PEPPERELL AND SHARPE AIM TO BE EUROPEAN MASTERS
 Two
of the country’s brightest prospects, Eddie Pepperell
(Drayton Park) and Oscar Sharpe (Minchinhampton), will represent
England in the European Young Masters tournament at Golf de
Bondues in France on 26th - 28th July.
Both are members of the EGU’s training squads, Pepperell
(pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward) of the under
18s while Sharpe is included in the under 16s, and both will
be heading for France after representing England in the European
Boys Team Championships in Denmark next week.
Pepperell, 16, from BB&O, won the English Under 14 title
in 2005 and was runner-up to Sharpe in last year’s Under
16 Championship. He represented England at under 16 level
before making his debut at boys level in last year’s
Boys Home Internationals.
He played in South Africa earlier this year before losing
a playoff for the Hampshire Hog, finishing tied fourth in
the McEvoy Trophy and filling third place in the individual
rankings in the recent South East Boys Qualifying at Sheringham.
Sharpe, who wont be 15 until September, is one of the youngest
players ever to represent England at boys level, having made
his debut for the under 16 team in last year’s match
with Spain at Heswell.
The Gloucestershire lad had a triumphant 2006, winning the
under 14, 15 and 16 national titles as well as the Douglas
Johns Trophy and the North of England Boys Championship. He
also won the Gloucestershire under 15, 16 and 18 titles.
The Millfield Schoolboy has enjoyed top-ten finishes in the
Selborne and Hampshire Salvers and the McEvoy Trophy this
year before winning the Ashton Vase at Long Ashton recently
The European Young Masters includes a girls competition -
ELGA is sending Alex Peters from Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire’s
Helen Searle - with a Nations Cup covering both, three of
the four cards each day to count.
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