The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Teenage golfing talent Hugo Kedzlie has received yet another accolade after being selected for the England squad for next month’s McGregor Trophy.
Played at Royal Ashdown Forest in Sussex from July 12-14, the McGregor Trophy is the English under-16 boys’ open championship – with the first two rounds serving as the Nations Cup.
Spalding Golf Club ace Kedzlie, who is 15, will be part of one of two teams representing England as they bid to defend the trophy.
His team-mates will be James Cooper (Cumberwell Park) and Harry Goddard (Hanbury Manor).
Team two is Charlie Daughtrey (Yorkshire), Charlie Hilton (Sussex) and Charlie Salter of (Northamptonshire).
Cooper, Goddard and Daughtrey all represented England in the under-16 international against Spain last month.
England won the Nations Cup last year on 14-under par – and were 17 shots clear of the runners-up. The best two scores count from each team on each day.
The call-up caps what is already a fine season for Spalding young gun Kedzlie.
A regular winner at the Surfleet course, he was also ninth in the under-16 spring championship, 16th in the Midland boys’ county championship and qualified 24th in the Fairhaven Trophies.
Kedzlie’s team-mate Cooper was runner-up at the U16 spring championship at Hawkstone Park and ninth in the Peter McEvoy Trophy, while Goddard is the North of England under-16 boys’ champion, was third in the 2015 German Junior Masters and ninth in this season’s Fairhaven Trophies.
