The 2024 Continent of Europe Jacques Léglise Trophy team is now complete.
Arthur Carlier (FRA), Scott Woltering (NED) and Viggo Olsson Mörk have been selected to join six previously announced players, and captain, Pierre Relecom (BEL), at West Lancashire Golf Club this week.
After Louis Klein (CZE) was forced to withdraw from the event due to injury, the three players complete the nine-strong team of U18s that will take on GB&I starting on Friday.
Selection to play in the biennial match, for male junior golfers, recognizes the players’ outstanding achievements in the amateur game.
THE TEAM:
Neo Berg (SWE)
Giovanni Binaghi (ITA)
Nils-Levi Bock (GER)
Oscar Couilleau (FRA)
Lev Grinberg (UKR)
Hugo Le Goff (FRA)
Arthur Carlier (FRA)
Viggo Olsson Mörk (SWE)
Scott Woltering (NED)
All three newly announced players will make their first appearance for the Continent of Europe this week.
Arthur Carlier (FRA) was part of the winning team at the European Boys' Team Championship in Austria last month where he finished top-10 in the stroke play qualifying and convincingly won his two singles matches in the quarter and semi-finals. More recently, the French junior finished runner-up in the Carris Trophy. He'll join two of his French teammates from the Boys' Team Championship, Le Goff and Couilleau, at West Lancs this week.
Scott Woltering (NED) has been one of the most in-form juniors in Europe this summer. Starting with a top-10 in the German Boys Open in June, The Dutch player has won his national match play championship, finished 5th in the Carris Trophy and runner-up in two national events in the span of the last few weeks. This weekend, Woltering reached the final of the Boys' Amateur Championship, narrowly missing out on a historic title.
The man that defeated Woltering in the championship match on Saturday, Viggo Olsson Mörk will join fellow Swede, Neo Berg, on the Continent of Europe team at West Lancs. Ranked just inside the 2000 mark in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, Olsson Mörk's victory at Moortown may may have come as a surprise to some.
Despite going as many as 5-down to Woltering in the final on Saturday, Olsson Mörk said supportive messages from family and friends were a big help in keeping him fighting. One of those messages came from non-other than former Boys' Amateur champion and friend, Albert Hansson. Olsson Mörk will follow in Hansson's footsteps, in addition to being a Boys' Amateur champion, as a Jacques Léglise Trophy player this week.
ABOUT THE JACQUES LÉGLISE TROPHY
The Jacques Léglise Trophy is an international match played every year between elite male junior golfers from the Continent of Europe and Great Britain & Ireland.
The EGA Selects the Continent of Europe team and hosts the match when played on the Continent, while The R&A selects the GB&I team and hosts every other edition.
The match can trace its origins back to 1958, when a one-day match between Europe and a combined English and Scottish team was played immediately before the Boys’ Amateur Championship. The England and Scotland team dominated to such an extent that the match was discontinued in 1966. It was rejuvenated in 1977 when the Jacques Léglise Trophy was presented by Jean-Louis Dupont, a renowned French amateur champion and former president of the EGA and French Golf Federation, and has been played every year since.
Up until 1995 it was played over one day in connection with the Boys’ Amateur, and since 1996 it has been played separately as a two-day match.
The Continent of Europe side will head into this year's match holding a team-record 4-match winning streak.
