CRYER HEADS TRIO FOR RUSSIAN AMATEUR
England international Matthew Cryer and two talented A Squad
members, Seve Benson and Luke Collins, will represent the
EGU in the 15th Russian Open Amateur Championship at the Le
Meridian Moscow Country Club on 27th - 30th June.
The tournament attracts players from many countries, especially
the former Eastern Bloc nations that are emerging in the game,
but following an invitation from the Russian Golf Federation
this will be the first time the EGU has sent players to the
event.
Cryer, who will also act as team manager, has been a power
in Midlands golf for many years but didn’t make his
England debut until last year’s Home Internationals
at Royal St George’s.
The 31 year old f! rom Coventry has a fine overseas record,
having won the individual title in the Czech Amateur in 2004
and finished runner-up in last year’s Portuguese Amateur
as well as the European Amateur in Belgium. At home, Cryer
who has a Bsc Hons in Geology from St Andrews University,
has won many titles in the Midlands, including the Midland
Closed, the Warwickshire Match Play, and the Midland Open
Amateur Championship.
Benson, an England boy cap, also has a solid record on foreign
soil, having finished runner-up in the Swiss Amateur and fourth
in the German Amateur last year. The 19 year old from the
Wentworth club has also represented Surrey in the last two
county finals, helping them to the title in 2004, and he finished
fifth in this year’s Berkhamsted Trophy.
Collins, 21, from the Mendip Spring club in Somerset, will
be making his first foreign trip for the EGU. The former Millfield
schoolboy has been a member of the A Squad for the ! past
two years and reached the quarter finals of this year’s
Spanish Amateur Championship. He is also a former Somerset
Junior Champion and a regular in his county side that remained
unbeaten in winning the Channel League in 2005.
The Moscow Country Club was Russia’s first and then,
only 18-hole championship course. Situated 40 minutes outside
the capital, it hosted events on the European Challenge Tour
for several years and is now the home of the Cadillac Russian
Open on the main European Tour. Designed by Robert Trent Jones
Jnr, the magnificent par 72 layout is carved out of a pine
forest and measures 7,015 yards.
The Russian Open Amateur, which also has a ladies event running
alongside, is contested over 72 holes of stroke play with
a cut after 54 holes, the leading 45 players and ties going
on to the final round.
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