BUTLER AND GODFREY COMPETE IN ST MELLION TROPHY
West Country duo Edward Butler and Scott Godfrey will represent
the English Golf Union in the St Mellion International Trophy
being played over the Jack Nicklaus Course at St Mellion in
Cornwall on 3rd-5th August.
This will be the second occasion this year that the pair,
both members of England’s A squad, have been selected
for an event and follows their trip to the Mexican Amateur
Championship in February.
Butler, 24, from the Lansdown club in Gloucestershire, enjoyed
a successful 2003, winning the West of England stroke play
by five shots as well as the match play title with an extra
time victory over England international and Elite Squad member
Lee Corfield.
Butler 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.
Godfrey, 23, from the St Enodoc club in Cornwall, won the
English Amateur Championship in 2001 by beating Durham’s
Simon Robinson at Saunton.
An under 16 and boy international, Godfrey has a long line
of successes including the Carris Trophy in 1998, the Berkhamsted
Trophy in 2001, which preceded his England Amateur triumph
and a full debut for England in the Home Internationals that
same year. He went through a lean spell but has bounced back
to good form.
Past winners of the St Mellion event include Former Amateur
Champion Gary Wolstenholme, ex- international David Griffiths,
now a professional, and Tom Peacock. The 2003 champion, Ross
McGowan, will not be defending as he is back at university
in the United States.
This year’s competition has a field of around 100 players.
There will be a cut after 36 holes, the leading 40 players
and ties competing for the final two rounds. Teams from England,
Spain and Wales will compete in a Nations Cup over the first
two rounds.
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