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		<title>Ben Schmidt on the trail of The Amateur crown and place in Masters and Open</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>YORKSHIRE’S Benjamin Schmidt comfortably advanced in his quest to win The 125th Amateur Championship. Taking on Germany’s Brandon Dietzel, Schmidt – the highest ranked player in the field at No. 35 on the World Amateur Golf Ranking – recorded a 3&#38;2 victory across the famed Royal Birkdale links. The 18-year-old, from Rotherham GC, will meet [&#8230;]</p>
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<div id="attachment_8865" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Ben-Schmidt-BA.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-8865" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Ben-Schmidt-BA-1024x683.jpg" alt="Rotherham Golf Club’s Ben Schmidt playing in the second round of the 2020 Amateur Championship at Royal Birkdale" width="1024" height="683" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Yorkshire’s Benjamin Schmidt knocked out Brandon Dietzel winning 3&amp;2 in the second round of the 2020 Amateur Championship at Royal Birkdale. Picture by THE R&amp;A</p></div>
<p><strong>YORKSHIRE’S Benjamin Schmidt comfortably advanced in his quest to win The 125th Amateur Championship.</strong></p>
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<p>Taking on Germany’s Brandon Dietzel, Schmidt – the highest ranked player in the field at No. 35 on the World Amateur Golf Ranking – recorded a 3&amp;2 victory across the famed Royal Birkdale links.</p>
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<p>The 18-year-old, from Rotherham GC, will meet Royal Lytham’s fellow England junior international Callan Barrow in Friday’s third round.</p>
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<p>The Lancastrian, who finished runner-up in the English Amateur Championship, defeated Scotland’s Lewis Irvine 2&amp;1.</p>
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<p>Schmidt created history last summer by winning the Carris and Brabazon in the same season at the age of just 16, breaking Sandy Lyle’s record from 1975 in the process.</p>
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<p>He said: “I feel like the first match is pretty tough. Everyone is wanting to just get through that first stage, so I am very happy.</p>
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<p>“I played pretty solid. I had a couple of holes in the middle of the match where I probably went a little flat. But I finished with two birdies which was very nice.</p>
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<p>“If you are bad off the tee around here it’s going to be pretty tough. But off the tee I have been pretty good.</p>
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<p>“I also hit some good shots into the greens to give myself birdie chances,” said Schmidt, <a href="http://www.golfsouth.co.uk/ben-schmidt-goes-farr-to-win-new-south-wales-amateur-his-fifth-national-title-in-year/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">who also won the New South Wales Amateur in February. </a></p>
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<p>There will be disappointment for another Scot Ruben Lindsay, the leading qualifier.</p>
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<p>The 16-year-old was knocked out after losing 2&amp;1 to Finland’s Ilari Saulo, who had disposed of Hallamshire’s in-form Sam Bairstow in the morning first round by 3&amp;1.</p>
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<p>The Finnish Amateur Champion will now go head-to-head with Denmark’s Victor Sidal Svendsen, who won by 1 hole to end the hopes of Welshman Ben Chamberlain.</p>
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<div id="attachment_8867" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Plumb-2.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-8867" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Plumb-2-1024x683.jpg" alt="Somerset’s Walker Cup player Tom Plumb" width="1024" height="683" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Somerset’s Tom Plumb beat Robert Moran 4&amp;3 to move int the last 32 at The British Amtaeur at Royal Birkdale on Thursday. Picture by ANDREW GRIFFIN / AMG PICTURES</p></div>
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<h2>Plumb happy to be in the last-32</h2>
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<p><strong>SOMERSET’S Thomas Plumb, a member of the 2019 Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team, moved into the last-32 thanks to a 4&amp;3 victory over Ireland’s Robert Moran. </strong></p>
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<p>Plumb got off to a fast start and was six-up through the turn, but found the going much tougher on Birkdale’s challenging back nine.</p>
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<p>“I started really well and was six-up through the turn,” said Plumb.</p>
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<p>“I started to stick the brakes on a little bit and got a little bit lazy and lackadaisical. But I was happy to get the job done in the end.</p>
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<p>“The back nine is just so difficult once you get past 12. You start going back out towards the sea.</p>
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<p>“It’s hard to gauge the wind and the course gets longer. It’s obviously late in the round as well so it definitely plays so much harder than the front nine.</p>
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<p>“I’m playing some good golf and I’m confident with how I played in the strokeplay in the bad weather on the first day – and then yesterday,” added Plumb, who qualified in a share of 30th place.</p>
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<p>Qualifying was reduced to just one round on Wednesday, after Tuesday’s first round was abandoned because of high winds.</p>
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<p>“I just want to stay confident each day and play each match as well as I have today and I should do okay.”</p>
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<p>The England international will now face team-mate Callum Farr, from Northamptonshire County, in the third round.</p>
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<p>Farr, who reached the semi-finals of the English Amateur in 2018 and 2019, beat Italian Davide Buchi by one hole.</p>
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<div id="attachment_8866" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Ravetto-winning-pic.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-8866" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Ravetto-winning-pic-1024x682.jpg" alt="France’s 2020 Brabazon Trophy winner David Ravetto" width="1024" height="682" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">France’s Brabazon Trophy winner David Ravetto has a chance to match the unique feat of Sir Michael Bonallack, who completed the English Strokeplay and Amateur double twice.<br />Picture by LEADERBOARD PHOTOGRAPHY</p></div>
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<h3>Ravetto can match Bonallack’s unique feat</h3>
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<p><strong>HAVING qualified for the matchplay stage by a single stroke, Frenchman David Ravetto, went head-to-head with Gloucestershire’s English Amateur champion Jack Cope, from The Players Club. </strong></p>
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<p>Opening with a birdie, Ravetto – who won the Brabazon Trophy last week – went one-up after the first before comfortably winning the match 5&amp;4.</p>
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<p>He will now play Marc Hammer on Friday after the German beat Finland’s Rasmus Karlsson 2&amp;1.</p>
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<p>Ravetto said: “It was a tough day yesterday because I knew it was just one round of qualifying.</p>
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<p>“I didn’t play a great round. I was maybe a little scared that I would mess it up. But I had plenty of confidence in my game this morning.</p>
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<p>“I played pretty solid golf, nothing too crazy, added Ravetto, who has a chance to equal the achievement of Sir Michael Bonallack by becoming just the second player to win the Brabazon and The Amateur Championship in the same season.</p>
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<p>Ravetto reflected: “I birdied the first hole to go one-up. I birdied six as well and managed a chip in bogey on seven and birdied 10. I shot two-under through 14 holes – so a solid round of golf.</p>
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<p>“Jack played a really good round. He is a really good player. We had a great match. He didn’t make many putts and that was the difference between us.”</p>
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<h4>Power inspired by Harrington’s heroics in 2008 Open</h4>
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<p><strong>DRAWING inspiration from Padraig Harrington – who won the 2008 Open at Royal Birkdale – Ireland’s Mark Power won his match against Jannik de Bruyn of Germany thanks to a 2&amp;1 victory. </strong></p>
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<p>He advanced to play England’s Jack Dyer in the last-32.</p>
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<p>Power said: “At the start of the week we were all watching that video of Harrington hitting that five-wood on 17.</p>
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<p>“I was standing on the 17th tee two-up. It was a big moment, as I was considering if I should take it on or not.</p>
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<p>“It’s just cool to be playing these type of golf courses that all the greats have played on.</p>
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<p>“It’s a magnificent golf course, the back nine is so tough, pars are great scores out there.</p>
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<p>“I have played Jannik before and I knew how good he was and that it would be a tough game.</p>
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<p>“We both probably didn’t have our best stuff today. But it was a good battle. To know that even when I’m not playing my best, I can win gives me a lot of confidence.”</p>
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<div id="attachment_8864" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ROYAL-BIRKDALE-CLUBHOUSE.jpeg"><img class="size-large wp-image-8864" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ROYAL-BIRKDALE-CLUBHOUSE-1024x612.jpeg" alt="Royal Birkdale’s famous Art Deco clubhouse – the club is staging The Amateur Championship for a fourth time in 2020" width="1024" height="612" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The famous Art Deco clubhouse at Royal Birkdale – one of the best courses on the R&amp;A’s Open Championship rota – and where Jordan Spieth claimed the Claret Jug in 2017</p></div>
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<h4>Birkdale hosting The Amateur for fourth time in 74 years</h4>
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<p><strong>ROYAL Birkdale is staging The Amateur Championship for just the fourth time in 74 years, having hosted it in 1946, 1989 and 2005. </strong></p>
<p>The matchplay stage continues on Friday with the last-16 and last-eight ties before the quarter and semi-finals on Saturday.</p>
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<p>Also through to the third round are Wiltshire’s Scottish Strokeplay Amateur Champion Jake Bolton, Tillman Trophy winner Matty Lamb, from Hexham, former Carris Trophy winner Barclay Brown, from Hallamshire, and Gloucestershire’s England international Joe Long.</p>
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<p>They are in the draw alongside Northampton County’s Ben Jones, a semi-finalist last year, who also reached the last four in this year’s Australian Amateur.</p>
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<p>Dubai-based England junior Josh Hill, the youngest amateur to win a professional event on the Mena Tour in 2019, will face Long.</p>
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<p>Canterbury’s Joshua Bristow and Dartford’s Mason Essam, who helped Kent win the English County Championship last September, while Essex’s Jack Dyer, and Aaron Edwards-Hill – last year’s North of Ireland Open winner, are also bidding for a place in the last-16.</p>
<p>A total of 17 English players have made it through to the third round with Castle Park’s Stephen Gallacher Foundation Ambassador Connor Wilson – and Peebles Darren Howie – the only Scots left in the competition.</p>
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<p>The winner of Sunday’s 36-hole final will gain exemptions into the 149th Open at Royal St George’s next July, and by tradition, an invitation to play in the Masters at Augusta National – as well as an exemption to the 2021 US Open.</p>
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		<title>Sotogrande call off European Nations’ Championship as coronavirus spreads in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>NEXT month’s European Nations’ Championship due to be held at Spain’s Sotogrande Golf Club, have been postponed – along with events in Ireland – because of the coronavirus crisis. Organisers of the prestigious event at the Sotogrande GC – on the Costa del Sol – have responded to the Covid-19 outbreak in Spain and across [&#8230;]</p>
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<div id="attachment_7853" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Euro-nations-winners-2019.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-7853" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Euro-nations-winners-2019-1024x597.jpg" alt="The England men’s team who won the 2019 European Nations’ Championship at Sotogrande Golf Club, in Spain." width="1024" height="597" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The winning England team at last year’s European Nations’ Championship at Sotogrande GC. Back row – Yeovil GC’s Tom Plumb and Bailey Gill, from Lindrick. Front: Tom Sloman, who won the gold individual medal and Northamptonshire County’s Ben Jones (right)</p></div>
<p><strong>NEXT month’s European Nations’ Championship due to be held at Spain’s Sotogrande Golf Club, have been postponed – along with events in Ireland – because of the coronavirus crisis. </strong></p>
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<p>Organisers of the prestigious event at the Sotogrande GC – on the Costa del Sol – have responded to the Covid-19 outbreak in Spain and across Europe.</p>
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<p>The announcement was quickly followed by the Golf Union of Ireland’s announcement that the annual boys international against Wales at Caridgan GC, on March 20 and 21, was being called off.</p>
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<p>The Irish Ladies Golf Union cancelled the Irish Girls Open Strokeplay at Roganstown, from April 3-5, while the ILGU will also not be sending a team to the French U21 Championship next month.</p>
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<p>England’s men and women were due to compete at the European Nations’ on the Costa del Sol along with 15 other countries from April 15-18.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/sotograndes-european-conquerors-take-on-spanish-at-formby/" target="_blank">In 2019, the England men’s team struck gold while Tom Sloman, from Somerset’s Taunton and Puckeridge GC, won the individual title.</a></p>
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<p>England’s women earned a bronze medal – their best-ever finish in the event.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.golfsotogrande.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sotogrande Golf Club’s</a> Maria Jose Arias said: “The expansion of COVID-19 leaves us with no other option than to postpone the tournament until there is a favourable scenario without risks.</p>
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<p>“Our intention is to be able to host the tournament this year whenever it is possible.</p>
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<p>“We deeply regret this situation and wish everyone good health in these difficult times.”</p>
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<p>The European Nations’ Championship is not the first top amateur event to be cancelled in 2020 because of the coronavirus epidemic, which was upgraded to a pandemic on March 11.</p>
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<p>The Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific – due to be held in the second week of February – was called off first, followed by the Bonallack Trophy, the match between Asia and Europe.</p>
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<p>The WAAP will now be played in October, at Thailand’s Siam Country Club, in Pattaya.</p>
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<p>The Italian Golf Federation has postponed the Italian Men’s and Women’s Amateur Championships along with several senior events on the international calendar.</p>
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<p>College golf in the USA has also been hit, with the rest of the NCAA season now cancelled.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>SEVEN members of the England Golf’s performance squads are travelling to Australia in the New Year, to kick off their 2020 amateur golf season. Five of the men’s squad and two from the women’s team are heading down under for four top-class tournaments in January. Northamptonshire County’s Ben Jones and Callum Farr, Yorkshire’s Ben Schmidt, [&#8230;]</p>
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<div id="attachment_6961" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/callum-farr.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-6961" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/callum-farr-1024x750.jpg" alt="England Golf men’s squad member Callum Farr, from Northamptonshire County Golf Club" width="1024" height="750" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Northamptonshire County’s Callum Farr – runner-up in the English Amateur in August – is one of a seven-strong England team heading to Australia in January.<br />Picture by LEADERBOARD PHOTOGRAPHY</p></div>
<p><strong>SEVEN members of the England Golf’s performance squads are travelling to Australia in the New Year, to kick off their 2020 amateur golf season.</strong></p>
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<p>Five of the men’s squad and two from the women’s team are heading down under for four top-class tournaments in January.</p>
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<p>Northamptonshire County’s Ben Jones and Callum Farr, Yorkshire’s Ben Schmidt, Tom Plumb, from Somerset, and Northumberland’s Matty Lamb will spearhead the men’s challenge.</p>
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<p>Cornwall’s Emily Toy – the reigning Women’s Amateur champion – and Yorkshire’s Charlotte Heath will lead the way for the women.</p>
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<div id="attachment_6960" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Toy-British-Womens-copy.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-6960" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Toy-British-Womens-copy-1024x640.jpg" alt="Emily Toy, a member of England Golf’s Women’s Squad, who is heading Down Ander to play in the Australia Ladies Amateur Championnship" width="1024" height="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Emily Toy, winner of The 2019 Women’s Amateur Championship. Picture by GETTY IMAGES</p></div>
<p>A month of competition starts with the Master of the Amateur tournament at the Victoria Golf Club near Melbourne, between January 7-10.</p>
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<p>The England players will then travel on for the Australian Amateur, at Royal Queensland, from January 14-19.</p>
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<p>The New South Wales Amateur follows immediately at St Michael’s Golf Club and the Coast Golf Club, in Little Bay.</p>
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<p>The month ends with the Avondale Amateur at Avondale Golf Club, from January 28-31.</p>
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<p>Yorkshire teenager Schmidt is the most decorated of the England Golf’s men’s party, having broken the record as the youngest-ever winner of the Brabazon and Carris Trophy double in the same season, at just 16, in July.</p>
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<p>Jones reached the semi-final of The Amateur Championship at Portmarnock, in June, but missed out on a Walker Cup appearance at Royal Liverpool, in September.</p>
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<p>Yeovil’s Tom Plumb did play for Great Britain and Ireland at Hoylake, where the USA regained the Walker Cup.</p>
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<p>The 20-year-old, who won the South West Counties Amateur Championship back in June, was also crowned Cape Province Open winner in March. He has been an England international at men’s and boys level since 2015.</p>
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<p>Hampshire Hog winner Lamb, who made his debut in the English Home Internationals alongside Schmidt, Plumb, Jones and Farr, who lost in the final of the English Amateur to Stoke Park’s Conor Gough, in August.</p>
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<div id="attachment_6962" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Scott-Gregory-NSW-amateur.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-6962" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Scott-Gregory-NSW-amateur-1024x576.jpg" alt="Corhamton 2016 Amateur Champion Scott Gregory 2017 New South Wales Amateur Champion" width="1024" height="576" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Corhampton’s Scott Gregory – winner of the 2017 New South Wales Amateur. Picture by ANTHONY POWTER</p></div>
<h3>England’s successes Down Under – from Victorian Michael Scott to Scott Gregory</h3>
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<p><strong>THE Australian Amateur dates back to 1894 – a year before the US Amateur was founded.</strong></p>
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<p>That makes it the fourth oldest national championship in the amateur world behind New Zealand (1893), South Africa (1892) and the R&amp;A Amateur (1885).</p>
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<p>Gloucestershire’s former Winchester College student Michael Scott, who emigrated to Australia at the start of the 20th Century, won the Australian Amateur four times between 1905 and 1911.</p>
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<p>Scott also took the amateur honours at the inaugural Australian Open title in 1904, and won again in 1907 – beating both the professionals and the amateurs in the field by some seven shots.</p>
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<p>The son of the Earl of Eldon also won seven Victoria Amateur state titles before returning to Europe to fight in the First World War.</p>
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<p>Scott, whose sister Lady Margaret Scott who won the first three Women’s Amateur Championships, won two French Amateur titles in 1912 and 1922.</p>
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<p>He made his Walker Cup debut in 1924, at New York’s Garden City Golf Club.</p>
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<p>The Royal St George’s captain became the oldest player to appear in the Walker Cup when he also captained the Great Britain and Ireland team at St Andrews, in 1934, at the age of 55 – having become the oldest winner of The Amateur Championship a year earlier.</p>
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<p>The only English winner Down Under in post-war times was Middlesex’s Warren Bennett – the Ealing man was crowned in 1994 – the Scots have a better record with Connor Syme winning in 2016, while Eric Ramsay won at Royal Melbourne, in 2005, and Jack Doherty at Mount Lawley in 2003.</p>
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<p>But the English have fared better in the 36-hole strokeplay qualifier – at one point given the title of Australian Amateur Strokeplay Champion but now known as the Australian Amateur Medallist.</p>
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<p>Danny Willett took that Strokeplay title in 2008 – preceded by Andrew Dodt and Jason Day (2006), while Wellingborough’s Ryan Evans took the prize in 2014 – followed a year later by Huddersfield’s Nick Marsh, six months after he beat Hampshire’s Scott Gregory in the English Amateur final at Saunton.</p>
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<p>Australian Blake Windred claimed the Avondale in 2018 and 2019 and turned pro earlier this year. He was third Australian to win the Avondale back-to-back since its founding in 2006.</p>
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<p>The last Englishman to claim the title in New South Wales was Evans in 2014 that marked a memorable month Down Under for Evans and England Golf.</p>
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<p>Woburn’s Steve Lewton, who went on to play on the European Challenge and Asian Tours, was the second ever winner in 2007, followed by Coventry’s Matt Cryer a year later.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.englandgolf.org/scott-gregory-triumphs-in-new-south-wales-final/">In 2017, Gregory, from Corhampton, claimed the New South Wales Amateur title as the reigning Amateur Championship beat Sussex’s Marco Penge in the final, at Terrey Hills G&amp;CC.</a></p>
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<p>The Corhampton player – who headed England Golf’s party that year – also featured in the Master of the Amateur tournament and met Open Champion legend Peter Thompson during a practice round.</p>
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<p>The Australian, who lifted the Claret Jug three years’ running in the mid-1950s – and five times in total between 1954 and 1965 – died in June 2018.</p>
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<p>Staffordshire’s Gian-Marco Petrozzi claimed the NSW title in 2018. Previous English winners include Formby’s Paul Howard (2015), Hexham’s Jack Senior (2011) and Gary Wolstenholme (2007).</p>
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<p>The New South Wales dates back to 1898 – the most famous champion was New Zealand’s Michael Campbell, the winner in 1992, who went on to win the US Open in 2005 at Pinehurst.</p>
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<p><strong>•For more information about the amateur events England Golf’s party will play in Australia, in January, visit <a href="http://www.golf.org.au" target="_blank">www.golf.org.au</a></strong></p>
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		<title>England retain Raymond Trophy as Schmidt makes up for Walker Cup omission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>ENGLAND have won the Home Internationals after beating Scotland 9-6 at Lahinch, on Friday, to retain the Raymond Trophy. Hexham’s Matty Lamb won five out of six matches, losing just one over the three days as England followed up their 12-3 romp over Wales on Wednesday, with a 10-5 win over their Irish hosts, on [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><strong>ENGLAND have won the Home Internationals after beating Scotland 9-6 at Lahinch, on Friday, to retain the Raymond Trophy.</strong></p>
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<p>Hexham’s Matty Lamb won five out of six matches, losing just one over the three days as England followed up their 12-3 romp over Wales on Wednesday, with a 10-5 win over their Irish hosts, on Thursday, to maintain their 100 per cent record.</p>
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<p>England were pegged back to a 21/2-21/2 draw in the foursomes by the Scots, who made a strong start in match three with Eric McIntosh and Darren Howie going up five up with four to play against West Cornwall’s Harry Hall and Rotheram’s teeanage record-breaker Ben Schmidt.</p>
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<p>Somerset’s Walker Cup pairing of Tom Sloman and Tom Plumb beat Euan McIntosh and Kieran Cantley 2&amp;1 in the top match to tie things up quickly and extend their foursomes record to three wins out of three.</p>
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<p>After Northamptonshire County’s Ben Jones and Saunton’s Jake Burnage lost by one hole to Royal Wimbledon’s Ryan Lumsden and Matt Clark, Lamb playing with Yorkshire’s Ben Hutchinson, beat James Wilson and Connor McKinney 4&amp;3.</p>
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<p>The bottom match between Lindrick’s Bailey Gill and Wallasey’s Joshua McMahon ended in a half to take the teams into lunch all-square.</p>
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<p>England made a fast start to the singles on the course which hosted the Irish Open won by Jon Rahm.</p>
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<p>Sloman took care of Lumsden courtesy of a 3&amp;2 win while Jones won the 18<sup>th</sup> to beat Cantley by two.</p>
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<p>While Plumb was held to a half by Wilson, Burnage, who was considered very unlucky to miss out on a Walker Cup place despite winning the St Andrews Links, in June, lost 2&amp;1 to McKinney.</p>
<div id="attachment_5262" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Matty-Lamb-2-copy.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-5262" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Matty-Lamb-2-copy-1024x683.jpg" alt="Hexham’s Matty Lamb the 2019 Hampshire Hog winner" width="1024" height="683" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hexham’s Matty Lamb was England’s top scorer losing just one of six matches as they retained the Raymond Trophy at the Home Internationals at Lahinch, with a 9-6 win over Scotland on the final day. Picture by ANDREW GRIFFIN / AMG PICTURES</p></div>
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<p>Northamptonshire’s Callum Farr halved with Irvine Lewis and Hampshire Hog winner Lamb beat Howie by one on the last to make it 61/2-41/2 to England.</p>
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<p>Clark ended his week on a high as Scotland’s leading points scorer with a 2&amp;1 win over Hutchinson to keep Scottish hopes alive.</p>
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<p>But Schmidt – the youngest player to win both the Carris Trophy and the Brabazon in the same season – was left to claim the winning point for England and the title thanks to a two-hole win over Eric McIntosh.</p>
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<p>Lytham Trophy winner McMahon – another to miss out on Walker Cup selection – got a half from Euan after Lindrick’s Bailey Gill took care of Stuart Easton in the bottom match, winning 3&amp;2.</p>
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<p>England’s bid to retain the Home Internationals crown they won at Conwy 12 months ago, began with Wales holding them to 21/2-21/2 in the foursomes.</p>
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<p>Jones – who, along with Ben Schmidt, was one of two reserves for the Great Britain and Ireland side that lost the Walker Cup to the USA at Royal Liverpool, on Sunday,– helped Burnage to a 4&amp;3 win over Jake Hapgood and Jacob Davies.</p>
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<p>But from 2-0 up Welsh pair Connor Jones and George Bryant won on the last against Hutchinson and Lamb while Matt Roberts and Kieron Harman picked off Gill and McMahon by 3&amp;2 leaving Schmidt and Farr to share the spoils with Wales’ Gaelen Trew and Tom Froom.</p>
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<p>But the singles were a very different proposition as the scoreboard was turned red with England winning nine out of the 10 matches, with just Farr held to a half at the death by Trew to make it 12-3.</p>
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<p>Plumb beat Davies 7&amp;6 in match two while Burnage collected his second point of the day with a 5&amp;4 win over Hapgood.</p>
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<p>Hutchinson picked up the winning point with a 5&amp;3 win over Roberts as Gill raced to his win over Jones by the same scoreline a hole behind them.</p>
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<p>Ireland claimed the Raymond Trophy four years in a row before England’s victory in 2018 but their hopes of regaining the crown in front of their own fans was effectively ended when they lost the foursomes 4-1.</p>
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<p>Plumb and Sloman took care of Walker Cup team-mate Conor Purcell, playing with Keith Egan, winning 4&amp;3 while Gill and McMahon beat another of Ireland’s four Walker Cup players – Tom KcKibbin – by two holes, playing with Colm Campbell.</p>
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<p>Ireland’s only success came courtesy of Walker Cup player Caolan Rafferty’s 2&amp;1 win playing with Tiarnan McLarnon against Jones and Burnage.</p>
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<p>Ireland had to come out fighting and Purcell ended Sloman’s 100 per cent record with a 3&amp;2 win before Rafferty got the better of Plumb by 2&amp;1.</p>
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<p>But wins from Farr – his first for England – Burnage, Jones and Lamb – the latter against McKibbon on the last – wrapped up the 10-5 win.</p>
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<p>Schmidt kept his unbeaten run going with a 2&amp;1 win over McLarnon before Gill halved the bottom match with Campbell who played in all four of Ireland’s recent Home International triumphs.</p>
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		<title>England captain Edwards picks six debutants for Home Internationals at Lahinch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>ENGLAND Golf have announced a strong team for the defence of their title at the Men&#8217;s Home Internationals, to be played at Lahinch, in Ireland, from September 11-13. The 11-man team includes West Cornwall’s Harry Hall, and Somerset pair Tom Sloman and Tom Plumb, who will travel to Ireland straight from playing in the Walker [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><strong>ENGLAND Golf have announced a strong team for the defence of their title at the Men&#8217;s Home Internationals, to be played at Lahinch, in Ireland, from September 11-13.</strong></p>
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<p>The 11-man team includes West Cornwall’s Harry Hall, and Somerset pair Tom Sloman and Tom Plumb, who will travel to Ireland straight from playing in the Walker Cup match at Royal Liverpool the weekend before, but not schoolboy Conor Gough, the 16-year-old English Amateur Champion, from Buckinghamshire’s Stoke Park GC.</p>
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<p>Captain Nigel Edwards has also picked Rotherham’s record-breaker Ben Schmidt and Ben Jones, from Northamptonshire County, who were listed as first and second reserves for the biennial fixture against the USA when the Walker Cup team was named on Monday.</p>
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<p>The 2019 team also includes Jake Burnage and Bailey Gill, who were part of the 2018 English Men’s Home International team that beat this year’s hosts Ireland in the deciding match 12 months ago at Conwy GC, in Wales.</p>
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<p>Plumb and Sloman were also part of that winning squad. Hall and Schmidt are both newcomers to the Home International team and earn their first full England caps.</p>
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<p>Hall graduated from University of Las Vegas, in May, where he won twice in five weeks in 2018 and played under Cornwall’s Walker Cup player Philip Rowe, who was in the same team as Justin Rose, in 1997.</p>
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<p>They are joined by Hampshire Hog winner Matty Lamb, Yorkshire’s Ben Hutchinson and Wallasey’s Joshua McMahon, who also make their debut in the contest.</p>
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<p>The final debutant is Northamptonshire County’s second representative in the team – Callum Farr, who lost in the final of the English Amateur to Stoke Park’s Conor Gough at Hankley Common, earlier this month.</p>
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<p>Farr, who earned his place in this year’s England A squad by winning the Selborne Salver last year and by reaching the last four of the 2018 English Amateur, was also runner-up in the Spanish Amateur, in March.</p>
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<p>Two reserve players have also been selected – Castle Royle’s David Langley and Malton and Norton’s Yorkshire player David Hague, who both were in the team a year ago.</p>
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		<title>England miss out on Euro’s glory as Sweden condemn them to third silver in a row</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>ENGLAND narrowly missed out on the chance to win the European Men&#8217;s Team Championship for a record 12th time when they lost to hosts Sweden in the final of this year&#8217;s championship at Llunghusen GC. Tom Sloman, Alex Fitzpatrick and Ben Jones all claimed top-10 finishes as England finished second behind Ireland in the 36-hole [&#8230;]</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_5623" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/England-Euros.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-5623" src="http://www.golfnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/England-Euros-1024x683.jpg" alt="England team at 2019 European Amateur Team Golf Championship" width="1024" height="683" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The England team who were beaten 41/2-21/2 in the final of the European Amateur Team Championship by hosts Sweden at Llunghusen Golf Club.</p></div>
<p><strong>ENGLAND narrowly missed out on the chance to win the European Men&#8217;s Team Championship for a record 12th time when they lost to hosts Sweden in the final of this year&#8217;s championship at Llunghusen GC.</strong></p>
<p>Tom Sloman, Alex Fitzpatrick and Ben Jones all claimed top-10 finishes as England finished second behind Ireland in the 36-hole strokeplay qualifier earlier in the week.</p>
<p>And they went on to defeat both Wales and Scotland by 4-3 before losing 4½- 2½ to the hosts in a keenly contested final in which all but one of the matches went at least as far as the 17th green.</p>
<p>The English team were the first to put a point on the board when Somerset pair Tom Sloman and Tom Plumb recorded their third foursomes win of the tournament with a 2&amp;1 win over Ludvig Aberg and Christoffer Palsson.</p>
<p>But David Nyfjall and Vincent Norrman ensured the scoreline was level at lunch with a 4&amp;3 victory over Alex Fitzpatrick and Matty Lamb.</p>
<p>In the afternoon Harry Hall made it three-out-of-three in the singles with a 2&amp;1 victory over Norrman, and Plumb also halved with Nyfjall – but that was not quite enough to see the team over the line.</p>
<p>The result means England have won three sliver medals in a row having also achieved that feat in Austria in 2017 – and then again in Germany 12 months later.</p>
<p>The men’s team comprised Sloman (Taunton &amp; Puckeridge) Fitzpatrick (Hallamshire), Jones (Northamptonshire County), Plumb (Yeovil), Hall (West Cornwall) and Lamb (Hexham).</p>
<p>For full scores click <a href="http://www.ega-golf.ch/event/2019-european-amateur-team-championship" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<h3>Women’s team end up in fifth place</h3>
<p>•ENGLAND ended the European Ladies’ Team Championship on a high note when they beat Scotland 3-2 to claim fifth place at Is Molas in Sardinia.</p>
<p>The team made up of Lianna Bailey, Roehampton’s Annabell Fuller, Berkhamsted’s Alice Hewson, Stoke by Naylan’s Lily May Humphrey and Cornwall’s Women’s Amateur Champion – Emily Toy, from Carlyon Bay – lost the chance of collecting a medal when they were beaten 5½ &#8211; 1½ by Sweden in the opening round of the knockout competition.</p>
<p>But they then defeated Denmark 3½-1½ before rounding the championship out with a win over the Scots. The event was won by Sweden who beat Spain 5-2 in the final.</p>
<p>For full results from the championship click <a href="http://www.ega-golf.ch/event/2019-european-ladies-team-championship" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
<h3>Boys also fifth as hosts France win</h3>
<p>THERE was also a fifth-place finish for the English team at the European Boys’ Team Championship where hosts France won in front of the own fans at Chantilly.</p>
<p>England – represented by Hallamshire’s Barclay Brown, Stoke Park’s Conor Gough, Bishop’s Stortford’s Max Hopkins, Florida-based Joe Pagdin, Rotheram’s Brabazon Trophy record-breaker Ben Schmidt and Robin Williams, from Peterborough Milton – lost 4-3 to Ireland in the opening round.</p>
<p>But the U18s then defeated Italy 3½-1½ before rounding things by beating Spain by the same scoreline.</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://www.ega-golf.ch/event/2019-european-boys-team-championship" target="_blank">here</a> for full results</p>
<h3>Girls qualify in fifth but lose to hosts</h3>
<p>THE English Girls team finished fifth in qualifying at the European Girls’ Team Championship, at Parador El Saler, in Spain, but then lost 4-3 to Spain, 3-2 to The Netherlands and 3½ &#8211; 1½ to Sweden to finish eighth.</p>
<p>The event was won for the first time by Denmark who beat Spain in the final. Click <a href="http://www.ega-golf.ch/event/2019-european-girls-team-championship" target="_blank">here</a> for full results.</p>
<p><strong>ENGLAND GIRLS:</strong> Jessica Baker (Gosford Ladies), Rosie Belsham (Whitely Bay), Ellie Gower (Gleneagles), Charlotte Heath (Huddersfield), Euphemie Rhodes (Burnham &amp; Berrow and Caitlin Whitehead (Carus Green).</p>
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