
Now the European Junior Ryder Cup team has been announced, europeantour.com finds out a little more about the players taking part in the contest at Gleneagles...
Name: Isabella Deilert
Country: Sweden
Date of birth: 05.06.1994
Club: Agesta
Achievements: Won the 2010 Swedish Junior Match Play and the 2010 European Young Masters.
Interests: Dancing, gym, Facebook
Name: Thomas Detry
Country: Belgium
Date of birth: 13.01.1993
Club: Royal Golf Club of Belgium
Achievements: 2009 – tied second in the European Young Masters, winner of the Dutch Junior International, played in the KLM Open on The European Tour.
2010 - winner of the European Boys Team Championship, runner-up in the French Boys’ Championship, runner-up in the Belgian National Match Play
Interests: Tennis, hockey, cycling, sciences
Name: Juhana Eerik Kukkonen
Country: Finland
Date of birth: 16.09.1994
Club: Oulun Golfkerho
Achievements: Third in the European Young Masters 2010
Interests: Skiing, cycling
Name: Albert Sakari Severiano Eckhardt
Country: Finland
Date of birth: 15.01.1994
Club: St Lawrence Golf
Achievements: Under-16 Finnish Stroke Play Champion, European Young Masters Champion 2010, fourth in Under-16 Italian Open
Interests: Ice hockey, gym
Name: Kristoffer Ventura
Country: Norway
Date of birth: 24.02.1995
Club: Moss og Rygge
Achievements: Won the European Boys Team Championship Individual, runner-up in the European Young Masters 2010
Interests: Football, table tennis, swimming, Mexican food
Name: Amy Boulden
Country: Wales
Date of birth: 06.08.1993
Club: Maesdu
Achievements: 2010 - Won the Murcia Open, runner-up in the St Rule Trophy (lost in a play-off), qualified for the Women’s British Open , won the Caernafonshire and Anglesey County Championship, reserve for Curtis Cup, won Bridget Jackson Trophy
Interests: Music, gym, shopping
Name: Manon Mollé
Country: France
Date of birth: 10.11.1994
Club: St Cloud
Achievements: Second in the European Young Masters, reached the semi-final of the French Girls Championship, won three Grand Prix events (Cognac, Ploemeur, Vendé)
Interests: Cinema, cycling
Name: Kelly Tidy
Country: England
Date of birth: 08.02.1992
Club: Royal Birkdale
Achievements: Twice winner of English Under-13 Championship, twice winner of English Under-15 Championship, won Welsh Under-21 Championship, runner-up twice in British Girls Championship, played Junior Ryder Cup in 2008, was the only unbeaten European in the 2009 Solheim Cup, British Ladies Amateur Champion 2010, competed in the 2010 Women’s British Open
Interests: Gym, shopping, going out with friends
Name: Manon Gidali
Country: France
Date of birth: 15.10.1993
Club: Racing Club de France
Achievements: Third in the 2010 French International Stroke Play, quarter finalist in the 2010 French International Ladies Junior Amateur Championship, won the French Team Championship in 2009 and 2010, won the 2010 Under-18 European Team Championship, third in the 2010 European Individual Championship
Name: Moritz Lampert
Country: Germany
Date of birth: 14.05.1992
Club: Golf Club St Leon Rot
Achievements: 2010 – won the German Boys Championship, won the French Boys Championship
2009 – Won the German Match Play Championship, runner-up in European Boys Championship
2008 – third in European Young Masters, played in Junior Ryder Cup, won the Swiss Amateur Championship
Name: Chris Lloyd
Country: England
Date of birth: 06.02.1992
Club: Kendleshire Golf Club
Achievements: Named in the England squad for the 2010 Men’s Home Internationals and the squad for the Jacques Leglise Trophy, won the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and the County Champions Tournament in 2009, runner-up in the 2010 McEvoy Trophy
Interests: Music
Name: Klara Spilkova
Country: Czech Republic
Date of birth: 15.12.1994
Achievements: Won the 2010 German Girls Open and the Austria Amateur Championship, reached the semi-final of the French International Lady Junior Amateur Championship, third in the 2010 French Girls
Interests: Reading, music