YOUNG TRIO READY TO CHALLENGE FOR GREEK TITLE
Three of England’s brightest prospects, Lawrence Dodd
(Bury St Edmunds), Jamie Moul (Stoke-by-Nayland) and Eddie
Vernon (Burton), have accepted invitations to compete in the
72-hole Greek Amateur Championship at Glyfada on 25-28 September.
This will be Dodd’s first England representative honour
and comes after a highly successful career within Suffolk
and East Anglian golf. The 20-year-old from Bury St Edmunds
has won the Suffolk Championship on three occasions and is
a past match play champion of the county. He is also a past
champion at Bury St Edmunds and is the course record holder
at the club. Recently he finished as the leading amateur in
the Suffolk Open.
Moul, who will celebrate his 19th birthday during the tournament,
is on the verge of gaining a full international cap having
been named as reserve for the forthcoming Home Internationals.
The former Suffolk Open champion has been on the international
scene since 2000 and has enjoyed a string of successes in
the past two years.
In 2002, he won the Hampshire Salver, while also finishing
runner-up in the Hampshire Hog, Selborne Salver, and the Carris
Trophy. Moul was also capped for the European Boys Team Championships
and the Boys Home Internationals.
This year, the Colchester-based talent has finished third
in the Irish Open Amateur, joint fourth in the Welsh Open
Amateur, and equal fifth in the Hampshire Hog. He lost a play-off
for the Suffolk Amateur Championship but came out on top in
the South East Qualifying at Ealing after a second round 62.
The trip to Greece also hands Vernon, 23, his first representative
honour. The man from Burton-on-Trent is the current Derbyshire
champion who tied with Martin Sell for first place in the
Hampshire Hog earlier this year. He also finished third in
the stroke play qualifying for the Spanish Amateur and was
in the top ten in the Irish Open Amateur. He battled his way
through to the Final Qualifying at the Open Championship and
reached the third round of the English Amateur at Alwoodley.
Tony Moss from Lancashire, a member of the England Selection
Committee, will manage the squad.
The Greek Amateur has been a happy hunting ground for English
golfers in recent years. Yorkshire’s John Wells won
the individual title in 1998, Ben Welch, Andrew Paisley and
Simon Young won the Nations Cup in 2000, Welch and Young finishing
second and third in the individual event, while James Heath
from Surrey emerged as champion last year.
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