EGU: LUPTON AND MORGAN PICKED FOR PORTUGUESE AMATEUR

Internationals Jonathan Lupton and John Morgan have been selected to represent England in the Portuguese Amateur Championship at Estela, Porto, on 13-18 March.

Yorkshireman Lupton, from the Middlesbrough club, who reached the semi-finals of the English Amateur Championship at St Mellion in 1999, has yet to win full England honours but was capped at boys level and was reserve for the European Youth Team Championship in Scotland last year.

He will celebrate his 22^nd birthday later this month, while Somerset-based Morgan, who turned 23 in December, made his England international debut against France at Chart Hills last May.

A member of the Clevedon club, Morgan won the West of England Match Play Championship last year as well as finishing runner-up in the West of England Strokeplay while reaching the quarter finals of the English Amateur at Royal Lytham.

The Estela course is situated on the coast north of Porto and has the appearance of a British links layout. It is particularly tough when the wind blows and was the scene of a six-man playoff for the Atlantic Open on the European Tour in 1990, eventually won by Scotland’s Stephen McAllister.