WINNING TRIO SEEK FURTHER SUCCESS IN CZECH AMATEUR
 Gregg
Blainey, Neil Chaudhuri and Andrew Sullivan, all winners in
the past year, will represent the English Golf Union in the
Czech Amateur Championship at the Astoria Golf Resort at Cihelny
by Karlovy Vary in Western Bohemia on 8th - 11th August.
Blainey, 24, from Berkshire, won the Berkhamsted Trophy at
the end of March and followed that with a third place in the
West of England Stroke Play Championship at Saunton. He also
won the Herts Stag and the Hertfordshire Bowl in 2005 at Moor
Park.
Chaudhuri, 22, (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward)
has enjoyed a string of wins in his home county of Leicestershire
and has proved successful on foreign soil. In 2005, he finished
runner-up in the Spanish Amateur at El Saler and shared the
title in the Peruvian Amateur in Lima when the playoff was
abandoned when they ran out of daylight. He also represented
England in Australia last year as well as finishing tied first
in the Duncan Putter in Wales. This year, he finished fourth
in the Welsh Open Stroke Play.
Sullivan, 20, is a former Warwickshire Boys Champion at match
play and stroke play and won the Midland Champion of Champions
event at Kirby Muxloe in 2005. He also captained Warwickshire
in the English Boys County Finals at Little Aston. Last year,
he won the Warwickshire Open at Coventry, was a member of
his county team in the English County Finals at Prince’s,
and plays No.1 for the county team.
The Czech Amateur is a 72-hole stroke play event with a halfway
cut to the leading 70 players and ties with a further cut
after the third round to the leading 40 players and ties.
There will also be a Nations Cup decided over the opening
two rounds with the best two scores from three to count.
EGU trio: Gregg Blainey (Bearwood Lakes), Neil Chaudhuri
(The Leicestershire), Andrew Sullivan (Purley Chase).
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