CRYER AND WOLSTENHOLME CONTEST AUSTRALIAN TOURNAMENTS
 Matthew
Cryer and Gary Wolstenholme, two of England’s most experienced
internationals, will represent the EGU in three successive
Australian tournaments over the coming weeks.
The pair will contest the Avondale Medal over 36 holes at
Avondale Golf Club on 19th January, followed by the 72-hole
Lake Macquarie International at Belmont Golf Club on 24th
- 27th January.
They will then move on to the New South Wales Amateur Championship
incorporating the 72-hole NSW Medal at Pennant Hills and North
Ryde Golf Clubs on 2nd - 4th February with the leading 32
players qualifying for the match play at nearby Ryde-Parramatta
Golf Club on 6th - 10th February.
The pair made the same trip a year ago when Cryer finished
tied second at Avondale and reached the quarter finals of
the NSW Match Play. Wolstenholme was fifth in the NSW Amateur
and will defend the match play title after his 2 and 1 victory
over Australian Tim Stewart at Terrey Hills, having been beaten
in the 2006 final.
Cryer, 32 (pictured - photo courtesy of Tom Ward), from Coventry,
a prolific winner in the Midlands, made his England debut
in the 2005 Home Internationals, the year he finished runner-up
in the Portuguese Amateur and the European Amateur and reached
the quarter finals of the English Amateur. He went a step
further in the 2006 English Amateur and finished runner-up
to Daniel Willett last year.
Among his many other achievements, Cryer finished runner-up
in the 2006 Russian Amateur and reached the semi-finals of
the Italian Amateur that year, while in 2007, apart from his
successful run in the English Amateur, he won the British
Mid Amateur Championship, was runner-up in the Midland Open
Amateur and third in the South of England Stroke Play.
Last year was a memorable time on and off the course for
Wolstenholme, 47, who returned from his Australian success
to reach 200 caps for England before collecting an MBE at
Buckingham Palace.
He also won the European Mid Amateur Championship for the
second successive year, but there were also some lows with
non-selection for the Walker Cup following six previous appearances,
while a back problem kept him out of the English Amateur,
a title he has yet to win.
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