FIVE NEWCOMERS IN EGU ELITE SQUAD
There are five newcomers in the latest review of Elite Squad
players released by the English Golf Union.
They are Matthew Cryer, Robert Dinwiddie, David Horsey, John
Parry and Edward Richardson. Jamie Moul has been selected
again after a years absence.
The rest of the squad is: Matthew Baldwin, Adam Gee, James
Ruth, Paul Waring and Gary Wolstenholme.
Four players, Cryer, Horsey, Moul and Parry, have been promoted
from last year's A Squad.
Oliver Fisher, as a TASS (Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme)
2012 athlete, has been invited to participate in all aspects
of the Elite Squad coaching, the first session of which was
held at The National Golf Centre, Woodhall Spa, last week.
Dinwiddie, Fisher and Wolstenholme were members of the 2005
Walker Cup team that lost the trophy narrowly in Chicago in
August, while the squad includes eight of the side that finished
runners-up in the Home Internationals at Royal St George's
last month.
Baldwin, 19, is a former under 16 and boy international who
captained England to victory in the European Boys Team Championships
as well as the Boys Home Internationals last year. He is also
a former English under 16 champion and Lancashire champion.
Cryer, 30, the current Midland Amateur champion, made his
England debut in the Home Internationals and was runner-up
in the European Amateur Championship in Belgium. Last year
he won Czech Republic Amateur Championship and this year he
has finished runner-up in the Portuguese Amateur and fourth
in the Selborne Salver and Lytham Trophy.
Dinwiddie, 22, won the Scottish and Welsh Open Strokeplay
Championships in successive weeks this summer, having graduated
from Tennessee State University where he enjoyed considerable
success. He is also a former Durham boy champion, under 16
cap, and the 2004 Northern Counties champion.
Gee, 24, made his full England debut against France last
year following a semi-final place in the Portuguese Amateur
and also helped England win the Home Internationals. Last
winter he reached the quarter finals of the South African
Amateur and finished runner-up in the South African Strokeplay
Championship. This year he was in the England side that played
against Spain, finished joint runner-up in the Berkhamsted
Trophy, fifth in the Lytham Trophy before winning the Berkshire
Trophy.
Horsey, 20, a former North of England Schools champion, came
to national attention when he finished runner-up in last year's
English Amateur Championship at Hollinwell. This year his
career has blossomed with victory in the Cheshire Championship
followed by his recent triumph in the English County Champions
tournament at Woodhall Spa in which he shot 64, breaking the
Hotchkin Course record by two strokes. In September he also
won the Greek Amateur Championship with a 72 hole six under
par aggregate of 282.
Moul, 21, the current Suffolk champion, was capped for the
first time against France at Royal St George's last year as
a member of the Elite Squad but then lost his place. After
being a reserve for two successive Home Internationals he
was recalled for the international with Spain in April and
was a member of the triumphant European Men's Team Championship
squad in July. Also this year he has finished fourth in the
West of England Strokeplay, tied sixth in the Brabazon Trophy
and runner-up in the St Andrews Links Trophy. Moul also played
in last month's Home Internationals and was a reserve for
the Walker Cup.
Parry, 18, has been a prominent player for Yorkshire and
England for the past four years. A former winner of the under
18 title in the North of England Youths Championship, last
year, he won the McEvoy Trophy, finished runner-up in the
English Boys under 18 Championship and was a member of the
England teams that won the European Boys Team Championship
and the Boys Home Internationals. He also helped Yorkshire
share the Boys County title and GB&I triumph over the
Continent of Europe in the Jacques Leglise Trophy while finishing
second in the Daily Telegraph Junior Championship in Sun City,
South Africa. This year, Parry has won the Danish Amateur
and the Yorkshire Championship and finished fourth in the
South of England Strokeplay and the English County Champions
tournament.
Richardson, 37, made his international debut in the recent
Home Internationals at Royal St George's. The son of former
England Test cricketer Peter Richardson, he has been prominent
on the Kent county scene for the past five years, topping
the Order of Merit in 2003 and 2004. 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 11th and 12th respectively in the Brabazon and
Lytham Trophies.
A former boy cap, Ruth, 20, made his full England debut against
France in 2004 and also played in the Home Internationals
in the same year. In a successful 2004 he also won the Berkhamsted
Trophy, helped his club, Tavistock, win the English Champion
Club title, and then played for Devon in the County Finals.
In 2005 he has finished third in the Berkshire Trophy, reached
the last 16 of the English Amateur, then won the St Mellion
International. He also played against Spain in April and in
the recent Home Internationals.
Waring, 20, crowned English champion in July, made a belated
full England debut in the recent Home Internationals after
being dogged by injury for most of the previous year. A former
England boy captain and McGregor Trophy winner, he finished
runner-up in the Duncan Putter in 2004 and should have made
his full England debut in the Home Internationals in the same
year but sustained a shoulder problem, which forced him to
withdraw from that as well as subsequent tournaments in Australia
and Portugal.
Wolstenholme is England's most capped player and at 45 is
still a major force in amateur golf. Has played in six Walker
Cups and four Eisenhower Trophies.
Fisher, just turned 17, was the youngest ever Walker Cup
player in Chicago and is one of the finest prospects to emerge
in recent times. He has achieved a string of successes in
the past two years and prior to 2005 these include victories
in the English Under 16 Championship, the Lagonda Trophy,
and 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 year.
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.
"Our policy is to pick the best England teams irrespective
of whether a player is able or wants to commit to the coaching
programme," says Anthony Abraham, Chairman of England
Selectors. "The fact that players are not included in
the squad does not preclude them from being selected for England
in the future."
The Elite Squad, which is constantly reviewed, forms the
centrepiece of the World Class Performance Programme, which
as part of the England Golf Partnership's 'Team England Golf'
aims to identify, train and produce the best golfers in the
world.
Elite Squad
Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale, Lancashire)
Matthew Cryer (Coventry, Warwickshire)
Robert Dinwiddie (Barnard Castle, Durham)
Oliver Fisher - By Invitation (West Essex, Essex)
Adam Gee (Leatherhead, Surrey)
David Horsey (Styal, Cheshire)
Jamie Moul (Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk)
John Parry (Harrogate, Yorkshire)
Ed Richardson (Southern Valley, Kent)
James Ruth (Tavistock, Devon)
Paul Waring (Bromborough, Cheshire)
Gary Wolstenholme (Kilworth Springs, Leicestershire)
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