GLOUCESTERSHIRE’S Jack Cope is one of eight players selected for the 2016/17 England boys’ golf squad for the first time.
Norfolk’s Toby Briggs is the only player to hold his place from last year’s squad.
Cope, 17 and a member at Minchinhampton, had top three finishes in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters, the South of England Boys’ Open and the South West Boys’ county qualifier.
He reached the matchplay stages of the British Boys’ Championship.
As well as helping England win the Canadian International Junior Challenge he finished eighth individually and was sixth on the England Boys’ Order of Merit for 2016.
Team: Toby Briggs, 17, (Dunston Hall); Barclay Brown, 15, (Hallamshire); Jack Cope, 17, (Minchinhampton); Danny Daniels, 17, (Essendon); Angus Flanagan, 17, (St George’s Hill); Michael Gilbert, 16, (Chelmsford); Conor Gough, 14, (Stoke Park); Thomas Plumb, 17, (Sherborne); Kristian Tannum Donaldson, 17.
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