CHAUDHURI AND STEELE SEEK MORE DOWN UNDER SUCCESS
Following the recent successes of Adam Gee and Gary Wolstenholme
in Australia, the English Golf Union is sending two more golfers
down under next month in search of more titles.
 Neil
Chaudhuri (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward) and
Robert Steele will contest the Australian Amateur Foursomes
Championship on 8th March at Riversdale Golf Club near Melbourne,
followed by the 111th Riversdale Cup over 72 holes, also at
Riversdale on 10th - 13th March and the Australian Amateur
Championship at Royal Hobart and Tasmania Golf Clubs on 23rd
- 29th March.
Both are members of the England A training squad and Chaudhuri
has already achieved success on foreign fields. The Leicestershire-based
21 year old finished joint winner of the Peruvian Amateur
Championship last year in Lima after a shortened playoff when
he and Mario Maya of Venezuela ran out of daylight and shared
the title. Chaudhuri was also runner-up in last year's Spanish
Amateur at El Saler and is a former Leicestershire Amateur
champion and Midland Order of Merit winner.
Steele, 22, is also from the Midlands and qualified for the
Open Championship last year. In 2004, the Kenilworth golfer
won the Midland Open Amateur and in 2005 recorded high finishes
in the Berkhamsted and Berkshire Trophies, the South of England
Stroke Play, and the Finnish Amateur Championship in Helsinki
when representing the EGU.
The Riversdale Cup, over 72 holes stroke play, is one of
Australia's premier amateur events, having started in 1896.
An international team championship will run concurrently with
the main event.
The Australian Amateur, over 72 holes of stroke play, is
the country's oldest championship, having been inaugurated
in 1894. In the Medal competition, players will contest a
round each over the Royal Hobart and Tasmania courses on the
first two days with a halfway cut to the leading 100 players
and ties. The third round will be at Tasmania and the final
day at Royal Hobart. The top 32 players after 72 holes will
qualify for the match play knockout stages, each match over
18 holes with the final over 36 holes.
The only English winner of the Australia title in recent
years has been Warren Bennett in 1994, while other past champions
include Michael Campbell, Greg Chalmers and Matthew Goggin.
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