TEENAGE TRIO SET TO COMPETE IN SWEDEN
 Luke
Joy, Nicholas McCarthy and Dale Whitnell, who all finished
in the top ten in the recent Peter McEvoy Trophy, have been
selected to represent the English Golf Union in the Skandia
Junior Open in Sweden at the end of this month.
It will the first taste of overseas action with the EGU for
all three and the championship, which also has a girls competition
and is open to players born between 1985 and 1993, is being
played at the Boras Golf Club, near Gothenburg on 26th - 28th
May.
Whitnell, 17, (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward)
from the Forrester Park club near Maldon in Essex, finished
joint second in the McEvoy and was the Essex Boys champion
in 2004. Last year he finished runner-up in the county event
and he has also seen considerable success in the Faldo Series.
McCarthy, 18, from the Moortown club in Leeds, was sixth
in the McEvoy at Copt Heath, five strokes behind the winner,
and was a member of Yorkshire’s victorious team in last
year’s Boys County Championships at Little Aston.
Joy, from the Broadstone club in Dorset, joint ninth in the
McEvoy after a closing 69, won the South of England Boys Championship
last year and will be hoping for a happy return as he will
celebrate his 18th birthday the day prior to the championship.
The Skandia Junior Open is a 54-hole tournament with a cut
after two rounds, the leading 48 players and ties going on
to contest the final round.
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