Cornwall Boys Team Named for SWCGA Championship
Saturday 26th June 2021
SWCGA Boys Championship 7th & 8th July 2021 Salisbury & S Wilts GC
Cornwall U18s Team Manager Derek Law has named the eight Duchy boys who will represent the county at the SWCGA Boys Championship next month.
The Championship takes place at Salisbury& South Wilts GC on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th July 2021 and sees a practice round followed by 36 holes of scratch strokeplay, which doubles up as the qualifying round for the English Boys’ County Championship, which Cornwall last qualified for in 2018 (at Perranporth). The team will be playing an additional practice round on Tuesday 6th July in a friendly encounter with the Dorset team.
In the Championship proper, each of the six competing SW counties nominates a team of six players and the best five scores are taken in each round. The County returning the lowest aggregate scores will be declared the winner. and will qualify for the county finals.
Selection of the team was made by Law in conjunction with Richard Sadler (County U18's Academy PGA Professional), and County Junior Captain Tom Stephens , and both looked at recent form. Recent winner of the County Junior Championship Isaac D'Bue (pictured above) gets a debut spot at this level as does handicap winner Ryan Gregory along with Ethan Tempest who has demonstrated good form of late.
The full team is: Tom Stephens (Captain, Trevose), Liam Wilson (Trevose), Josh Chapman (Tehidy Park), Isaac D'Bue (Falmouth), Alec Nile (Carlyon Bay), Ethan Tempest (West Cornwall), Jack Kevern (West Cornwall) and Ryan Gregory (St. Mellion).
The players will have to perform lateral flow tests before and during the event and as a result a number of non-travelling reserves have also beeen named in the event the pandemic intervenes. They are Will Hardwick (Perranporth), Connor Vanstone (Bude & N Cornwall), Cameron Gurd (Perranporth), Charlie Ward (Launceston), Matt Lamb (Tehidy Park) and Morgan Bryant (Bude & N Cornwall).
Salisbury & S Wilts GC is set in the glorious Wiltshire countryside close to the medieval city with its downland courses offering magnificent views for miles around. The testing Cathedral 18 hole layout on which the Championship will be played has existed since 1991. A course scorecard can be accessed here and a course flyover is also available via the club website
A provisional startsheet for 8th July is provided here
You will be able to follow scoring on the day via the SWCGA website.