SHERREARD HEADS TALENTED CARRIS FIELD
Tom Sherreard, newly appointed England Boys captain, will
be among the favourites when the English Boys’ Open
Stroke Play Championship for the Carris Trophy is played over
72 holes at Moor Park Golf Club, Hertfordshire on 19th - 21st
July.
The 18 year old from Kent, who will lead England’s
defence of the Boys Home Internationals at Woodhall Spa next
month, is enjoying a successful season and will be keen to
add his name to the impressive list of former winners that
includes Ken Brown, Sandy Lyle, Peter Baker and Justin Rose.
In recent years, Sherreard has represented his county in
two Boys County Finals, has been capped at under 16 level,
finished runner-up in the British Boys Championship at Conwy
last year and represented England in the Westfriese Young
Masters in the Netherlands and in the Turkish Amateur Championship.
However, the Chart Hills lad achieved his greatest success
this year when he won the Peter McEvoy Trophy at Copt Heath
in April, the South of England Schools title and helped England
to third place in the recent World Boys Team Championships
in Japan.
He will face stiff opposition at Moor Park, not least from
his fellow boy caps Stephen Capper (Caldy), Matthew Evans
(Rotherham), Tom Oliver (Notts), Daniel Willett (Rotherham)
and Jake Amos (Kilworth Springs), who he pipped for the McEvoy
title.
Also in the field are James Watts (East Herts), winner of
the recent Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters, his county team-mate
Thomas Haylock (The Hertfordshire), Jamie Abbott (Fynn Valley),
the Suffolk Match Play champion, and Thomas Shadbolt, the
Hertfordshire county champion.
Once again the tournament has attracted a class field including
players from Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Holland,
Norway, Qatar, Spain, and Switzerland.
Of the 132-strong field, which will be reduced to the leading
45 and ties after 36 holes, 107 have a handicap of scratch
or better.
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