HUTSBY AND WOOD BID TO EXTEND ENGLAND'S RUN IN BUENOS AIRES
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Sam Hutsby and Chris Wood (pictured left - photo courtesy
of Tom Ward) will attempt to maintain England’s fine
record in the event when they represent the EGU in the Juan
Carlos Tailhade Cup in Argentina later this month.
England are the defending champions following the superb
victory by Seve Benson and Ed Richardson at Los Lagartos County
Club in Buenos Aires a year ago.
Hutsby from Hampshire and Gloucestershire’s Wood will
tee off over the same course on 22nd - 25th November and attempt
to bring the title back to England for the fifth time. Benson
and Richardson won by eight strokes last year in this 72-hole,
two-man team event in which both players’ scores count.
Hutsby, 19, England Boy Captain in 2006, has been an international
for the past four years. A former under 16 and boy cap, in
September he made his full England debut in the Home Internationals
in Ireland.
In 2006 he also won the Spanish Amateur and the Duke of York
Young Champions tournament and was third in the Daily Telegraph
Junior Championship. This year he has won the George Henriques
Salver for the best score by a GB&I player aged under
20 in finishing joint fourth in the Brabazon Trophy while
his other victories included the St Mellion International.
Wood, who will turn 20 the day after the Buenos Aires event,
has also shone over the last two years. Victories in his native
Gloucestershire and in the South West at junior level have
been followed by the Gloucestershire Championship last year
and a runner-up spot in 2007.
He also finished fifth in the South of England Stroke Play
last year and was a quarter-finalist in the Italian Amateur.
In 2007 he has won the West of England Stroke Play and the
Russian Amateur, finished runner-up in the South West Championship
and the Tillman Trophy and reached the quarter finals of the
Amateur Championship.
These successes saw him finish No.1 on the PING/EGU Order
of Merit for 2007 and, like Hutsby, he made his full England
debut as a member of the triumphant Home Internationals team.
England’s previous triumphs in the Talihade Cup came
in 2000 with Nick Dougherty and Gary Wolstenholme, in 2001
by Zane Scotland and David Skinns and in 2003 with Gary Lockerbie
and Michael Skelton before last year‘s success.
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