Mike Harwood and Peter O’Malley will fly the Australian flag at the inaugural Dutch Senior Masters this week after Peter Fowler elected to take the week off.

Harwood has been on a decent run of form on the European over 50’s circuit of late with five top-20 finishes in his last five events, the Victorian looking to improve his 18^th position on the Order of Merit with another good performance this week.

While the tournament is new on the schedule the venue is not, The Dutch playing host to the KLM Open on the European Tour just three weeks ago.

It is the second straight week the Senior Tour has followed their main Tour counterparts as last week’s host venue, Le Golf National, was also used by the under 50’s for the French Open in June.

O’Malley has played less events than his Victorian counterpart in 2017 and has struggled to find consistent form though his final round in Paris last week was his best of the tournament.

Le Golf National played difficult all week and the three-time European Tour winner’s Sunday 71 was bettered by only five players on the day.