GB&I Jacques Léglise Trophy Team Announced
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2017-08-30
Who Will Get Their Hands On The Jacques Léglise Trophy? (Photo/The R&A)
The Great Britain and Ireland boys team to face the Continent of Europe in the Jacques Léglise Trophy match at Ballybunion in Ireland next month was announced by The R&A.
The nine player GB&I team for the match on September 1-2:
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Toby Briggs (17) |
Dunston Hall, England |
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Alex Fitzpatrick (18) |
Hallamshire, England |
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Luke Harries (18) |
Tenby, Wales |
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Darren Howie (17) |
Peebles, Scotland |
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Ben Jones (18) |
Northamptonshire Co, England |
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Thomas Plumb (18) |
Sherborne, England |
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Mark Power (17, Captain) |
Kilkenny, Ireland |
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Charlie Strickland (18) |
Ham Manor, England |
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Robin Williams (15) |
Peterborough Milton, England |
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Reserve: |
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Conor Gough (14) |
Stoke Park, England |
GB&I target first win since 2014
The GB&I team, which will be managed for the first time by Stuart Wilson, who won The Amateur Championship in 2004, will be looking to win back the Jacques Léglise Trophy after the Continent of Europe won a close encounter by 13 ½ to 11 ½ at Prince’s in Kent last year.
GB&I won the matches in 2013 at Royal St David’s and 2014 at Barsebäck in Sweden while the 2015 match at Royal Dornoch finished in a tie at 12 ½ - 12 ½. GB&I has won 28 matches overall compared to eleven victories for the Continent of Europe.
Four players set to return
Four members of the GB&I team return from the 2016 match: Toby Briggs, Alex Fitzpatrick, Mark Power and Charlie Strickland. Strickland won the Peter McEvoy Trophy and the Duncan Putter in April and Power will be full of confidence after winning the Irish Boys Championship. Briggs finished tied fifth in the individual standings at last month’s European Boys Team Championship and joined Strickland and Fitzpatrick in the winning England team in the recent Boys Home Internationals.
Newcomers
Among the newcomers to the team are Ben Jones and Darren Howie. Jones won the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters in June while Howie was runner-up in that event and was the leading stroke play qualifier at last week’s Boys Amateur Championship at Nairn. Fifteen-year-old Robin Williams will play for the first time in the match.
The format for the Jacques Léglise Trophy match is four foursomes ties each morning, eight singles matches on the afternoon of September 1 and nine singles matches on the afternoon of September 2.