TALENTED TRIO TO CONTEST GERMAN AMATEUR
Three of England’s talented young players, Matthew
Baldwin, Lawrence Dodd and Ian Parnaby, will represent the
English Golf Union in the International German Amateur Championship
on 11th - 14th August.
The tournament, being played at Seddiner See Golf and Country
Club, situated 40km south west of Berlin, will be Baldwin’s
second representative honour in Germany. He played in the
European Young Masters at Augsburg in 2002.
The former England boy captain from Lancashire has been on
the international scene for the past five years. Still only
19, Baldwin won the English Boys Under 16 Championship for
the McGregor Trophy in 2002 and was both an under 16 and boy
cap that year. A quarter finalist in the English Amateur Championship
in 2003, he also earned representative honours in Holland
and Turkey. Last year’s Lancashire champion, Baldwin
also skippered England to victory in the Boys Home Internationals
in Ireland.
This year, he has played in the South Africa Amateur Championship,
was a member of the winning England team in the Costa Ballena
Quadrangular Tournament in Spain, and represented England
in the Portuguese Amateur Championship.
Dodd, 21, made his full England debut in last year’s
Home Internationals in Scotland which followed a quarter final
appearance in the English Amateur and second place for England
in the European Youths Team Championship in Ireland.
A former Suffolk champion and Greek Amateur winner, he was
reserve for the international with Spain in April before winning
the Hampshire Hog and finishing runner-up in the Hampshire
Salver. He also finished tied fourth in the Berkshire Trophy
and reached the fourth round of last week’s English
Amateur as a seeded player.
Parnaby, 25, is a former boy cap from Durham, who opened
this year on a high note by reaching the semi-finals of the
Spanish Amateur Championship and winning the Berkhamsted Trophy.
He is also a former English Schools champion and represented
Durham in last year’s English County Finals at Worksop.
The German Amateur is played over 72 holes stroke play with
a cut after two rounds, the leading 60 players and ties going
through to the final 36 holes. There is also a Nations Cup
decided over the opening two rounds, the best two cards each
day counting.
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