PGA Cup duo face off at Nuneaton

PGA Cup teammates Cameron Clark and Lee Clarke are set to face off against each another at the PGA England & Wales Inter-County Championship qualifier at Nuneaton Golf Club.

The duo, who have both qualified to play in the ten-man Great Britain & Ireland team to face America at CordeValle, California, later this month, will tee up for Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire respectively at the Midlands venue on September 3.

The championship, the newest on The PGA’s national tournament schedule having first been staged in 2013, will culminate in a £10,000 final over the Belfry’s PGA National Course on October 13-14.

Beeston Fields’ Clarke has had a stunning year so far and won the PGA Fourball Championship alongside Tapton Park’s Jack Lynch, who will represent Derbyshire at the Nuneaton qualifier, just last month.

He will tee up alongside fellow Nottinghamshire pros William Davis (Nottinghamshire GC) and Shane Peacock (Oakmere Park) at the former Ryder Cup venue, host to the biennial matchplay event on four separate occasions.

Moor Hall’s Clark meanwhile will head into the tournament alongside Jamie Taylor (Olton) and Steve Carter (Walmley).

The Warwickshire trio will go in with high hopes after Clark secured a share of second place in the flagship PGA Professional Championship earlier this summer.

Other counties competing in the regional qualifier at Nuneaton include: Lincolnshire; Adam Keogh (Spalding), Scott Emery (Woodhall Spa) and Daniel Greenwood (Forest Pines); Northamptonshire; Jon Handyside (Priors Hall), David Poolton (Collingtree Park) and Matthew Hodgkiss (Brampton Heath); and Staffordshire; Daniel Higgs (Walsall), Simon Lynn (Trentham Park) and Mark Butler (Mark Butler Golf Academy).