EGU SEND PEPPERELL AND COOLEY TO JONES CUP IN AMERICAZ
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE ENGLISH GOLF UNION
Eddie Pepperell (Drayton Park), a member of England’s victorious European Team Championship and Home Internationals squads in 2010, and Andrew Cooley (Chobham, Surrey) will fly the flag for the EGU in the Jones Invitational Cup in the United States at the start of February.
No English player has managed to win the title and a field of 84 top amateurs from the US and around the world, will compete over 54 holes of stroke play at Ocean Forest Golf Club, Sea Island, Georgia, starting on Friday and ending on Sunday (February 4-6).
Pepperell, 20, made his full international debut in the 2008 Home Internationals and has been an England regular since. A former under 16 and boy cap, he enjoyed a successful season last year, winning the Welsh Open Stroke Play Championship and the Berkshire Trophy, finishing 13th on the Titleist Footjoy EGU Order of Merit.
He also represented GB and I against the Continent of Europe in the St Andrews Trophy besides playing a key role in England’s team successes.
Cooley, 21, is a former Italian Amateur Champion and West of England Stroke Play Champion. He helped Surrey to the English Boys County Championship at Royal Cromer in 2007 and finished tied ninth in last year’s Lee Westwood Trophy.
The Jones Cup was inaugurated in 2001 at Sea Island and the most successful English player so far has been Gary Wolstenholme who finished tied fifth in 2001 while Jamie Elson was equal sixth in 2003. Originally a biennial event, it is now played annually.
Lynne Fraser
PR and Marketing Manager
English Golf Union
01526 354500 or lfraser@englishgolfunion.org
Eddie Pepperell (Drayton Park), a member of England’s victorious European Team Championship and Home Internationals squads in 2010, and Andrew Cooley (Chobham, Surrey) will fly the flag for the EGU in the Jones Invitational Cup in the United States at the start of February.
No English player has managed to win the title and a field of 84 top amateurs from the US and around the world, will compete over 54 holes of stroke play at Ocean Forest Golf Club, Sea Island, Georgia, starting on Friday and ending on Sunday (February 4-6).
Pepperell, 20, made his full international debut in the 2008 Home Internationals and has been an England regular since. A former under 16 and boy cap, he enjoyed a successful season last year, winning the Welsh Open Stroke Play Championship and the Berkshire Trophy, finishing 13th on the Titleist Footjoy EGU Order of Merit.
He also represented GB and I against the Continent of Europe in the St Andrews Trophy besides playing a key role in England’s team successes.
Cooley, 21, is a former Italian Amateur Champion and West of England Stroke Play Champion. He helped Surrey to the English Boys County Championship at Royal Cromer in 2007 and finished tied ninth in last year’s Lee Westwood Trophy.
The Jones Cup was inaugurated in 2001 at Sea Island and the most successful English player so far has been Gary Wolstenholme who finished tied fifth in 2001 while Jamie Elson was equal sixth in 2003. Originally a biennial event, it is now played annually.
Lynne Fraser
PR and Marketing Manager
English Golf Union
01526 354500 or lfraser@englishgolfunion.org
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