CHIBERTA CALL-UP FOR FREEMAN, MOUL AND OSBORNE
Jamie Moul (Stoke by Nayland) and Sam Osborne (Wentworth),
both promising youngsters on the national scene, have been
selected to represent England in the annual Chiberta Grand
Prix in France next month.
They will be accompanied in a three-man team by Kevin Freeman
(Stoke Park), who will also be team manager for the tournament
in Biarritz on 16-20 July.
Moul, 18, was capped by England for the Boys Home Internationals
in 2000 and also played at under-16 level against Scotland
that same year. After winning the Hampshire Salver last year,
he represented England in the European Boys Team Championships
in Iceland and again in the Boys Home Internationals.
He was also picked for Great Britain and Ireland in the Jacques
Leglise Trophy against the Continent of Europe in 2002, winning
his three matches.
In other individual competitions, Moul was Suffolk Open Champion
in 2001, finished runner-up in the Selborne Salver and the
English Boys Under-18 Stroke Play Championship for the Carris
Trophy, both in 2002, and recently lost a play-off for the
Suffolk Amateur Championship. He is a member of the England
Potential A Squad.
Osborne, 21, has played for Surrey at all levels and been
a member of the first team since 2000. Individual victories
have eluded the talented golfer from Wentworth, who finished
runner-up in the Daily Telegraph Junior Championship in 1999
and reached the semi-finals of the English Amateur Championship
at Walton Heath last year.
Recently, he led the Lagonda Trophy for two rounds and eventually
finished tied third, while he also reached the quarter finals
of the Amateur Championship at Royal Troon.
Freeman, 25, is a former Berks, Bucks and Oxon champion,
who has been a stalwart of the county scene for many years.
A graduate of Brunel University, he is now an accountant and
this will be his first England representative honour.
The Chiberta competition is medal stroke play over 72 holes
with a halfway cut. There is also a team event over the first
two days, two of the three cards to count.
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