Sandy Scott has withdrawn from the 2021 Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team due to a wrist injury, and will be replaced by first reserve, Jack Dyer, of England; for the Match against the United States of America at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Fla., May 8-9.
Competing in South Africa, Dyer recorded four top-10 results, including a runner-up finish in the South African Amateur Championship. Last year he won the South East of England Links Championship and finished fourth in the Brabazon Trophy. Playing for California State University-Fullerton, he recorded a runner-up result in the Orange County Collegiate Classic and third in the Sacramento State Invitational.
Jake Bolton moves to first reserve with USA-based Englishman Joe Pagdin added as second reserve.
Representing Florida State University, Pagdin has achieved top ten finishes in the Florida Gators Invitational this season and in 2020, the American Junior Golf Association Simplify Boys Championship at Carlton Woods and Western Amateur Championship. He has also represented GB&I in the Jacques Leglise Trophy and England in the R&A Boys’ Home Internationals and the European Boys Amateur Team Championship.
The GB&I team:
Barclay Brown (20, Hallamshire, England)
Jack Dyer (23, Boyce Hill, England)
Alex Fitzpatrick (22, Hallamshire, England)
Angus Flanagan (21, St George’s Hill, England)
Ben Jones (21, Northamptonshire County, England)
Matty Lamb (23, Hexham, England)
Joe Long (23, Lansdown, England)
John Murphy (22, Kinsale, Ireland)
Mark Power (20, Kilkenny, Ireland)
Ben Schmidt (18, Rotherham, England)
Reserves
1. Jake Bolton (22, Ogbourne Downs, England)
2. Joe Pagdin (19, Lake Nona, Fla., England)
Captain:
Stuart Wilson (43, Forfar, Scotland)