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8 Things You Didn't Know About Alfie Plant

Alfie Plant is having the time of his life this week at the Open at Royal Birkdale.

The Englishman is guaranteed to win the Silver Medal, after being the only one of five amateurs to make the cut.

The 25-year-old is from Bexleyheath in south east London.

Here are 8 things you didn't know about Alfie Plant:

1 Alfie is a member at Sundridge Park Golf Club in Kent

2 He won the European Amateur Championship earlier this month at Walton Heath, that's how he qualified for the Open. He won with a birdie at the fifth extra hole

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Team Alfie (Photo by Matthew Lewis/R&A/R&A via Getty Images)

3 This week he is being cheered on by a 150-strong group of family and friends making up 'Team Alfie', they have special T-shirts and hats

4 He won the prestigious Lytham Trophy in May last year at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club by a seven strokes

5 He currently ranks 32nd in the World Amateur Golf Rankings

6 He won the Silver Medal with team England at the 2016 Eisenhower Trophy in Mexico

7 He supports Millwall FC

8 His caddie this week is his brother Bert

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Plant joins the likes of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Jose Maria Olazabal , Chris Wood, Matt Fitzpatrick, and Sir Michael Bonallack to win the Silver Medal.

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Elliott Heath
News Editor

Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV