BROOKS READY TO DEFEND REID TROPHY
A total of 111 of the best young golfers from Britain and
Europe, including the defending champion Jack Brooks, will
line-up in the English Boys Under-14 Stroke Play Championship
for the Reid Trophy at Kings Norton Golf Club, Worcestershire,
on 12th - 13th August.
Many of the boys, who are likely to become the internationals
of tomorrow, have low handicaps despite their tender years
and, for English players, the Reid Trophy offers a stepping
stone to EGU regional coaching, a first foot on the ladder
to greater things.
The players with the lowest handicap are Anthony Paolucci
from the United States and Italian Cristiano Terragni, who
are both off two, while there are two English lads, Daniel
Renwick from Worthing and Tommy Fleetwood from Formby Hall
with handicaps of three.
Brooks won the title last year at Porters Park in Hertfordshire
when still only 12 years of age. His rounds of 73 and 74 for
147 left him a stroke ahead of Cornwall’s Billy Downing,
who is again in the field. So, too, is Stuart Ballingall from
Norfolk, who finished tied fourth last year.
Young golfers from Belgium, Italy, Portugal, the United States
as well as a Russian, Mikhail Morozov, are also competing
while the Netherlands, who are gaining a glowing reputation
in junior golf, have four players in the field. Their young
golfers have already made significant gains in Britain, winning
the McGregor Trophy last year as well as the Henry Cooper
Juniors Masters a few weeks ago.
The youngest player competing is Oscar Sharp from Minchinhampton,
who won’t be nine until next month.
The leading six players in the Championship will gain automatic
exemption to next year’s McGregor Trophy, the England
Boys’ Under 16 Championship, at Radcliffe-on- Trent.
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