Yorkshire golf: Hallamshire's Alex Fitzpatrick and Huddersfield's Megan Lockett earn international calls

HALLAMSHIRE's Alex Fitzpatrick has been chosen to represent Great Britain & Ireland against the Continent of Europe in the Jacques Leglise Trophy match at Prince's, Kent, later this month
Hallamshire's Alex Fitzpatrick and Huddersfield's Megan Lockett have won international selection.Hallamshire's Alex Fitzpatrick and Huddersfield's Megan Lockett have won international selection.
Hallamshire's Alex Fitzpatrick and Huddersfield's Megan Lockett have won international selection.

And Huddersfield's Megan Lockett has been picked to play for Wales in the World Amateur Team Championship - Espirito Santo Trophy - at Mayakoba El Camaleón and Iberostar Playa Paraiso, in Mexico - from September 14-17.

The GB&I team, which will be managed by Peter McEvoy, will be looking to retain the trophy for the fourth consecutive match after last year’s contest at Royal Dornoch finished 12½-12½.

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They won a close contest 12½-11½ at Barsebäck in Sweden in 2014 and produced a 15-9 victory at Royal St David's in Wales in 2013.

GB&I has won 37 matches overall compared to 10 for the Continent of Europe.

England international Marco Penge will return as captain of the team and is joined from the 2015 team by Thomas Mulligan, who was runner-up to Mark Power in the Irish Boys’ Championship in June.

It was Power’s second win of the season after he claimed the Peter McEvoy Trophy in April. The third Irishman in the team is Kevin LeBlanc, who won the Junior Open in 2014.

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The format for the Jacques Leglise Trophy match is four foursomes ties each morning, eight singles matches on the afternoon of Friday, August 26 and nine singles matches on the afternoon of Saturday, August 27.

Lockett is a former Yorkshire amateur champion and got to the semi-finals in defence of her title on her home course at Huddersfield in May before losing in extra holes to eventual winner Megan Garland (Selby).

She recently represented Wales in the Home Internationals at Conwy, where the hosts finished runners-up to England, and lies third in the Welsh Order of Merit.