HORSEY INCLUDED IN COSTA BALLENA SQUAD
David Horsey, beaten finalist in the English Amateur Championship
in 2004, is included in a six-strong England team competing
in the Costa Ballena Quadrangular match in Spain at the end
of January.
The 2004 England boys captain Matthew Baldwin, along with
Daniel Denison, Kevin Harper, Jamie Moul and John Parry will
accompany the Cheshire-based Horsey.
The team will face opposition from Finland, Germany and Spain
at Costa Ballena and, as members of England’s Elite
and A squads, will gain invaluable international competition
in preparation for the coming season.
Horsey’s career reached a new level when he battled
through to the final of the English Amateur last July. In
a run of seven matches he won over Midlands Youth champion
James Ruebotham, fellow England B Squad member William Bowe
and Brabazon Trophy winner Matthew Richardson among others.
In the final, Horsey lost the first five holes to international
James Heath but mounted a spirited fight back to eventually
lose 3 and 2.
Baldwin, 18, last year captained England squads to victory
in the European Boys Team Championships in Finland as well
as the Boys Home Internationals. The Lancashire champion finished
third in the Carris Trophy, carded a course record 13 under
par 61 in winning the Silver Pheasant at Fairhaven, and is
a former winner of the English under 16 Championship for the
McGregor Trophy. He is also a member of the 2005 Walker Cup
squad.
Denison, another 18 year old, helped Yorkshire win the Boys’
County Finals in 2002 and 2003 as well as sharing it with
Essex last year. In a successful 2003 he finished joint winner
of the Carris Trophy, the boys’ under-18 championship
and made his international debut in the European Boys’
Team Championships before playing in the Boys’ Home
Internationals and for GB&I in the Jacques Leglise Trophy.
A member of England’s A squad, Denison played at Costa
Ballena in 2004 as well as in the Peugeot Classic in France
while finishing joint runner-up in the Lagonda Trophy.
Harper, at 23 will be the oldest member of the team visiting
Spain. A member of the England B Squad last year, he has been
promoted to the A Squad for 2005. A former Devon Youths champion,
he lost a play-off for the South West Championship last year,
and has been a member of the Devon side in the past two English
County Championships, with Devon lifting the title in 2003.
Moul, 20, from Suffolk, is a former boy cap who made his
full England debut against France at Royal St George’s,
Sandwich, last May and was a member of the side that finished
runners-up in the European Youths Team Championships in July.
Parry, another 18 year old from Yorkshire, has always been
a top prospect and lived up to that promise last year. His
season started with an outstanding victory in the McEvoy Trophy,
a third place in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and runner-up
position in the Carris Trophy. He also helped England win
the European Boys Team Championships and the Boys Home Internationals
at Portmarnock. Parry also played a part in GB&I’s
victory over Europe in the Jacques Leglise Trophy and helped
Yorkshire share the Boys County Championship with Essex. He
completed a hectic season by finishing second in the Daily
Telegraph Junior Championship at Sun City, then represented
England in the Junior Orange Bowl International in the United
States at Christmas.
The inaugural International Match Costa Ballena Golf in 2001
saw England emerge victorious against Germany, Sweden and
Spain. But for the past two years England have finished runners-up.
The Costa Ballena competition is played on a round robin basis,
each match comprising three morning foursomes and six afternoon
singles.
England Team:
Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale) Daniel Denison (Howley Hall)
Kevin Harper (East Devon)
David Horsey (Styal)
Jamie Moul (Stoke-by-Nayland)
John Parry (Harrogate)
Captain and Team Manager – Cecil Bloice Coach –
Graham Walker
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