CHAMPIONS LINE UP IN WOODHALL SPA SHOWDOWN
The champions from 32 counties will battle it out over 36
holes of the testing Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa on Saturday
18th September to see who will be crowned the county champion
of England.
The entry list contains former England cap, Mike Reynard,
representing Cornwall, England boy captain Matthew Baldwin
(Lancashire), plus members of various England squads.
Reynard was a finalist in the Amateur Championship in 1995
at Hoylake but was beaten by Scotland’s Gordon Sherry.
Capped by England from 1996-’98 when he was a member
of Moseley Golf Club in Worcestershire, Reynard had a spell
as a professional before regaining his amateur status and
moving to Cornwall.
This year, the 42 year old has not only won the Cornish Championship
but also the South West title after a play-off at Trevose.
Baldwin, 18, is a former under 16 international, who won
the McGregor Trophy at Sheringham in 2002. The teenager from
Hesketh has been a member of the last three victorious England
teams in the Boys Home Internationals and this year he helped
bring back the European Boys Team Championship from Finland.
Several players in the field competed in the recent Champion
Club Tournament at Sandwell Park including Nottingham champion
Martin, who helped his club Worksop to third place, Rupert
Rea from Surrey, Ed Richardson from Kent and William Bowe
from Cumbria.
Bowe is the only player in the field who competed in last
year’s County Champions event.
There are two county champions not taking part because they
are in America. Oliver Fisher, the England boy international
from Essex, is at the Ryder Cup after competing for Europe
in the junior version of the event, while the Lincolnshire
champion David Skinns is back at college in Tennessee.
Besides carrying off the title, the winner or joint winners
will also gain automatic entry into next year’s Brabazon
Trophy.
The winner will also join an elite list of champions that
includes Sandy Lyle, Nick Faldo, Peter McEvoy, and Lee Westwood.
The full list of entries:
Bedfordshire (Mark Wharton), Berks, Bucks and Oxon (Tom Lawson),
Cambridgeshire (Jody Greenall), Cheshire (David Peel), Cornwall
(Mike Reynard), Cumbria (William Bowe), Derbyshire (David
Clarke), Devon (Paul Newcombe), Dorset (David Cook), Durham
(Hugh Hamilton), Gloucestershire (Andy Rudge), Hampshire,
IOW & CI (Mark Thistleton), Hertfordshire (Rob Leonard),
Isle of Man (Kevin Moore), Kent (Ed Richardson), Lancashire
(Matthew Baldwin), Leicestershire & Rutland (Neil Chaudhuri),
Middlesex (Justin Phelps), Norfolk (Craig Waugh), Northamptonshire
(Stuart Ashwood), Northumberland (Sandy Twynholm), Nottinghamshire
(Martin Foulkes), Shropshire & Herefordshire (Michael
Jones), Somerset (John Baker-Odlin), Staffordshire (John Bandurak),
Suffolk (Steve Crosby). Surrey (Rupert Rea), Sussex (Wayne
Hawes), Warwickshire (Matthew Cryer), Wiltshire (Michael White),
Worcestershire (James Toman), Yorkshire (David Appleyard)
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