MARMION AND WOOD HEAD DOWN MEXICO WAY
 Dale
Marmion and Chris Wood, both members of the England ‘A’
squad, will represent the English Golf Union in the annual
Mexican Amateur Championship and International Pairs Tournament
at the Mexico City Country Club on 29th March - 1st April.
Both players have been elevated to the ‘A’ squad
this year after making marked progress in 2006.
Marmion (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward), who
will turn 22 on 6th March, played in a host of events last
year, finishing eighth in both the West of England Stroke
Play Championship and the Tillman Trophy. The Delamere Forest
member was also fourth in the Cheshire Championship and finished
runner-up in the Cheshire Order of Merit.
Wood, 19, from the Long Ashton club in Bristol, is the current
Gloucestershire champion, having previously held the county
junior title. He was also South West Counties boys and match
play champion in 2005, the year he finished fifth in the Carris
Trophy and represented Gloucestershire in the Boys County
Finals. Besides winning the county championship in 2006, Wood
tied fifth in the South of England Stroke Play, reached the
quarter finals of the Italian Amateur, and was a member of
the Gloucestershire team in the men’s County Finals
at Prince’s.
The Mexican Amateur is played over 72 holes of stroke play
with the International Pairs Tournament running alongside,
the aggregate scores each day of both players
counting.
This will be the fifth occasion that the EGU has sent players
to the event. In 2002 internationals Paul Bradshaw from Lincolnshire
and Warwickshire’s Jamie Elson carried the flag, while
the West Country pair of Ed Butler and Scott Godfrey played
in 2004. Lloyd Campbell from Kent and Lincolnshire’s
David Skinns won the pairs event in 2005, while full internationals
Matt Cryer from Warwickshire and Cheshire’s Paul Waring
finished third in the pairs last year.
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