Essex’s Jack Dyer has been called into the GB&I Walker Cup team after Sandy Scott was ruled out for next month’s match in America due to a wrist injury.
The 22-year-old England ‘A’ squad member moves up from the position of first reserve to take Scott’s place for the 2021 match, which is being held at Seminole Golf Club in Florida on May 8-9.
England men’s squad player Jake Bolton, from Ogbourne Downs GC in Wiltshire, now becomes the first reserve for the team, while Florida-based Joe Pagdin, who is involved in England Golf’s overseas squad for 2021, has been drafted in as second reserve.
Dyer, who is a member at Boyce Hill Golf Club in Essex, has enjoyed an excellent run of form in the last year. Last summer, he posted course record scores at both the English Men’s Amateur Championship at Woodhall Spa and the Brabazon Trophy at Sherwood Forest.
Earlier this year, he travelled to South Africa and continued his rich vein of form when finishing tied 12th in the South African Stroke Play Championship and sixth in the African Amateur Championship.
He then claimed victory in the South African Amateur Championship Stroke Play event to progress to the match play stages where he lost in a 36-hole final.
Dyer joins fellow countrymen Barclay Brown, Alex Fitzpatrick, Angus Flanagan, Ben Jones, Matty Lamb, Joe Long and Ben Schmidt in captain Stuart Wilson’s GB&I team which also includes Irishmen John Murphy and Mark Power.