JAYDEN PHIPPS, ONLY SIX, BOUND FOR WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Golf prodigy Jayden Phipps has been chosen to represent Great Britain at a tournament in California - at the age of just six.
Jayden Phipps has been hailed as the new Tiger Woods after the six-year-old impressed coaches with his skills.

The schoolboy has been impressing with his golf swing ever since he was given a plastic set of clubs as a toddler.

When he was two-years-old, Jayden was able to hit a ball into a plastic cup 10 times in a row.

At the age of four, he was scoring holes in one using just one hand and teeing off from a ball balanced on his father's mouth.

And last year, he even beat golfing legend Colin Montgomerie in a pros versus amateurs competition at a trick shot show - when he managed to get his ball just a few centimetres away from the target in a single shot.

Now, the talented primary schoolboy is the youngest player chosen to represent Great Britain in the prestigious World Junior Callaway Championships in California next month - where he will compete against golfers more than twice his age.
Mother Karen, 46, from Wednesbury, West Midlands, said: "We knew Jayden was something special when he had his first set of plastic clubs and knew how to swing and putt when he could barely walk.
"Neither me nor his dad are really into golf so we didn't realise how good he was - but what he was doing looked right.
"We took him on a day out to a family-fun golf day, when he was two, because he liked it so much, and we were inundated with trainers asking if they could coach him.
"We haven't pushed him to do anything, because we don't know how to - I have no idea where he gets his talent from.
Jayden was recruited to the GB team after being placed in the top four of a national junior golf tournament, organised by the British Junior Golf Tour, held at the Three Hammers Golf Club, in Wolverhampton.
Jayden said: "It's really exciting to get a hole in one. I love it.
"My best ever moment was beating Colin Montgomerie at the trick shot show. I'd love to be a golfer when I grow up.
"I can't wait to go to America and play golf. I would love to win.
"Playing golf is just really easy."
Steve Adams, Director of the British Junior Golf Tour, said: "The standard among the kids is spectacularly high at these competition.
"Jayden is a great golfer and he'll have the time of his life out there.
"We have a team of 12 juniors playing in the tournament, and Jayden is the youngest, with some of them aged up to 17.
"The Callaway Junior Championships are where the world's best golfers all started off - so Jayden is in good company."