SUCCESSFUL BOY QUARTET CARRY THE FLAG IN JAPAN
 England
is sending four of its successful Boys Home Internationals
team to compete in the Honda International World Junior Championship
at Wild Duck Country Club in Nikkawa Kamisu City, Japan, on
12th - 14th October.
The quartet is Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall), Matt Haines
(Rochester & Cobham), Gary King (Tyrrells Wood) and Eddie
Pepperell (Drayton Park), all of whom were members of the
victorious England side in the Boys Home Internationals.
Fleetwood has been capped at under 16 level for the past
three years and made his debut at boys level in this year’s
European Boys Team Championships in Denmark. He scored six
points out of six in the Boys Home Internationals and also
represented GB&I against Europe in the Jacques Leglise
Trophy. The Lancastrian has also won the Southport & Ainsdale
Bowl this year while finishing runner-up in the Lancashire
Championship and third in the North of England Under 16 Championship.
Kent-based Haines has burst through this year, winning the
McEvoy Trophy and the English Under 18 Championship for the
Carris Trophy. Also made his boys debut in Denmark and was
selected for the Jacques Leglise Trophy.
King (pictured - photo courtesy of Tom Ward), a member of
Surrey’s winning English County Boys Championship team,
has also been capped at under 16 and boys levels. A former
Surrey under 14 Champion, King is also enjoying a successful
year. He tied first in the south east boys qualifying at Sheringham
and lost a playoff for the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters.
He also reached the quarter finals of the British Boys Championship.
Pepperell, who has also been capped at under 16 level, was
the English under 14 Champion in 2005 and runner-up in the
under 16 Championship last year. That prompted his first boy
cap in last year’s Boys Home Internationals in Scotland.
He has been capped by GB&I in the Jacques Leglise Trophy
this year, finished second in the Hampshire Hog, third in
the South East Boys Qualifying as well as the European Young
Masters in France, fourth in the McEvoy Trophy and was a semi-finalist
in the British Boys.
The format for the tournament is three rounds of stroke play
with the best three scores to count each day.
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