton-under-Lyne), Eddie Pepperell, Darren Renwick (Hill Barn, Sussex), James Robinson (Southport and Ainsdale, Lancashire), Jack Senior (Heysham, Lancashire), Tom Shadbolt (Mid Herts, Hertfordshire), Matthew Southgate (Thorpe Hall, Essex) and Darren Wright (Rowlands Castle, Hampshire).
Canter has already won the South African Amateur, Hampshire Hog and West of England titles this year, Fleetwood the SandA Bowl, Lewis won the Berkhamsted Trophy and Pepperell has two titles to his credit this year, the Welsh Open Stroke Play and the Berkshire Trophy.
Of the other players heading for Finland, Abbott qualified for the Open Championship at St Andrews, Dobson won the South East of England Links Championship, and Lloyd was runner-up in the McEvoy Trophy. Nixon was a semi finalist in the Amateur Championship, Robinson won the Formby Hare, Southgate triumphed in the St Andrews Links Trophy, while Wright triumphed in the Brabazon Trophy supported by SkyCaddie last month.
It is six years since the title was won by an English player, the last being Matthew Richardson in 2004. But since then James Heath, Gary Lockerbie, Matt Cryer and Steven Lewton have finished runner-up while Hemstock was third last year.