SMITH SEEKS FURTHER SUCCESS IN PEUGEOT CLASSIC
James Smith, who reached the semi-finals of the All-India
Amateur Championship earlier this year, has been named in
a squad of four players to compete in the 21st Peugeot Classic
in Prunevelle Golf Club, on the border with Switzerland, on
20-23 May.
The Kent 18 year old will be joined by three fellow England
A Squad members, Danny Denison, Lawrence Dodd and Paul Waring.
Smith, from the Sundridge Park club, has been a boy international
for the past two years, having made his debut in the Boys
Home Internationals at Blairgowrie in 2002.
Before this year he had represented England in the World
Boys Team Championships in Japan and the European Boys Team
Championships in the Czech Republic.
Winner of the Tillman Trophy at Moortown, Leeds, last year,
he travelled to the sub continent in February and battled
his way through to the last four before losing to the eventual
winner from Sri Lanka.
Denison, 19, from Yorkshire, enjoyed a successful 2003 in
which he made his international debut in the European Boys
Team Championships in the Czech Republic then played in the
Boys Home Internationals in Wales.
He was also called up by the R&A for the Jacques Leglise
Trophy in Ireland while representing Yorkshire in the boys’
end men’s county finals.
After being named in the England A Squad, Denison represented
the EGU in the Orange Bowl tournament in the United States
and was a teammate of Heath’s at Costa Ballena.
Suffolk-based Dodd won the Greek Amateur Championship on
his first foreign assignment last year and was also in the
team at Costa Ballena.
Recently he finished runner-up in the West of England Stroke
Play Championship.
Waring, last year’s England boy captain, played in
the World Boys Team Championships in Japan as well as the
European Boys Team Championships, the Boys Home Internationals
and the Jacques Leglise Trophy.
The 19 year old from Cheshire also made the Costa Ballena
team and has recently finished runner-up in the Duncan Putter
in Wales and third in the West of England Championship.
The event will be played over 72 holes with a Nations Cup
involving teams of three.
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