HUTSBY AND GODDARD OFF TO THE ORANGE BOWL - 16th Dec 2006

England boy captain Sam Hutsby and Luke Goddard, a multiple winner this year, will represent the English Golf Union in the annual Junior Orange Bowl International Championship at Biltmore Golf Club at Coral Gables, Florida on 27th-29th December.

The two boy caps will aim to follow in the footsteps of former boy international Ben Parker, who won the title over the same course last December.

Hutsby, 18, from Hampshire, has enjoyed a highly successful year. He won the Spanish Amateur Championship at Cadiz in February, beating Italy’s Edoardo Molinari, the then US Amateur champion, 7 & 6 in the 36-hole final.

After finishing runner-up in the McEvoy Trophy, Hutsby represented England in the World Boys Team Championships in Japan and the European Boys Team Championships in Sweden before captaining the team in the Boys Home Internationals in Scotland and being called up by GB&I for the Jacques Leglise Trophy in the Czech Republic. He also finished third in the individual standings in the EGU South East Boys Qualifying and fourth in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters. But his other big triumph came at Dundonald when he won the Duke of York Young Champions tournament.

Middlesex-based Goddard, 18, was a team-mate of Hutsby’s in Japan, Sweden, Scotland and the Czech Republic and he also starred at home by winning four junior titles. He beat Hutsby to the McEvoy Trophy, the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters, the South East Junior Championship and the Bernard Darwin Trophy.

Both players are members of England training squads, Hutsby of the ‘A’ Squad while Goddard is a member of the Under 21 Squad.

The Orange Bowl, one of the most prestigious under-18 events in the world, has separate boys and girls tournaments played over 72 holes of stroke play. Last year, Parker became the first British player to win the title when he finished on 274, a stroke ahead of Andres Echavarria from Colombia and American Peter Uthlein.

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