LAURIE WINS SPANISH FINAL AT A CANTER AGAINST HODGSON

Laurie Canter with the Spanish international championship trophy.

Laurie Canter, 20, from Saltford Golf Club, Somerset, showed no mercy on 21-year-old Stiggy Hodgson from the Sunningdale club, in today's all-English 36-hole final of the Spanish international men's amateur championship at El Prat Golf Club. Canter won by 11 and 10, having been nine holes up at the end of the morning round.
Canter, who has a handicap of +5, was 29th of the 32 qualifiers for the match-play stages after two rounds of stroke-play qualifying. Hodgson, who plays off +2.8, was 15th in the qualifying.
Both men are likely to be in the GB and Ireland team for the Walker Cup match against the Americans at Royal Aberdeen in September. Hodgson played in the 2009 match in the States.
England also provided the winner of the first big event of the 2011 amateur season - the Portuguese international men's amateur championship, won by Eddie Pepperell, who did not qualify for the match-play stages of the "Spanish."

FINAL (36 HOLES) - Canter bt Hodgson 11 and 10.