ENGLAND SIX SEEK DUTCH SUCCESS
Grant Slater, joint winner of the Carris Trophy last year,
has been selected in a six-strong squad of England’s
most promising young golfers to compete in the Westfriese
Junior Masters in Holland on 19th - 20th June.
The Cornwall-based teenager from Carlyon Bay will be accompanied
by Jake Amos (Birstall), Seve Benson (Wentworth), Steven Capper
(Caldy), Alex MacGregor (Killiow Park), and Tom Sherreard
(Chart Hills). The non-travelling reserves are Gary Boyd (Northants
County) and Thomas Haylock (The Hertfordshire).
Slater, who will turn 18 on 16th June, shared the Carris
Trophy (the England Boys Under 18 Stroke Play Championship)
with Daniel Denison at Burnham and Berrow last July which
helped secure him a first cap in the Boys Home Internationals
in Wales.
He is a member of the England School of Excellence and played
in the friendly international with Sweden at Hunstanton in
April.
Amos, 17, is another member of the School of Excellence who
helped Leicestershire to the runners-up spot in the English
County Finals last September at Formby and is a former under
16 international.
Surrey-based Benson, 17, gained a place in the School of
Excellence this year and earned his first England call against
the Swedes at Hunstanton. He also finished sixth in this year’s
McEvoy Trophy.
Capper, 16, from Cheshire, is a member of the England Regional
Coaching group in the North West and finished third in the
McEvoy Trophy in April. He also emerged with an unbeaten record
in the recent Four Counties event involving Cheshire, Lancashire,
Nottinghamshire and Shropshire & Herefordshire at Beeston
Fields.
MacGregor, 18, is the only member of the squad to have played
in the Westfriese event last year. A team-mate of Slater’s
in the Cornish county team, MacGregor is a former under-16
international, who stepped up a level last August to make
his debut in the Boys Home Internationals.
He finished third behind Slater and Denison in last year’s
Carris Trophy and has been a member of the School of Excellence
for three years.
Sherreard, 17, has helped Kent to the runners-up spot in
the Boys County Finals for the past two years. A former under
16 cap, he has been a School of Excellence member for two
years and recently won the Faldo Series under 17 event at
Walton Heath.
The squad will form two teams in the Westfriese event, Benson,
MacGregor and Slater making up the under-18 squad and Amos,
Capper and Sherreard the under-17 side.
In the Westfriese tournament, 27 holes will be played on
day one after which a cut will be made with the survivors
playing the final 27 holes on the following day.
It will be the second year England has sent players to this
well-established 54-hole tournament, which will be preceded
by an Am-Am.
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