ENGLAND DUO CHASE TITLE IN AUSTRALIA
Walker Cup man Robert Dinwiddie and new England international
Matthew Cryer are in Australia to represent the EGU in the
Federal Amateur Open Championship.
The 72-hole stroke play event is being played at the Federal
Golf Club in the capital, Canberra, on 30th September to 3rd
October.
Dinwiddie, 22, graduated this summer from Tennessee State
University in Nashville after four years, during which he
has won a string of tournaments on the college circuit.
A former Durham Boys champion, under 16 international, and
the 2004 Northern Counties champion, Dinwiddie helped Durham
win the Northern Qualifier for last year’s English County
Championship in which they finished third.
This year he has won both the Scottish and Welsh Open Strokeplay
Championships in successive weeks, which earned him a place
in the Walker Cup team for the matches in Chicago.
Cryer, 30, from Warwickshire, has been a frequent winner
in Midland events and is the current Midland Amateur champion.
Last year he won Czech Republic Amateur Championship and helped
England win the Nations Cup in that event.
His performances in 2005 have been equally impressive, finishing
runner-up in the Portuguese Amateur, fourth in the Selborne
Salver and Lytham Trophy and ninth in the Berkshire Trophy
prior to his Midland Amateur victory.
Prior to making his England debut alongside Dinwiddie in
the recent Home Internationals at Royal St George’s,
Sandwich, Cryer finished runner-up in the European Amateur
Championship in Belgium.
The Federal Amateur Open Championship will host an international
field of 160 players. There will be a cut after 36 holes,
the leading 60 and ties qualifying for the final two rounds.
Federal Golf Club web-site: www.fgc.com.au
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