England send Sullivan and Raymond to Argentina

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Andrew Sullivan (Nuneaton, Warwickshire), recently named in the 2011 Walker Cup preliminary squad, and Neil Raymond (Corhampton, Hampshire) will attempt to maintain England’s fine record when they represent the English Golf Union in the 15th Juan Carlos Tailhade Cup at the Los Lagartos Country Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina from Thursday to Sunday this week.
The pair will then go on to compete in the 115th Argentine Amateur Championship at the Highland Park Country Club, Buenos Aires from November 16 to 21.
Sullivan, 23, a member of the England Squad, has achieved a string of successes in recent years, which has earned him a place in the 23-strong GB and I Walker Cup squad for the match at Royal Aberdeen next August.

A semi-finalist in the Amateur Championship in 2008, Sullivan won the Midland Open Amateur and Midland Closed in 2009 while his victories this year have included the Hampshire Salver, Lagonda Trophy and both Midland titles again. He also finished runner-up in the Selborne Salver, West of England Stroke Play and the Lee Westwood Trophy and was a quarter finalist in the English Amateur.
At the end of the season he occupied second place in the Titleist Footjoy EGU Order of Merit.
Raymond, 24, named among the invitees to the England Squad, also tasted victory during 2010, winning the Parman Cup at St Mellion. A quarter finalist in the 2008 English Amateur, the Hampshire golfer also finished runner-up while representing the EGU in the Czech Amateur, fourth in the South of England Stroke Play, and sixth in the Lagonda Trophy and the New South Wales Amateur in Australia last winter. He was also a member of the Hampshire team in the English County Finals at Hunstanton in September.
England has a fine record in the Tailhade Cup, a 72-hole stroke play event where the aggregate of both players’ scores count. Winning pairings have included Nick Dougherty and Gary Wolstenholme in 2000, Zane Scotland and David Skinns in 2001, Gary Lockerbie and Michael Skelton in 2003, and Seve Benson and Ed Richardson in 2006, while Sam Hutsby and Chris Wood finished runners-up in 2007.
The Argentine Amateur Championship has a 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition with the leading 64 players going forward to the match play knockout, each round of 18 holes, culminating in a 36-hole final. Luke Goddard won the title at Golf Club Nordelta in 2008, while Eddie Pepperell was a quarter finalist last year.