Reports: Three of Ireland's most promising youngsters will expand their experience of international competition after being selected to play in the Turkish Amateur Championship at Kemer Golf and Country Club near Istanbul, starting on Thursday.

In a busy end-of-season time for the Irish amateurs, Paul O'Hanlon of the Curragh, Conor Doran of Banbridge and Holywood's Harry Diamond will play in the 72-hole strokeplay championship, with a cut after 36 holes.

And the elite amateur team of Brian McElhinney of North West, Seán McTernan of Co Sligo and Darren Crowe of Dunmurry, plus reserve Richard Kilpatrick of Banbridge, will this week be trying to go one better than Galway's Mark O'Sullivan last year in the Nassau Invitational Open Championship in Long Island, New York.

This is a three-day event with 18-hole qualifying and the top 16 going into a matchplay series. Last year O'Sullivan reached the final.

Meanwhile, the Irish Seniors team (over 55s) for the Home Internationals, to be played at Aberdovey Golf Club in North Wales, starting today, shows five changes from the side that won the title last year.

England won the inaugural Seniors Home International at Portmarnock three years ago, beating Ireland, Wales and Sweden, who replaced Scotland that year.

Two years ago, at Nairn Dunbar, England won again, while they finished third behind Ireland and Wales at Seaton Carew GC, Hartlepool, England, last year.

Tipperary's John O'Donoghue and Michael Malone from Belvoir Park are the only survivors from that side, while into the Irish team come Bert Burke (Moate), Hugh Donnelly (South County), Michael Morris (Portmarnock), Joe Murphy (Glengarriff) and Noel Pyne (Ennis). Non-travelling reserves are Eddie Condren (Greystones), Tony Goode (Lucan) and Peter Cowley (Cork).

The team will be captained by Limerick's Jack Lynch.

Morris, a former Kerry All-Ireland footballer, won the Irish Seniors Championship at Roscommon this year and made his Seniors international debut in the European Seniors Nations Cup at La Baule Golf Club, France, in June. He won the Irish Close Championship at Carlow in 1978 and represented Ireland at senior level from 1978 to 1984.

England will field three new caps when they bid to regain the title: Gordon Broster from Devon, Kent's Howard Moxon and Alan Squires from Lancashire.

The rest of the team is Douglas Arnold, David Lane, Jon Marks and Roy Smethurst.

Broster, from the Padbrook Park club at Cullompton near Exeter, was the South West Seniors Champion in 2000 and has had two top-10 finishes in the British Seniors Championship since 1999. This year, he has finished fifth in the English Seniors at John O'Gaunt and joint third in the Scottish Seniors at Alyth.

Broster has also represented the UK Seniors, against South Africa and Botswana.

Moxon is the Kent Seniors Champion from Royal Cinque Ports and finished runner-up to Smethurst for the English title back in June.

Squires, in his first season as a senior, having turned 55 in January, will be the team's junior member. A stalwart of Lancashire golf for many years, he is a former Lancashire champion and captain and played well over 100 times for his county.

Smethurst is the number one English senior, having won the national title for the third time at John O'Gaunt in June. A former British champion, the Crewe man was beaten in a play-off for the European title at La Baule and was in the top 10 in the Scottish Seniors.

Arnold, from Sussex, completed back-to-back wins in the English Seniors Championship in 2002 and 2003 and, like Smethurst, lost a play-off for the European crown, in France last year.

Lane is another top senior, having won the British title once, the English Seniors twice and the Scottish Seniors Championship. The man from Berkshire has also been South East Seniors champion and is the current BB&O Seniors champion.

Marks, from Suffolk, is another senior regular, having won the English and the South East Seniors titles.

The sides will play each other on a round-robin basis, each match consisting of two foursomes and five singles, all over 18 holes.

IRELAND: Bert Burke (Moate), Hugh Donnelly (South County), John O'Donoghue (Tipperary), Michael Malone (Belvoir Park), Michael Morris (Portmarnock), Joe Murphy (Glengarriff), Noel Pyne (Ennis). Captain: Jack Lynch (Limerick).

ENGLAND: Roy Smethurst (Crewe), Douglas Arnold (Copthorne), Gordon Broster (Padbrook Park), David Lane (Goring and Streatley), Jonathan Marks (Woodbridge), Howard Moxon (Royal Cinque Ports), Alan Squires (Oldham). Captain and manager: Richard Palmer.

WALES: Brian Cramb (Tenby), John Gottwaltz (Tenby), JR Jones (Conwy), Phil Jones (Bromborough), Keith Stimpson (Wenvoe Castle), George Stowe (Aberdovey), John Whitcutt (Burnham and Berrow).