New caps in England teams to challenge for

European senior honours

New caps Sue Spencer, Trevor Foster and Rupert Kellock are named in the England sides for the European senior team championships. 

Foster, the British senior champion (pictured top), and Kellock will be joined in the men’s team by Ian Attoe, Stephen East, Richard Latham and Richard Partridge. 

 

In the women’s team, Spencer will play alongside Julie Brown, Jackie Foster, Aileen Greenfield, Helen Lowe and Cath Rawthore.

 

The championships will be played from September 4-8, with the women competing at Mont Garni Golf Club, Belgium, and the men travelling to Diamond Country Club, Austria. 

 

Last year the women won the silver medal at their European championship while the men took bronze. 

 

The players. 

 

Men, captained by Roy Smethurst (Crewe, Cheshire).

 

Ian Attoe (Worplesdon, Surrey) won the English senior men’s amateur for the second time in May and is currently second in the England Golf senior order of merit. 

 

Stephen East (Wyke Ridge, Yorkshire) is a past winner of the English, Spanish, Portuguese and Scottish senior titles.  He also won the senior order of merit in 2014, 2016 and 2017. 

 

Trevor Foster (Accrington and District, Lancashire) scored a runaway nine-shot win in the British seniors’ at Royal Porthcawl where he was eight-under. He has also won the Irish seniors this season and leads the order of merit.

 

Rupert Kellock (Sunningdale, Berkshire) is currently third in the order of merit after high finishes in the English and British championships and the Bill Shankland Memorial Trophy at Parkstone, Dorset. 

 

Richard Latham (Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire) was fourth in the British seniors and has twice won the English senior title.

 

Richard Partridge (Wildernesse, Kent) is a past winner of the Irish and Scottish senior titles and a runner-up in Wales. 

 

Women, captained by Debbie Richards (Burhill, Surrey).

 

Aileen Greenfield (Pyecombe, Sussex) is the English senior women’s amateur champion and has been runner up for three national titles.  

 

Sue Spencer, pictured right, (Whittington Heath, Staffordshire) reached the semi-finals of the senior amateur and took fourth place in the senior stroke play. 

 

Jackie Foster (Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire) won back-to-back senior stroke play titles in 2016 and 2017. 

 

Julie Brown (Trentham, Staffordshire) is a past winner of the British and English senior amateur title. 

 

Cath Rawthore (Sale, Cheshire) is also a past British champion as well as the winner of both English senior titles. 

 

Helen Lowe (Scraptoft, Leicestershire) won the English senior stroke-play title this year and is a past winner of the amateur. 

 

Images copyright Leaderboard Photography 

 

 

‎ Lyndsey Hewison
‎ Press Officer
‎ England Golf
‎ pr@englandgolf.org
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