UNDER 18 SQUAD HEAD FOR WARM WEATHER TRAINING IN SPAIN
As part of England’s progressive training programme
for the country’s best young golfers, the EGU are, for
the first time, taking the entire under 18 Boys Squad to Spain
for Warm Weather Training. The trip will give players a concentrated
period on consistently good greens and fairways and provide
the England team with a kick-start to the season’s matches
and tournaments.
All 16 players, the cream of the country’s young talent,
will attend the Training Camp at Sotogrande in Andalusia from
13th – 18th March. They will be accompanied by coaches
Paul Ashwell, Graham Walker and Stephen Rolley and physiotherapist
Lynn Booth along with two further EGU development staff.
The Camp will be based at the Almenara Golf Academy where
coaching will be held while the squad will play over the Almenara
and La Reserva courses. Apart from regular coaching sessions,
the players will take part in skill challenges and fitness
regimes during the six-day stay as well as playing either
nine or eighteen holes of golf each day. There will also be
evening reviews of each day’s activities.
The squad contains several players capped at under 16 level
as well as some boy caps. These include 16 year old Oliver
Fisher from Essex, the current holder of the McGregor and
Lagonda Trophies and a member of the 2005 Walker Cup squad.
Also in the England party is Stephen Capper from Cheshire,
who finished third in both the McEvoy Trophy and the Daily
Telegraph Junior Championship last year, and Hertfordshire’s
Thomas Haylock, third in last year’s Turkish Amateur.
Ben Parker, based in Germany, who won the European Young
Masters in 2003 and helped England win the European Boys Team
Championships and the Boys Home Internationals last year,
is also travelling, as is Tom Oliver from Nottingham, who
reached the last 16 of the 2004 English Amateur Championship.
Three members of the Yorkshire side that tied with Essex
for the Boys County Championship last year, Matthew Evans,
Adam Hodkinson and Dale Smith, are others in the party along
with Lancashire’s Ian Winstanley, the 2001 England under
14 champion.
The full England party for Spain is:
Jake Amos (Birstall)
Adam Birdseye (Hazlemere)
Steven Capper (Caldy)
Matthew Evans (Rotherham)
Oliver Fisher (West Essex)
Thomas Haylock (The Hertfordshire)
Adam Hodkinson (Dore & Totley)
Sam Hutsby (Lee-on-Solent)
Tony Mitchell (Redbourn)
Tom Oliver (Radcliffe on Trent)
Ben Parker (Gut Waldhof)
Thomas Sherreard (Chart Hills)
Dale Smith (Saltburn)
James Watts (East Herts)
Daniel Willett (Bondhay)
Ian Winstanley (Formby)
Lynn Booth, Physiotherapist
Paul Ashwell, Junior Lead Coach
Graham Walker and Stephen Rolley, Regional Coaches
David Basham, EGU Chairman of Coaching
Dr Frank Harkins, EGU Junior Golf Representative
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