England pair selected for Team GB golf at Youth Olympics

England players Lily May Humphreys and Joe Pagdin have been selected to represent Team GB at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

They’re among 42 athletes selected by the British Olympic Association to compete in 17 sports at the Games, which run from the 6th–18th October.

 Humphreys, 16, from Stoke by Nayland Golf Club in Essex, is one of England’s youngest ever Curtis Cup players and is a multiple winner. This year she became the Scottish women’s open amateur champion and last year she won English, British and European titles and also had her first victory in the USA.

 Pagdin, 16, hails from Sheffield, Yorkshire, but is based at Lake Nona in Florida, where he competes successfully. He was a semi-finalist at the British Boys’ Championship, was in England’s winning teams at the Boys’ Home Internationals of 2017 and 2018 and has just helped GB&I beat continental Europe to win the Jacques Leglise Trophy.

 Humphreys is in the England Golf women's squad while Pagdin is a member of the boys' squad.

 Team GB consists of athletes aged between 14 and 18 years old, with the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) playing a crucial role in the development of young athletes from the United Kingdom and across the world.

 Buenos Aires 2018 is expected to welcome just under 4,000 of the world’s best young athletes from 206 nations for the third edition of the Games following Singapore 2010 and Nanjing 2014.

The Games will also make history through its commitment to gender equality by becoming the first Olympic event to host the same number of male and female athletes with 1,999 of each set to compete in Argentina.