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Hutsby beats US Amateur Champion to win Spanish title - 6th Mar 2006
England boy international Sam Hutsby pulled off the biggest victory of his burgeoning career on Sunday when he won the Spanish Amateur Championship at Sherry Golf Jerez.
What made the success even more astonishing was that the 17 year old from Hampshire beat Italy’s Edoardo Molinari, the reigning US Amateur champion, 7 and 6 in the 36 hole final.
Fellow England A squad member Gary Boyd reached the semi-finals but became one of Molinari’s victims.
With his outstanding record, Molinari, eight years older than Hutsby, went into the final as favourite but he soon found he was in a battle as the Lee-on-the-Solent teenager birdied the second and third holes to open a two hole lead. It was an advantage he was never to lose. In fact he was five up at lunch and while the scoring overall wasn’t spectacular, Hutsby finished an outstanding performance on the 12th green in the afternoon.
Hutsby qualified third in the 36 hole preliminary competition after round of 75 and 68, one of 15 English players in the top 32. He beat Michael Lowe from Surrey 3 and 2 in round one then accounted for Scotland’s Steven McEwan at the 19th. In the quarter finals Hutsby overcame Frenchman Adrien Bernadet 3 and 1, then clinched his place in the final with a 2 hole victory over Spain’s Gonzalo Berlin.
Hutsby, a member of the England under 18 squad, is the latest in a string of English successes in recent weeks and his victory follows in the wake of Ben Parker’s wins in the Junior Orange Bowl in America and in the Tasmanian Open Amateur, Danny Denison in the Qatar Open Amateur, James Morrison in the Victorian Amateur, and Adam Gee in the Lake Macquarie International.
On top of that Gary Wolstenholme finished runner-up in the New South Wales Medal and Amateur Championship, Adam Wainwright was a semi-finalist in the Portuguese Amateur, while England retained the Costa Ballena Tournament in Spain.
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