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.
Ben Evans and Chris Wood were named as new England caps for
the Home Internationals in Ireland and they will be joined
in Portugal by Ben Parker (pictured left - photo courtesy
of Tom Ward), all three having just returned from the European
Amateur Championship in Germany.
Evans (Rye), 20, has been on the international scene since
2001. Capped at under 16 and boys levels, he won the Sunningdale
Foursomes with Danielle Masters in 2006 when he also finished
third in the Riverswood Junior Open in Holland and in the
South of England Stroke Play. This year, the Rye golfer reached
the quarter finals of the Spanish Amateur, had top-ten finishes
in the Berkhamsted and Berkshire Trophies and in the Welsh
Open Stroke Play, was runner-up in the South of England Stroke
Play, and finished tied third in the European Amateur in Berlin.
Wood (Long Ashton), 19, has claimed victories in his native
Gloucestershire and in the South West at junior level followed
by the Gloucestershire Championship last year and a runner-up
spot in 2007. On the national and international front, he
was a quarter-finalist in the Italian Amateur last year and
finished fifth in the South of England Stroke Play. In 2007
he has won the West of England Stroke Play, finished runner-up
in the South West Championship and the Tillman Trophy, reached
the quarter finals of the Amateur Championship and last week
finished seventh in Berlin. In June this year Wood also won
the Russian Amateur, which allowed him to play in the Russian
Open, a European Tour event, where he made the cut.
Parker (Royal Birkdale), 20, is a former under 16 and boy
international, who made his full England debut in last year’s
Home Internationals in Wales. This year the Germany-based
player has enjoyed top-ten finishes in the Brabazon and Lytham
Trophies as well as the Scottish Open Stroke Play and recently
won the German Amateur Championship.
A total of 14 European nations will compete over 54 holes
of stroke play on the Ocean Course at Vale do Lobo, the best
two scores from three each day to count. There will also be
an individual prize.
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