Medway golfer Matt Haines is virtually certain to make his Walker Cup debut for Great & Ireland against the USA next month.

at Merion GC in Pennsylvania on September 12-13.The 19-year-old Rochester & Cobham Park GC member has been included in a final squad of 10 for the biennial amateur international, to be held

And although one of the 10 could still be left out if a British or Irish player wins the US Amateur Championship later this month, and thus earns automatic selection for the Walker Cup, it is highly unlikely that Haines would be the player to make way in view of the consistent form he has shown since making his England debut against France last year.

Squad: Wallace Booth (Comrie), Gavin Dear (Murrayshall), Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall), Luke Goddard (Hendon), Matt Haines (Rochester & Cobham Park), Stiggy Hodgson (Sunningdale), Sam Hutsby (Liphook), Niall Kearney (Royal Dublin), Chris Paisley (Stocksfield), Dale Whitnell (Five Lakes). Reserves: Paul O’Hara (Colville Park), Rhys Enoch (Truro).