Milton’s young Tiger claws his way into the England team

Golf - European Boys Team Championship

Hot Peterborough Milton prospect Robin Tiger Williams has earned an international call-up.

He is one of six of the country’s top young golfers to be named in the England team for this month’s European Boys’ Team Championship.

He joins Toby Briggs (Norfolk), Angus Flanagan (Surrey), Harry Goddard (Hertfordshire), Ben Jones (Northants) and Charlie Strickland (Sussex) in the team to play at La Manga, Spain, from July 11-15.

Williams, aged 15, is by far the youngest member of the team. All the others are either 17 or 18.

He has earned his selection on the back of a fifthplace finish in the Under 18 Peter McEvoy Trophy, where he fired rounds of 74, 70, 65 and 74, and a string of successful results in men’s events in South Africa early in the season. Williams South African results:

5th Curro South African Juniors International (72, 73, 72)

7th Free State Open (71, 66, 73, 70)

14th Northern Amateur Open (70, 73, 71, 71) 19th Gauteng North Open (73, 75, 68, 72) 32nd Cape Province Open (68, 74, 74, 74) 27th South African Strokeplay Championship (71, 71, 72, 68)

34th South African Amateuir Championship ( 69, 70)

35th African Amateur Stroke Play Champiponship (75, 74, 77, 74)

Williams also played in the British Amateur Championship at Royal St Georges last month and was well up after the first round with a 71. He shot a 76 in the second round.

Williams was born in South Africa but grew up in Peterborough and learned to play golf here. He won a world boys title in America when a 10 year-old pupil at Hampton Hargate School.

Last year he completed a two-year scholarship at the famous Bishops Gate Golf Academy in Florida.

The Gedney Hill pairing of Kerr Page and Peter Vintner just missed out on a place in the grand final of the £41,000 Lombard Trophy PGA Nation- al Pro-am Championship in Portugal.

In the regional final of the competition at Thetford Golf Club, the local duo were involved in a four-way tie with a seven-under-par score of 65.

But they were edged into third place on countback with Neil Oram and Lee Scarbrow from the John O’Gaunt Golf Club coming out on top.

Thorney Golf Centre’s Nicholas Burbridge and Alex Gifford were joint fifth with a 67.

It was club championship weekend at Nene Park for the men and seniors.

Men’s club champion for 2017 is Ian Symonds, who took the title with rounds of 71 and 75. That gave him a winning margin of 10 shots over runner-up Mark Tyler (81&75).

The best net total of 140 belonged to Ranu Odedra (68&72) with Andy Mason (69&72) a shot behind.

Over 66 senior champion is Terry Leverton with a net total of 134 (67&67) while Kevin Hawkins claimed the 55-65 age group honours with a net 131 total (71&60). Robin Tiger Williams has been picked for England.