COUPLAND AND THISTLETON CHASE MEXICAN TITLE
David Coupland and Mark Thistleton, both members of the England
‘A’ Squad, will represent the EGU in the annual
Mexican Amateur Championship and International Pairs Tournament
in Mexico City on 27th - 30th March.
 Coupland
(pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward), from the Boston
club in Lincolnshire, who will turn 22 just prior to the championship,
will be making his first overseas trip for the EGU. Included
in the England ‘A’ Squad for the first time this
year, he is a regular county player, who enjoyed some fine
performances in 2007. He played in the Open Championship at
Carnoustie after winning his Final Qualifying stage at Monifieth
while he also finished tied third individual in the Midland
Qualifying for the English County Championship. A fourth place
was also secured in the Lincolnshire Championship and equal
seventh in the North of England Youth Championship.
Thistleton, from Hayling Golf Club, is a former Hampshire
Champion and the winner of the Lagonda Trophy in 2006. Like
Coupland, he is a newcomer to the England ‘A’
Squad following a successful 2007. He won the Selborne Salver
after a playoff, qualified second in the Amateur Championship
and made a solid defence of the Lagonda Trophy by finishing
tied third. He also represented the EGU in the Finnish Amateur
and Hampshire in the County Championship finals.
The Mexican Amateur is played over 72 holes of stroke play
with the International Pairs Tournament running alongside,
the aggregate scores each day of both players counting.
This will be the sixth occasion that the EGU has sent players
to the event but the title has yet to be brought back to England.
Kent’s Lloyd Campbell and David Skinns from Lincolnshire
won the pairs event in 2005, while full internationals Matt
Cryer from Warwickshire and Cheshire’s Paul Waring finished
third in the pairs in 2006.
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