ENGLAND PICK STRONG TRIO FOR EISENHOWER TROPHY
 English
champion Ross McGowan and fellow internationals Oliver Fisher
and Jamie Moul, will represent England in the World Amateur
Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy in South Africa
next month.
All three were members of the England team that finished
second in last week’s Home Internationals in Wales and
they will now prepare for the Eisenhower being played at De
Zalze and Stellenbosch Golf Clubs near Cape Town on 26th -
29th October.
McGowan (pictured left with Jamie Moul - photo courtesy of
Tom Ward) won the English title at Burnham and Berrow last
month after eliminating Moul in the semi-finals and then recording
a 5 and 4 victory over Fisher in the 36-final. It was McGowan’s
first significant victory of 2006 after five runners-up spots.
His playing record throughout the year has catapulted him
into a clear lead at the top of the PING EGU Order of Merit
and also earned him his first England cap at this year’s
Home Internationals at Pyle and Kenfig.
The 24 year old from Surrey finished runner-up in the Berkhamsted
Trophy, the West of England Stroke Play, Brabazon Trophy,
Scottish Stroke Play and the South of England Stroke Play
where he was the defending champion after winning the inaugural
event last year.
Fisher became the youngest ever GB&I Walker Cup player
last September when just short of his 17th birthday. This
came after a successful 2005 in which he reached the semi-finals
of the Amateur Championship and the English Amateur and helped
England win the European Men’s Team Championships at
Hillside on his debut. Fisher, partnered by Moul, also won
the Spirit International in America as well as the Duke of
York Champions Trophy and the Daily Telegraph Junior Championship.
This year, the Essex teenager finished runner-up in the South
African Stroke Play Championship, won the St Andrews Links
Trophy and helped England to third place in the European Youths
Team Championships.
Moul, who will turn 22 later this month, has enjoyed considerable
success at home and abroad both before and after making his
full England debut against France at Royal St George’s
in 2004. A former boy cap, he was also a member of England’s
victorious European Men’s Team Championships squad at
Hillside last year, finished runner-up in the St Andrews Links
Trophy and was named as first reserve for the Walker Cup.
Since his Spirit International win with Fisher last autumn,
the former Suffolk champion has enjoyed a successful 2006,
winning the Lytham Trophy, finishing third in the Brabazon
Trophy and reaching the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship
as well as the English Amateur.
All three players were members of the GB&I team that
beat the Continent of Europe for the St Andrews Trophy in
the Czech Republic two week s ago.
Great Britain and Ireland last won the Eisenhower Trophy
in Chile in 1998 but following the decision by the four Home
Countries to send separate teams, England have finished seventh
in Kuala Lumpur in 2002 and eighth in Puerto Rico two years
ago.
The last three contests have been won by the United States.
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