Winning trio seek further success in Czech Amateur - 26th Jul 2007

Gregg Blainey, Neil Chaudhuri and Andrew Sullivan, all winners in the past year, will represent the English Golf Union in the Czech Amateur Championship at the Astoria Golf Resort at Cihelny by Karlovy Vary in Western Bohemia on 8th - 11th August.

Blainey, 24, from Berkshire, won the Berkhamsted Trophy at the end of March and followed that with a third place in the West of England Stroke Play Championship at Saunton. He also won the Herts Stag and the Hertfordshire Bowl in 2005 at Moor Park.

Chaudhuri, 22, has enjoyed a string of wins in his home county of Leicestershire and has proved successful on foreign soil. In 2005, he finished runner-up in the Spanish Amateur at El Saler and shared the title in the Peruvian Amateur in Lima when the playoff was abandoned when they ran out of daylight. He also represented England in Australia last year as well as finishing tied first in the Duncan Putter in Wales. This year, he finished fourth in the Welsh Open Stroke Play.

Sullivan, 20, is a former Warwickshire Boys Champion at match play and stroke play and won the Midland Champion of Champions event at Kirby Muxloe in 2005. He also captained Warwickshire in the English Boys County Finals at Little Aston. Last year, he won the Warwickshire Open at Coventry, was a member of his county team in the English County Finals at Prince’s, and plays No.1 for the county team.

The Czech Amateur is a 72-hole stroke play event with a halfway cut to the leading 70 players and ties with a further cut after the third round to the leading 40 players and ties.

There will also be a Nations Cup decided over the opening two rounds with the best two scores from three to count.

EGU trio: Gregg Blainey (Bearwood Lakes), Neil Chaudhuri (The Leicestershire), Andrew Sullivan (Purley Chase).

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