Boost for golfer Oliver Farr’s Walker Cup hopes
Monday 18th April 2011, 1:10PM BST.
Shropshire golfer Oliver Farr has given his hopes of appearing in the Walker Cup a major boost.
Ludlow’s Farr successfully defended the Trubshaw Cup, one of the biggest events of the amateur season in Wales, by a massive nine shots.
And that was the perfect response to missing the cut in the Duncan Putter at Southerndown – another title he was defending – a week earlier.
Farr carded rounds of 69 and 66 at Ashburnham on Saturday, the latter being a new course record.
And he signed for identical rounds at Tenby, the other host course of the Trubshaw Cup, yesterday to finish nine clear of Welsh international team-mate Rhys Pugh.
Farr has been included in the initial 23-man Great Britain & Ireland squad to face the Americans in the Walker Cup – the amateur version of the Ryder Cup – at Royal Aberdeen in September.
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