Marmion and Wood head down Mexico way - 9th Mar 2007

Dale Marmion and Chris Wood, both members of the England ‘A’ squad, will represent the English Golf Union in the annual Mexican Amateur Championship and International Pairs Tournament at the Mexico City Country Club on 29th March - 1st April.

Both players have been elevated to the ‘A’ squad this year after making marked progress in 2006.

Marmion, who will turn 22 on 6th March, played in a host of events last year, finishing eighth in both the West of England Stroke Play Championship and the Tillman Trophy. The Delamere Forest member was also fourth in the Cheshire Championship and finished runner-up in the Cheshire Order of Merit.

Wood, 19, from the Long Ashton club in Bristol, is the current Gloucestershire champion, having previously held the county junior title. He was also South West Counties boys and match play champion in 2005, the year he finished fifth in the Carris Trophy and represented Gloucestershire in the Boys County Finals. Besides winning the county championship in 2006, Wood tied fifth in the South of England Stroke Play, reached the quarter finals of the Italian Amateur, and was a member of the Gloucestershire team in the men’s County Finals at Prince’s.

The Mexican Amateur is played over 72 holes of stroke play with the International Pairs Tournament running alongside, the aggregate scores each day of both players
counting.

This will be the fifth occasion that the EGU has sent players to the event. In 2002 internationals Paul Bradshaw from Lincolnshire and Warwickshire’s Jamie Elson carried the flag, while the West Country pair of Ed Butler and Scott Godfrey played in 2004. Lloyd Campbell from Kent and Lincolnshire’s David Skinns won the pairs event in 2005, while full internationals Matt Cryer from Warwickshire and Cheshire’s Paul Waring finished third in the pairs last year.

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