Jack Swift of North Foreland Golf Club has been named in England Golf’s three-player boys’ team for the Boys’ & Girls’ Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan.
Swift will represent the boys alongside Harry Cox and Sam Marshall while Lauren Crump, Charlotte Naughton and Matilde Santilli are in the girls’ team.
Jack Swift – will be Japan-bound in June for the Junior Golf World Cup. Picture: England Golf
The event will take place from Tuesday, June 24, until Friday, June 27, at Chukyo Golf Club.
It’s the first time England Girls have qualified, England Boys having won three of the 30 editions of the competition to date, having started back in 1992.
England Golf deputy performance director Steve Burnett said: “It’s an honour to have both the England Girls’ and Boys’ teams invited to Japan to compete in the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup for the first time together.
“For decades now, this tournament has been the gold standard for international junior golf and it’s an experience the players will never forget.”
Swift wrote himself into the record books at North Foreland, Convent Road, Broadstairs, as he stormed to the Club Championship title – at the age of just 13 – in 2021.
This year, he has already won the Darwin Salver.
England’s last triumph came in 2002 while, in the individual standings, they haven’t had a champion since Matthew Richardson that year.
The competition has seen previous individual victors include world stars like Joaquin Niemann, Rasmus Hojgaard and Corey Conners.
Other names, such as Ludvig Aberg, Nicolai Hojgaard and CT Pan, have made the podium.
