BOY INTERNATIONALS OFF TO CANADIAN JUNIOR CHALLENGE
 England
is sending four of its title-winning Boys Home Internationals
squad to compete in the Canadian International Junior Challenge
at Royal Niagara Golf Club on 18th - 20th September.
The quartet, Andrew Johnston (North Middlesex), Matthew Nixon
(Ashton-under-Lyne), Garrick Porteous (Bamburgh Castle) and
Darren Renwick (Worthing), will compete in a nations cup-style
event, the best three scores from four each day to count.
Johnston (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward), 18,
a former under 16 cap, has enjoyed a highly successful past
two years, finishing runner-up in the South East Boys Championship,
reaching the semi-finals of the British Boys, and making his
debut in the Boys Home Internationals in Scotland, all in
2006. This year, he has finished runner-up in the McEvoy Trophy,
fifth in the Skandia Junior Championship in Sweden, was capped
in the European Boys Team Championships, and reached the last
16 of the British Boys. He was also a member of the victorious
GB&I Jacques Leglise Trophy team.
Nixon, 18, was the British Boys Champion last year and finished
runner-up in the Lancashire Championship as well as the Lancashire
Boys Championship. In 2007, he finished fourth in the Sir
Henry Cooper Junior Masters and tied seventh in the Lee Westwood
Trophy while making his debut in the Boys Home Internationals
in Wales when he claimed four points from six.
Porteous, 17, was selected for the Boys Home Internationals
but had to withdraw with injury. A former under 16 cap, the
Northumberland player represented England in a quadrangular
match in South Africa earlier this year before finishing runner-up
in the Fairhaven Trophy and third in the Carris Trophy.
Renwick, 17, is another former under 16 international who
stepped up to boys level in the recent Boys Home Internationals.
The Sussex player is a former winner of the Douglas Johns
Trophy who has been capped at under 16 level for the past
three years. Last year he finished fourth in the McEvoy Trophy
and this year represented England in the quadrangular match
in South Africa, while finishing sixth in the McEvoy Trophy
and the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters.
At Royal Niagara, the Canadian International Junior Challenge
is being played over nine holes of the Escarpment Course and
nine of the Iron Bridge Course.
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