Nixon and Senior fly flag for England in Turkey this week

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Two of Lancashire’s finest young talents will fly the flag for the English Golf Union in the Turkish Amateur Open Championship later this week.
Matthew Nixon (Ashton-under-Lyne) and Jack Senior (Heysham) will contest the 72-hole stroke play event over the Old Course at Gloria Golf Club in Antalya on the Turkish Riviera from Thursday to Sunday.
Nixon, 20, is a former British boys' champion who reached the quarter finals of the English Amateur at Woodhall Spa last year. Capped at boys level in 2007, he helped Lancashire win the English County Championship last year and has enjoyed a successful 2009.
He was a joint winner of the Henriques Salver for the best GB&I players aged under 20 in the Brabazon Trophy, finished runner-up in the Selborne Salver and the Lancashire Championship, third in the West of England Stroke Play and he made his full England debut in the winning Home Internationals team.
Senior, 21, was reserve for the Home Internationals, having finished runner-up in the West of England and third in the Lytham Trophy this year. In 2008, he finished runner-up in the North of England Youths Championship and third in the Lancashire Championship and the Lee Westwood Trophy and he was a member of the winning Lancashire team in the English County Finals.