England Golf has named its six-player squad for the Octagonal Match at Costa Ballena Ocean Golf Membership, Spain, from 22-25 January.
Eliot Baker, Ben Bolton, Daniel Hayes, Tom Osborne, Dylan Shaw-Radford and Charlie Rusbridge will likely be heading out to Spain for England’s first group occasion of the calendar 12 months.
The event is a match play occasion in spherical robin format, with two teams of 4. Every group performs one match per day, with the highest group from every group contesting for the championship on the ultimate day.
England have gained the event six occasions because it was launched in 2001, successful the inaugural occasion, in addition to in 2005, 2006, 2014, 2016 and 2020.
Males’s Efficiency Supervisor Ben Gorvett mentioned: “It is going to be a aggressive week with a number of proficient gamers and arising in opposition to nations from round Europe will at all times gas a want to carry out effectively. It is going to check the gamers in a match play format which is a good way to kickstart 2025, a 12 months that features the World Beginner Group Championship and the Walker Cup.”
Meet the group
Eliot Baker, 22 (Tiverton, Devon)
– Gained the 2024 West of England Beginner Match Play
– Gained the 2023 South East of England Hyperlinks Championship, and completed Third in 2024
– Completed 4th at 2024 Brabazon Trophy and loved top-10 end at 2024 Tillman Trophy
– Represented England in biennial 2024 worldwide match with France
– In 2023, loved top-10 finishes at Lytham Trophy, Bernard Darwin Salver and the R&A Scholar Tour Collection Closing, in addition to a Third-place end at BUCS Stirling Worldwide
Ben Bolton, 17 (Enville, Staffordshire)
Gained the 2024 Spanish Boys’ Beginner Championship
– Helped England decide up the silver medal at 2024 European Boys’ Group Championship
– A part of the England group which gained the 2024 Boys’ & Women’ Dwelling Internationals
– Represented GB&I within the 2024 Jacques Leglise Trophy
– Represented England at 2024 Junior Golf World Cup in Japan, 2024 biennial England v France worldwide match, and 2023 Octagonal Match in Spain
– In 2024, Third-place end at German Boys’ Open and Peter McEvoy Trophy, and top-10 finishes at Brabazon Trophy, Carris Trophy and Lytham Trophy
– In 2023, gained European Younger Masters in Slovakia, Faldo Collection Grand Closing (UAE), Faldo Collection England Midlands Championship, and Edge Golf Championship 4 (Portugal)
Daniel Hayes, 18 (Bramhall, Cheshire)
Gained the 2024 Carris Trophy and completed tied-2nd after going to a play-off within the 2024 English U18 Beginner Championship
– Gained the 2024 Lancashire Hyperlinks Trophy earlier than ending tied-2nd within the 2024 Brabazon Trophy, only a shot behind the winner, however did decide up the George Henriques Salver for being the main under-20 participant on the occasion
– Represented GB&I in 2024 Jacques Leglise Trophy
– In 2024, represented England in Octagonal Match in Spain, Junior Golf World Cup in Japan, and European Boys’ Group Championship
– Represented England at 2024 Ladies’s & Males’s Dwelling Internationals
– Reached the quarter-finals of 2024 R&A Boys’ Beginner Championship
– Since July 2023, loved 11 top-five finishes in USA, UK and Spain, together with successful the Cheshire Cat twice, the Lancashire Hyperlinks Trophy, and ending Third at 2023 Spanish U18 Worldwide Championship
Tom Osborne, 22 (Lindrick, Yorkshire)
– Made the final 16 of 2024 R&A Beginner Championship and quarter-finals of 2024 English Beginner Championship
– Represented England at 2024 Ladies’s & Males’s Dwelling Internationals
– High-10 end at 2024 Brabazon Trophy
– Helped Yorkshire to the Males’s County Finals title in September 2023
– In 2023, gained the Duncan Putter and Yorkshire Beginner Championship, and had top-10 finishes at Welsh Males’s Open Stroke Play Championship, Danny Willett Salver, Hampshire Salver and Tillman Trophy
– Tied-Thirteenth end at latest South American Beginner Championship
Dylan Shaw-Radford, 19 (Huddersfield, Yorkshire)
Winner of the 2024 Sunningdale Foursomes alongside Harley Smith
– High-20 end at 2024 European Beginner Championship and reached the final 16 of R&A Beginner Championship
– Represented England v France in biennial worldwide match in 2024
– Represented GB&I within the 2023 Jacques Leglise Trophy
– Represented England in 2023 European Group Championship, Ladies’s & Males’s Dwelling Internationals (winners), in addition to worldwide match in opposition to Spain
– Completed 2nd at 2023 Irish Males’s Beginner Open Championship, behind solely England’s John Gough
– Completed seventh at 2023 Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan
– Represented Yorkshire in 2023 Boys’ County Finals the place they completed runners-up
Charlie Rusbridge, 16 (Colne Valley, Essex)
Gained the Justin Rose Telegraph Junior Golf Championship in December 2024
– In 2024, gained English U18 Beginner Championship, Essex Beginner County Championship, Keating Trophy, and FET – Portugal
– Additionally completed Third at U18 French Open and 4th at Fairhaven Trophy in 2024
– Helped England decide up silver on the 2024 European Boys’ Group Championship and bronze at European Younger Masters
– Helped Essex win the 2024 Males’s County Finals for the primary time since 2009
– In 2023, gained Estuary Trophy and completed 2nd in Essex Beginner County Championship
