Young champions tackle all India Amateur Championship - 23rd Jan 2006

England Under 18 Champion Thomas Haylock and Tom Sherreard, the 2005 McEvoy Trophy winner, will represent the English Golf Union in the 105th All India Amateur Championship and International Team Match on the sub continent next month.

This will be the second occasion that the EGU have sent players to these events, which are being held at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club in Mumbai on 7th - 15th February.

Haylock, who is a member of The Hertfordshire club, won the Under 18 title for the Carris Trophy by five strokes at Moor Park last July, which prompted his debut for the victorious England squad in the Boys Home Internationals at Woodhall Spa a couple of weeks later. Also the South East Junior Champion, Haylock was then called up for GB&I against the Continent of Europe in the Jacques Leglise Trophy at Royal Porthcawl and was later named in the England Under 21 Training Squad.

Sherreard, the 2005 England Boys Captain from Kent, is also a member of the Under 21 Squad and, like Haylock, enjoyed a successful 2005. Victory in the McEvoy Trophy at Copt Heath was followed by selection for the World Boys Team Championships in Japan and for the European Boys Team Championships in Italy.

Back home, Sherreard finished runner-up in the individual standings in the South East Boys Qualifying at Bedford and ninth behind Haylock in the Carris Trophy. As captain, he led England to a successful defence of the Boys Home Internationals and was a team-mate of Haylock’s in the Jacques Leglise Trophy. A member of the Chart Hills Golf Club, Sherreard ended 2005 by finishing runner-up to Oliver Fisher in the Daily Telegraph Junior Championship in Dubai, fourth in the Duke of York Champions Trophy on the Isle of Man, and represented the EGU in the Junior Orange Bowl in Florida immediately after Christmas.

In Mumbai, the two-day international team match over 36 holes is scheduled to precede the championship, being played on 7th and 8th February, the aggregate scores of both players to count. The All India Amateur Championship, a match play event, will follow.

Two years ago on the last occasion the EGU sent players to the event, James Smith from Kent reached the semi-finals when the tournament was played at Royal Calcutta.

The Bombay Presidency club is one of the oldest in India having been formed in 1927. It moved to its present site just before the last war and first staged the India Amateur in 1964. Back to top

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