After his best performance of 2017 when runner-up at the recent Scottish Senior Open Mike Harwood will be looking to go one better in more ways than one at this week’s Willow Senior Golf Classic in England.

arwood was also runner-up at this event in its inaugural staging last year, three rounds of 68 seeing him finish just two shots behind winner Gary Marks.

Harwood was in outstanding form at the Scottish event two weeks ago making 12 birdies and dropping just two shots to be outright second.

Given that form he could be one to watch in the comfort zone of the Hanbury Manor Resort this week, a course he clearly found to his liking last year.

Harwood is one of four Australasians in the field, Peter Fowler, Peter O’Malley and New Zealand’s Greg Turner also making the trip to Hertfordshire.

Fowler will be looking to make his way back into the top 10 on the European Senior Tour Order of Merit to keep alive an impressive streak since joining the circuit full time in 2010.

Only twice in that time, his rookie year of 2010 and again in 2014, has the evergreen Fowler not been among the 10 highest earners at season’s end.

Like Harwood, Peter O’Malley found the Hanbury Manor course to his liking in 2016 and posted his best finish of the season with a T7 finish there.

He would be happy to repeat that performance this week as he has only one top 10 result to date in his 2017 campaign.

Greg Turner rounds out the Australasian challenge and despite playing a limited schedule has performed well in 2017.

He comes to the week off some solid golf at the Scottish Senior Open and will be ken to improve on a T13 result last year.