BEST AMONG SIX FOR DUTCH JUNIOR MASTERS
 Adam
Best (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward), a member
of England’s triumphant Boys Home Internationals team,
and under 16 Champion Adam Carson have been named in a six-man
squad to compete in the International Dutch Junior Masters
at Westfriese in Holland on 1st - 2nd September.
The full squad is Jonathan Bell (Royal Blackheath), Tom Berry
(Wentworth), Adam Best (Cleveland), Adam Carson (Long Ashton),
Richard Prophet (Shifnal) and Max Smith (Newbury Racecourse).
Best, 18, the Yorkshire Boys Captain, is enjoying a highly
successful season on the home and international front. A member
of the Yorkshire men’s team, he has, among other successes,
won the Cleveland Salver and the York Rose Bowl and dropped
only half a point from his six matches in the Boys Home Internationals
in Wales.
Carson, 15, from Bristol, won the England Under 16 Championship
for the McGregor Trophy in difficult conditions at Southport
& Ainsdale in July, finishing seven strokes ahead of the
newly-crowned British Boys Champion Emilio Cuartero from Spain.
Last year’s Gloucestershire Youths Champion, Carson
finished runner-up in the recent Douglas Johns Trophy.
Bell, who will turn 16 on the opening day of the Dutch tournament,
was the under 14 Champion in 2004. The Kent player has been
a member of the England under 16 squad for the past two years
but this will be his first overseas assignment in England
colours.
Surrey-based Berry, 16, was runner-up in the Reid Trophy
in 2005 and was that year’s Surrey under 14 Champion.
A member of the England under 16 squad for the past two years,
he represented his county in last year’s Boys County
Finals at Pannal and was a member of the team that finished
third in the Nations Cup at this year’s McGregor Trophy.
Prophet, 18, was a member of the under 16 squad in 2005 and
represented Shropshire and Herefordshire in last year’s
Boys County Finals. This year, he won the Midland Championship,
finished runner-up in the Midland Boys Championship and was
reserve for the Boys Home Internationals.
Smith, 15, is also making his first foreign trip for the
EGU. The Berkshire teenager finished runner-up in the English
Under 16 Championship at Southport & Ainsdale and a creditable
sixth in the Under 18 Championship at Saunton, both in difficult
conditions.
In the Dutch Junior Masters, 36 holes will be played on day
one after which a cut will be made with the survivors playing
the final 36 holes on the following day.
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