BUTLER AND GODFREY HEAD DOWN MEXICO WAY
West Country twin title-holder Ed Butler and former English
Champion, Scott Godfrey, will jet off to the sunshine next
month to represent England in the Mexican Amateur Championship.
The South West pair, both members of England’s Potential
A Squad, will compete in the 72-hole stroke play event at
the Mexico City Country Club on 19th to 22nd February.
Butler, 24, from the Lansdown club in Bath, enjoyed a successful
2003, winning the West of England stroke play by five shots
and match play title with an extra time victory over England
International and Elite Squad member, Lee Corfield.
Butler, who also won the Burnham & Berrow Challenge Salver
last year, has topped the Gloucestershire Order of Merit on
three occasions and has represented the South West Counties.
The Lansdown Champion and course record holder, who plays
off a handicap of plus two, also finished tied sixth in the
Lytham Trophy.
When the England squads for 2004 were announced, Butler was
included in the A Squad, which underlines his potential as
a future full cap.
Godfrey is a former Under-16 and Boy international, who won
the Carris Trophy, the English Boys Under-18 Stroke Play Championship
in 1998 at Whittington Heath, then carried off the South West
Counties individual award in 2000 and the Berkhamsted Trophy
the following year.
That same year, the 22 year old from the St Enodoc club secured
the top prize when he won the English Amateur Championship
at Saunton, beating Durham’s Simon Robinson in the 36-hole
final, becoming the first Cornish golfer to secure the title.
Although he was briefly included in the England Elite Squad
in 2002, Godfrey struck a lean patch and became a member of
the A Squad last year when his best performance was tied second
in the South West Counties Championship at Burnham & Berrow.
This will be the second occasion that the EGU has sent players
to the Mexican Amateur. In 2002, internationals Paul Bradshaw
from Lincolnshire and Warwickshire’s Jamie Elson carried
the flag.
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