NEW CAP PARKER TACKLES ITALIAN AMATEUR
 Ben
Parker, who made his full England debut in last week’s
Home Internationals in Wales, is one of three players selected
to play in the Italian International Amateur Championship
at Villa d’Este Golf Club, near Como, on 13th - 17th
September.
Parker (Royal Birkdale) will be accompanied by James Morrison
(St George’s Hill) and Jason Palmer (Kirby Muxloe).
Parker, 19, (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward)
stepped up to full international level with some success after
being a member of the winning England Boys Home Internationals
sides for the past two years and of the victorious team in
the 2004 European Boys Team Championships. A former winner
of the European Young Masters, he won the prestigious Junior
Orange Bowl in America last Christmas and finished tied third
in the Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship.
Morrison, 21, won the Victorian Open Amateur Championship
in Australia just prior to last Christmas and on the same
trip took top spot at the Tasmanian Open before being named
on the England A Training Squad. He enjoyed a successful 2005,
finishing runner-up in the Surrey Championship, reaching the
semi-finals of the English Amateur Championship, and finishing
fourth in the Finnish Amateur Championship.
This year, Morrison has finished runner-up in the Peruvian
Amateur, runner-up with county colleague Colin Roope in the
Sunningdale Foursomes, second in the Midland Open Amateur
and reached the last 16 of the Amateur Championship. He represented
Surrey in the County Finals at St Enodoc last September and
is expected to do the same this year at Prince‘s later
this month.
Palmer, 21, reached the quarter finals of this year’s
Spanish Amateur and of the Amateur Championship at Royal St
George’s, claiming the scalp of Spanish ace Pablo Martin
on the way. He eventually went out to Jamie Moul in the quarters.
Palmer, who is a student at Birmingham University and is
lying tenth on the PING/EGU Order of Merit, was in the winning
England team in the recent British Universities Home Internationals
and is currently playing for Great Britain in the World University
Championships in Italy.
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