HUNTER AND SMITH EARN A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Tommy Hunter and James Smith, two 18 year old boy internationals
and members of England's Potential A Squad, will represent
England in the 103rd All India Amateur Championship at Royal
Calcutta Golf Club next month.
This is the first time the EGU has accepted an invitation
from the Indian Golf Union for the week-long tournament, which
runs from the 9th to 15th February.
Hunter is the current holder of the McEvoy Trophy and was
a reserve for the World Boys Team Championships in Japan last
summer. He was also selected as a reserve for the European
Boys Team Championships in the Czech Republic but got to make
his debut when Gary Boyd pulled out through injury.
The lad from the Ilford club in Essex also played in the
winning Boys Home Internationals team as well as the victorious
GB&I squad in the Jacques Leglise Trophy. He also finished
runner-up in the Essex Championship.
Smith, from Sundridge Park Golf Club, is a former Kent Boy
champion and a member of the Kent side that finished runners-up
to Yorkshire in the Boys County Championships. He went to
Japan as a member of the four-strong England side for the
World Boys Team Championships as well as to the Czech Republic.
Having finished runner-up for the Bernard Darwin Salver at
Rye in 2002, Smith went one better last summer when he won
the Tillman Trophy at Moortown.
The two English lads will arrive in India on the 6th February
and will have two days practice at Royal Calcutta, the oldest
golf club outside the British Isles. An international stroke
play team event will be held on the 9th and 10th before the
main championship, run on a match play format, starts on the
11th.
Each round will consist of 18 holes before the 36-hole final
takes place on 15th February.
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