CRYER HEADS A CLASS FIELD FOR CHAMPION CLUB TOURNAMENT
 Matthew
Cryer (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward), the newly-crowned
British Mid-Amateur champion, will be in action among a field
of leading players when the English Champion Club Tournament
is played at Hesketh Golf Club, Lancashire, on 14th - 15th
September.
Cryer, whose victory at Alwoodley came as a consolation following
his defeat in the English Amateur Championship final at Royal
St George’s, will be back in England colours later this
month in the Home Internationals in Ireland. He heads the
Coventry squad at Hesketh against the champion clubs from
the other counties in what promises to be a two-day feast
of golf.
The field also includes several boy and under 16 internationals
as well as a string of tournament winners and county champions.
Boy cap Billy Fowles is included in a strong Wentworth team
than also includes Warren Harmston, while Adam Myers, an under
16 cap for the past three years, his brother Andrew and Adam
Print form the Northants County line-up.
Martin Young, the 2006 English Mid-Amateur Champion, is part
of the Brokenhurst Manor team representing Hampshire while
the Gloucestershire County Champion Oliver Glaze and under
16 cap Chris Lloyd are in the Kendleshire side.
Jason Palmer, winner of the 2006 Italian Amateur Championship,
forms part of the Kirby Muxloe team from Leicestershire, Miles
Mackman, winner of the Lagonda Trophy and a member of the
England under 21 squad, is in the Broome Manor side from Wiltshire,
while veteran Roger Smithies will be representing Manchester
Golf Club.
Workington, the Cumbrian Champions, include William Bowe,
a former England under 16 and youth international and winner
of the Formby Hare this year, while the experienced Richard
Aisbitt and Michael Curry are in the Brancepeth Castle squad
from Durham.
Hawkstone Park, Shropshire & Herefordshire’s Champions
for the second successive year, will rely on youth in the
shape of Billy Mills and Ricky Pharo and experience with Nigel
Chesters, father of under 16 cap Ashley Chesters and joint
winner of the Logan Trophy in 2005.
Perhaps the youngest line-up in the event will be Suffolk
champions Stoke by Nayland with juniors Owen Pearl, Michael
Swan and Liam Brace, a member of the England under 18 squad.
There are three previous winners competing this time, Porters
Park from Hertfordshire, who won the title in 1985, the second
occasion it was played, Brokenhurst Manor (1988) and Coxmoor
(2000).
The Champion Club Tournament is decided on aggregate over
36 holes of stroke play with all three cards to count each
day.
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