JONATHAN PLAXTON APPOINTED ENGLAND CAPTAIN
Former international Jonathan Plaxton has been appointed
England Captain and will take up his duties following the
EGU’s Annual Meeting on 21st February.
Plaxton, 45, from York, will be at the helm for two years
and succeeds Yorkshire-based Scot Cecil Bloice, who stepped
down last autumn after four years as captain.
"It is a great honour to be asked to captain your country
in the sport that I have always been passionate about,”
he says.
“When I was asked it came as a complete surprise. I
hadn’t anticipated it and it had never crossed my mind
that I might be given the opportunity. But I am delighted
and looking forward to getting into the job.”
His first time in charge is expected to be the international
with Spain at Royal Ashdown Forest in Sussex on 12th and 13th
May.
A former Yorkshire Youths, Amateur and Open champion, Plaxton
has a distinguished amateur career. He took up golf at Scarborough
North Cliff in 1970 aged nine and is accustomed to captaincy.
He was in charge of England schoolboys in 1978 and was capped
at all levels for the next seven years.
He was a full international for England between 1983 and
‘85, winning 13 of his 23 matches. He also made 87 appearances
for Yorkshire over a ten year period from 1978. He won the
Carris Trophy (the English Boys Under 18 Championship) in
1978 and the Berkshire Trophy in 1984. He also qualified to
play in the 1982 and ‘83 Open Championships.
Off the course, Plaxton captained his club Fulford in 2003,
is a director of the club and in 2006 was chairman of the
Centenary Committee. He is currently captain and secretary
of the Ex-England Internationals Golf Society.
Although born in Aylesbury, Bucks, Plaxton has lived in Yorkshire
for almost 40 years and regards himself, like Bloice, as an
adopted Yorkshireman. He is married to Debbie and has two
sons Josh (11) and Ben (9).
He works as a senior relationship manager with Lombard, part
of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group.
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