BELGIAN ASSIGNMENT FOR BOYD AND PARRY
Two former boy internationals, Gary Boyd and John Parry,
have been chosen to represent the English Golf Union in the
Saab International Juniors Championships at the Royal Belgian
Golf Club, near Brussels, on 23rd - 27th August.
Boyd, 18, from Northamptonshire, played in the Boys Home
Internationals, in 2002 and 2004. He also represented England
in the World Boys Team Championships in Japan in 2003 and
was selected for the European Boys Team Championships in the
Czech Republic but pulled out with a back injury.
The Midland Youth champion in 2004, he also represented GB&I
in the Jacques Leglise Trophy. This year he finished second
in the Hampshire Hog, represented the EGU in the Chiberta
Grand Prix in France, and reached the quarter finals of the
English Amateur Championship. He is a member of the England
A training squad.
Parry goes into the Saab having just won the Danish Amateur
Championship in Silkeborg. The 18 year old Yorkshireman from
Harrogate has enjoyed a superb junior career, being capped
at under 16 level, winning the McEvoy Trophy in 2004, and
helping England lift the Boys Home Internationals in the same
year. He also finished runner-up in the English Boys under
18 Championship for the Carris Trophy and in the Daily Telegraph
Junior Championship before being named in this year’s
England A training squad.
Prior to his Danish success, Parry won the Yorkshire County
Championship, finished fourth in the inaugural South of England
Strokeplay, and was a member of the victorious England side
in the Costa Ballena Quadrangular tournament in Spain.
A girls event will run alongside the boys competition with
Laura Eastwood (Yelverton) and Joanne Hodge (Knowle) being
the English representatives.
The Saab Junior Championship has attracted a large international
field with players from Canada, Morocco and South Africa as
well as from most European countries. There will also be a
Nations Cup.
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