FISHER AND WOLSTENHOLME HEAD FOR HOUSTON
Internationals Ross Fisher and Gary Wolstenholme will represent
England in the Spirit International Championship next month
in Houston, Texas.
The invitation to both the English Golf Union and the English
Ladies Golf Association to send two players each follows England's
success in finishing seventh in last year’s Eisenhower
Trophy in Malaysia.
The Spirit International, consisting of men’s and women’s
72-hole stroke play competitions, will be staged at Whispering
Pines Golf Club just north of Houston on 15th-18th October.
The combined scores will also count towards a Nations Cup.
Fisher and Wolstenholme were partners in the recent Home
Internationals in Ireland where they won two of their three
foursomes matches, while Wolstenholme underlined his value
to England by emerging as top scorer with five points from
six matches.
The 43 year old from Kilworth Springs, Leicestershire, England’s
most successful golfer, is enjoying another highly successful
year having won the Amateur Championship and the Scottish
Stroke Play Championship while helping GB&I to their third
successive Walker Cup victory.
Ironically, 22 year old Fisher denied Wolstenholme another
international success when he beat him in a play-off for the
Finnish Amateur last month.
Fisher, from the Wentworth club, gained his first full England
cap in the European Men’s Team Championships in Holland
this summer, which followed a string of successes including
victory in the Sunningdale Foursomes and a shared win in the
Berkshire Trophy.
A total of 24 nations took part in the last Spirit International
in 2001 and the organising body, The World Health and Golf
Association, is committed to hosting another top international
tournament.
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