August 2007
31st Aug - TORO STAYS ON COURSE WITH THE ENGLISH GOLF UNION
Toro have become the latest industry name to support the
English Golf Union (EGU) through the sponsorship of the EGU’s
Course Rating Manual.
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30th Aug - LANCASHIRE SEEK TO DEFEND BOYS TITLE AT ROYAL
CROMER
Lancashire will hope to successfully defend the trophy when
the English Boys County Finals take place at Royal Cromer
Golf Club, Norfolk, on 3rd - 5th September.
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30th Aug - NEW CAPS IN STRONG TEAM FOR PORTUGAL NATIONS
CUP
England is sending three of the team selected for next month’s
Home Internationals to contest the Portugal Nations Cup at
Vale do Lobo on 1st - 3rd September.
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29th Aug - BEST AMONG SIX FOR DUTCH JUNIOR MASTERS
Adam Best, a member of England’s triumphant Boys Home
Internationals team, and under 16 Champion Adam Carson have
been named in a six-man squad
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28th Aug - EDWARDS' VICTORY BRIDGES 12-YEAR GAP
Colin Edwards, proved he is still a force in the game by
winning the English Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship for
the Logan Trophy in style at Minchinhampton 12 years after
his last national triumph.
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23rd Aug - ENGLAND STRONG IN SINGLES TO BEAT SPAIN
England completed a comprehensive 8½ - 3½ victory
over Spain in their annual under 16 international at Heswall.
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21st Aug - ROY CASE ACCEPTS EGU PRESIDENCY FOR 2009
Roy Case, a champion of junior golf for the past three decades,
has accepted the nomination to become President Elect of the
English Golf Union for the year 2008
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21st Aug - YOUNG DEFENDS LOGAN TROPHY AT MINCHINHAMPTON
Martin Young from Hampshire will defend the title when the
English Open Mid-Amateur Championship for the Logan Trophy
takes place at Minchinhampton Golf Club in Gloucestershire
on 24th - 26th August.
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20th Aug - ENGLAND TEAM MEMBERS CHALLENGE FOR EUROPEAN TITLE
England will make a concerted bid to win the European International
Amateur Championship by selecting nine members of the Home
Internationals team among a group of 16 players
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20th Aug - CONSOLATION AS CRYER WINS BRITISH MID-AMATEUR
Matt Cryer gained consolation for his defeat in the final
of the English Amateur two weeks ago by winning the British
Mid-Amateur Championship at Alwoodley in Leeds.
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20th Aug - TEENAGER BROWN STRIKES GOLD IN THE RAIN
Edward Brown, became the second successive teenager to lift
the title when he won the London Pride EGU Gold Medal on a
wet and windy day at Woodhall Spa.
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19th Aug - Shaw leads at halfway in London Pride EGU Gold
Medal
Gary Shaw from Northumberland is the halfway leader of the
London Pride EGU Gold Medal after scoring 38 Stableford points
over the Bracken Course at Woodhall Spa.
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17th Aug - GAUTIER TAKES REID TROPHY OVERSEAS FOR FIRST
TIME
Stanislas Gautier, from France became the first overseas
player to win the English Boys Under 14 Championship when
he collected the Reid Trophy at Porters Park.
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16th Aug - Surrey Golf Partnership Awarded Funding for Development
The English Golf Union (EGU), English Ladies’ Golf
Association (ELGA) and the PGA are delighted to announce that
England Golf has awarded the Surrey Golf Partnership £30,000
over the next three years to support the development of the
sport within the county.
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16th Aug - CARSON NAMED IN UNDER 16 TEAM TO FACE SPAIN
Adam Carson (Long Ashton), the 2007 English Boys under 16
champion, has been selected along with three more of the country’s
brightest talents to form the England team to face Spain in
the annual one-day under 16 international at Heswall Golf
Club, Cheshire
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15th Aug - ENGLISH CHAMPION WILLETT ONE OF SEVEN NEW CAPS
IN ENGLAND TEAM
Daniel Willett, newly crowned English Champion from Rotherham
Golf Club, is one of seven new caps in the England squad for
the Home Internationals
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15th Aug - PUGH SHOOTS 71 IN THE RAIN TO LEAD REID TROPHY
Persistent rain and a tricky wind presented testing conditions
on the opening day of the English Boys Under 14 Championship.
But it didn’t offer too many problems for Rhys Pugh
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13th Aug - JUNIOR ORGANISERS' WORKSHOPS EXPAND TO COUNTIES
FOLLOWING INITIAL SUCCESS.
In February and March, the EGU and ELGA Development Team
ran a number of pilot workshops at locations across England
to support club staff and volunteers involved in the running
of a junior section.
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13th Aug - ENGLAND REGAIN BOYS HOME INTERNATIONALS CHAMPIONSHIP
Hard on the heels of England’s fine victory in the
Boys Home Internationals in Wales, Luke Collins, Neil Chaudhuri
and Ben Parker rounded off a triumphant week for English amateur
golf
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10th Aug - ENGLAND REGAIN BOYS HOME INTERNATIONALS CHAMPIONSHIP
England regained the Boys Home Internationals Championship
by completing a clean sweep of the other three nations in
a stunning three days of competition at Machnynys Peninsula
in Wales.
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9th Aug - STRONG OVERSEAS CHALLENGE FOR REID TROPHY AT PORTERS
PARK
The English Boys Under 14 Championship has never been won
by a non-British player.
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8th Aug - MORRISON RECALLED FOR EUROPEAN SENIORS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
Andrew Morrison, a retired schoolteacher from Cumbria, has
earned a recall to the England team for the European Men’s
Team Championships at Bled in Slovenia on 15th - 18th August.
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7th Aug - LEWIS, LLOYD AND MYERS OFF TO GERMAN JUNIOR MASTERS
Tom Lewis and Chris Lloyd, runners-up in two recent English
junior championships, and former champion Adam Myers have
been selected
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6th Aug - WILLETT IS CROWNED ENGLISH CHAMPION
Daniel Willett is the new English champion.(Picture ©
Tom Ward) He beat Matthew Cryer 3 and 2 in the 36-hole final
in glorious weather at Royal St George’s, his second
title in little over a week.
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3rd Aug - Cryer faces Willett in the English final
Matthew Cryer, from Coventry will meet Yorkshire’s
Daniel Willett in tomorrow’s 36-hole final of the English
Amateur Championship at Royal St George’s, Sandwich.
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3rd Aug - CRYER LOOKS TO GO ONE BETTER THIS TIME
Over the past two English Amateur Championships Matthew Cryer
has been beaten in the quarter finals and the semi-finals.
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2nd Aug - English Amateur: Internationals Boyd and Moul
make early exits
Matt Haines, the newly crowned English Boy champion, and
the rest of the six-strong side that came so close to winning
the European Boys Team title earlier this month
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1st Aug - English Amateur: Internationals Boyd and Moul
make early exits
There were shocks aplenty when the English Amateur Championship
entered the match play stage at Royal St George’s with
internationals Gary Boyd and Jamie Moul being early casualties.
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1st Aug - NOW BOYD SHOOTS 64 TO LEAD QUALIFIERS
Just 24 hours after Shane Winstone set the record with 64
at Royal Cinque Ports, Gary Boyd, (Picture © Tom Ward)
matched it with 64 of his own to top the qualifiers in the
English Amateur Championship.
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