Willett to tackle Dutch tournament
 Daniel
Willett, who has enjoyed a first season at college in the
United States, has been selected along with Ben Evans and
James Smith to represent the EGU in the Riverwoods Junior
Open in Holland on 19th - 22nd July.
Willett, 18, from the Rotherham club (pictured - photo courtesy
of Tom Ward), has had two runners-up finishes and a third
place in his freshman year of a scholarship at Jacksonville
State University.
Prior to going to America, he enjoyed a successful 2005,
representing England in the World Boys Team Championships
in Japan, the European Boys Team Championships in Italy, and
was in the winning team in the Boys Home Internationals. He
also finished third in the McEvoy and Tillman Trophies, joint
second in the Carris Trophy, and reached the quarter finals
of the British Boys.
Evans, 19, from Rye in Sussex, won the Sunningdale Foursomes
with Danielle Masters in March and has followed that with
high finishes in the West of England Stroke Play Championship
and the St Andrews Links Trophy. He is a former boy international
and was a member of winning teams in the European Boys Team
Championships in 2004 and the Boys Home Internationals in
2003 and 2004.
Smith, 20, was Kent champion in 2005 and is another former
boy cap. Winner of the Tillman Trophy in 2003, the following
year he was a semi-finalist in the All-India Championship
and a member of the three-man team that won the Nations Cup
for England in the Peugeot Classic in France. Fourth in the
Midland Open Amateur in 2005, he has finished tied sixth in
this year’s West of England Stroke Play Championship
and joint runner-up in the Lagonda Trophy.
The Riverwoods Junior Open, formerly the Dutch Junior International,
is a 72-hole stroke play event to be played at Toxandria Golf
Club near Breda
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