WARING ONE OF FOUR NEW CAPS IN ENGLAND HOME INTERNATIONALS
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Paul Waring, the new English champion, will be hoping to
stay injury free after being selected to make his full debut
when England host the Home Internationals at Royal St George’s,
Sandwich, on 7th – 9th September.
The 20 year old from Cheshire was due to earn his first full
cap a year ago in the same event at Prestwick but a damaged
shoulder tendon forced him to pull out. Now, Waring will line
up with three other new caps, James Crampton, Matthew Cryer
and Edward Richardson, in an experienced team that will defend
the title won narrowly in Scotland a year ago.
The others selected for the England team are Robert Dinwiddie,
Oliver Fisher, Adam Gee, Jamie Moul, James Ruth, Steven Tiley
and Gary Wolstenholme.
Four of those selected, Fisher, Moul, Tiley and Wolstenholme,
were in the England team that won the European Men’s
Team Championship at Hillside last month. Another foursome,
Dinwiddie, Gee, Tiley and Wolstenholme, were in the winning
team at last years Home Internationals.
Waring, a former England boy captain, was sidelined for months
with the shoulder injury, which also forced him out of tournaments
in Australia and Portugal earlier this year. His England Amateur
title last Saturday, over his home course at Bromborough,
came just weeks after he regained full fitness following a
wrist injury.
Crampton, 33, the Deputy Championship Secretary with the
English Golf Union, earns his first cap after a win in the
Chiberta Grand Prix in France in 2004. This year has also
proved successful with Crampton finishing joint runner-up
in the Brabazon Trophy and eighth in the Berkshire Trophy.
A former England youth international and four-times Lincolnshire
champion, he is also a member of the England B training squad.
Cryer, 30, from Warwickshire, has been a frequent winner
in Midland events and is the current Midland Amateur champion.
Last year he won the Czech Republic Amateur Championship and
helped England win the Nations Cup in the same event. His
performances in 2005 have been equally impressive, finishing
runner-up in the Portuguese Amateur, fourth in the Selborne
Salver and Lytham Trophy and ninth in the Berkshire Trophy
prior to his Midland Amateur victory.
Richardson, at the age of 37, will be the second oldest in
the team and his call-up comes after a highly successful spell
in which he has become a major force in the UK.
The son of former England test cricketer Peter Richardson,
Edward was at college in the United States between 1987 and
1991. He has been a power on the Kent county scene for the
past five years, topping the Order of Merit in 2003 and 2004
and knows the Royal St George’s course well. He helped
Southern Valley win the EGU Champion Club title in 2003 and
this year he has won the West of England Strokeplay Championship,
finished tied fourth in the Berkshire Trophy, fifth in the
Tillman Trophy and eleventh and twelfth respectively in the
Brabazon and Lytham Trophies.
Dinwiddie, 22, has just graduated from Tennessee State University
in Nashville after four years, during which he has won a string
of tournaments on the college circuit. A former Durham Boys
champion, under 16 international, and the 2004 Northern Counties
champion, Dinwiddie finished tied eighth in the St Andrews
Links Trophy and helped Durham win the Northern Qualifier
for last year’s English County Championship in which
they eventually finished third.
This year in the UK alone he again finished tied eighth in
the St Andrews Links Trophy, won both the Scottish and Welsh
Open Strokeplay Championships in successive weeks, which earned
him a place in the Walker Cup team for this month’s
matches in Chicago.
Sixteen-year-old Fisher, who will be the youngest ever Walker
Cup player in Chicago, is one of the finest prospects to emerge
in English golf in recent times. He has achieved a string
of successes in the past two years culminating in his Walker
Cup call-up.
His successes prior to 2005 include victories in the English
Under 16 Championship, the Lagonda and Douglas Johns Trophies,
the Essex men’s and boys Championships. He has also
been capped at under 16 and boys levels. He was a member of
the team that won the European Boys Team Championship in Finland
last year, was runner-up in the R&A Junior Championship
and represented Europe in the Junior Ryder Cup last September.
This year, Fisher has finished joint runner-up in the Brabazon
Trophy, reached the semi-finals of the Amateur and English
Amateur Championships and represented England in the World
Boys Team Championships in Japan prior to helping England
triumph in the European Men‘s Team Championship at Hillside.
Gee, 24, made his full England debut against France at Royal
St George’s last year following a semi-final place in
the Portuguese Amateur. He played his part in England’s
Home Internationals triumph at Prestwick and helped Surrey
win the County Championship. Last winter he reached the quarter
finals of the South African Amateur and finished runner-up
in the South African Strokeplay Championship. Earlier this
year he played in the England side against Spain in Madrid
in April. On the domestic front, Gee finished joint runner-up
in the Berkhamsted Trophy, fifth in the Lytham Trophy before
winning the Berkshire Trophy.
It is third time lucky for Moul, 20, the current Suffolk
champion, who has been reserve for the last two Home Internationals.
He was another capped for the first time against France at
Royal St George’s last year, gained a recall for the
match with Spain in April and was a member of the triumphant
European Men‘s Team Championship squad. Has enjoyed
a successful year, finishing fourth in the West of England
Strokeplay, tied sixth in the Brabazon Trophy and runner-up
in the St Andrews Links Trophy.
Having been successful as a boy cap, Ruth, 20, made his full
debut against France at Royal St George’s last year
as a replacement for the injured Ross Fisher and then took
Waring’s place in the 2004 Home Internationals. Ruth
enjoyed a successful 2004 in which he won the Berkhamsted
Trophy, helped his club, Tavistock, win the English Champion
Club title, then played for Devon in the County Finals at
Worksop. This year he has played against Spain in April and
finished third in the Berkshire Trophy.
Tiley, who will be 23 two days after the Home Internationals,
is attending Georgia State University in Atlanta for whom
he has a fine record. A past winner of the Lagonda Trophy
and the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup, he made his England
debut in last year’s Home Internationals. Tiley has
also played against Spain this year before playing his part
in winning the European Men’s Team Championship.
Wolstenholme, who will be 45 on 21st August, has been selected
for every Home Internationals since 1988. He is England’s
most capped player with 183 matches to his credit. A prolific
winner of titles down the years, which include two Amateur
Championships, he will be making his sixth Walker Cup appearance
in Chicago in a couple of weeks.
The full England team is:
James Crampton (Spalding), Matthew Cryer (Coventry), Robert
Dinwiddie (Barnard Castle), Oliver Fisher (West Essex), Adam
Gee (Leatherhead), Jamie Moul (Stoke-by-Nayland), Edward Richardson
(Southern Valley), James Ruth (Tavistock), Steven Tiley (Royal
Cinque Ports), Paul Waring (Bromborough) and Gary Wolstenholme
(Kilworth Springs).
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