ENGLAND NAME STRONG LINE-UP FOR SPIRIT INTERNATIONAL
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ladies champion Naomi Edwards and fellow international Liz
Bennett will team up with men internationals Gary Boyd and
John Parry (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward) to
represent England in the Spirit International Championship
in Texas later this month.
The Spirit is a biennial event being played at Whispering
Pines, north of Houston, on October 24th - 27th. It will feature
24 countries from six continents, each represented by two
men and two women.
In the 2005 competition England’s Sophie Walker and
Felicity Johnson won the gold medal in the women’s event
and, with Oliver Fisher and Jamie Moul, also took the international
team gold.
Naomi Edwards (Ganton) and Liz Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor)
were in England’s winning Home Internationals team and
are also GB & I internationals. Naomi played in the 2006
Curtis Cup.
Boyd was a member of England’s winning team in last
month's Home Internationals in Ireland while Parry was a member
of the GB&I Walker Cup team, also in Ireland.
Boyd (Cherwell Edge) won the 2006 Asian Pacific title and
finished tied third in the recent European Amateur in Berlin,
while Parry (Harrogate) is the Spanish Amateur and Welsh Open
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