England internationals Matthew Cryer (pictured left – photo courtesy of Tom Ward) and Paul Waring have been selected to represent the English Golf Union in the 79th Mexican Amateur Championship and International Pairs Tournament at the Mexico City Country Club on 23rd – 26th March.
Both are members of England’s Elite Squad and will have already undertaken overseas assignments before travelling to Mexico. The two players will be taking part in the South African Amateur Championship early in March while Waring was also part of the successful England team which took first place at the Costa Ballena Quadrangular Tournament in Spain in January.
Cryer, 30, who has a Bsc Hons in Geology from St Andrews University, has won many titles in the Midlands, including the Midland Closed, the Warwickshire Match Play, and the Midland Open Amateur Championship. He finished runner-up in the Portuguese Amateur last year and reached the quarter finals of the English Amateur. He made his full England debut in last September’s Home Internationals at Royal St George’s, Sandwich.
Waring, 21, has been on the international scene since being capped at under 16 level in 2001. He won the McGregor Trophy (English boys under 16 Championship) that same year, was a boy international in 2002 and England boys captain in 2003.
However, in 2004, after winning the Peugeot Classic in France and finishing second in the Duncan Putter, he endured several months sidelined by injury. After being out for nine months, he celebrated his return by becoming English champion over his home course at Bromborough last July. He then made his long overdue full England debut in September’s Home Internationals.
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 fourth 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. Last year Lincolnshire’s David Skinns competed and achieved a double win by taking the individual title and the pairs title with Lloyd Campbell from Kent.
Contact:
Lynne Fraser
EGU Marketing and PR Manager
Email: lfraser@englishgolfunion.org
Tel: 01526 354500
