SKINNS AND CAMPBELL HEAD DOWN MEXICO WAY
David Skinns and Lloyd Campbell, both at college in the United
States, have been selected to represent the English Golf Union
in the Mexican Amateur Championship and the International
Pairs Tournament at the Club Campestre de la Cuidad de Mexico
in Mexico City on 9th - 13th March.
Skinns, 23, a member of Lincoln Golf Club, has been on the
international scene since 1998 and has been capped by England
at all levels. He enjoyed a distinguished junior career during
which he won the Lincolnshire Championship, the Lagonda Trophy
and the Midland Youths Championship and finished runner-up
in the British Boys Championship in 2000.
He helped England twice win the Boys Home Internationals
and to regain the men’s Home Internationals on his debut
at Woodhall Spa in 2001. He has enjoyed considerable success
while at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and has
returned to represent England in various internationals. He
also played in the 2003 Palmer Cup at Kiawah Island.
Kent-based Campbell, also at Tennessee, has yet to earn international
honours. However, the 20 year old from the Rochester &
Cobham club has been prominent in his county, winning the
Kent Championship in 2002.
That same year he also topped the county’s Order of
Merit and was a member of the Kent team that finished runners-up
in the Boys County Championships. He finished third behind
the champion and county colleague Steven Tiley in the Lagonda
Trophy in 2003 and won through the qualifying stages to play
in last year’s Open Championship at Royal Troon.
This will be the third occasion that the EGU has sent players
to the Mexican event. In 2002 internationals Paul Bradshaw
from Lincolnshire and Warwickshire’s Jamie Elson carried
the flag, while the West Country pair of Ed Butler and Scott
Godfrey competed last year.
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