England Golf has named its European Young Masters team for Parador de El Saler in Spain, with Mariella Buchanan, George Cooper, Georgia Richardson and Alfie Turner selected to represent England from 23-25 July.

It is a tidy little quartet, and not one travelling merely for the tapas. England are searching for a first team victory in the competition since 2017, with a side that mixes recent form, junior pedigree and the sort of tournament mileage that tends to matter when the scorecard starts looking less like arithmetic and more like character assessment.

England’s Four-Player Side For Spain

Mariella Buchanan of Bristol & Clifton in Gloucestershire, George Cooper of Doncaster in Yorkshire, Georgia Richardson of Stoneham in Hampshire and Alfie Turner of Trentham in Staffordshire will carry England’s hopes at Parador de El Saler.

The competition, first staged in 1995, has now had 30 editions. Spain remain the most decorated team with eight titles, which should give the hosts a certain swagger and everyone else a useful target.

England’s own benchmark years remain 2013 and 2017. In those winning campaigns, Bradley Moore took the individual boys’ title in 2013, while Lily May Humphreys won the girls’ event in 2017. That is the sort of detail that sits quietly in the background until a young player stands over a six-footer and remembers that someone wearing the same badge has done this before.

England Golf Hall of Famer Janet Melville will serve as Team Captain, with John Watson as Team Coach.

A Recent English Thread Runs Through The Event

England’s young players have hardly been strangers to the sharp end of this championship. Ellie Lichtenhein, part of the England Golf Girls’ Squad, won the girls’ title last year, while Annabel Peaford did the same in 2024. Ben Bolton, from the England Golf Men’s Squad, was boys’ champion in 2023.

The roll call goes further back, too. Ben Parker won the boys’ event in 2003 and Caitlin Whitehead took the girls’ title in 2018.

Then there is the wider European Young Masters alumni list, which includes Sergio Garcia, Carlota Ciganda and Matteo Manassero. That does not guarantee anything, of course. Golf is not a family tree. But it does remind everyone involved that this event has a habit of identifying players before the rest of the game starts leaning over the rope for a better look.

Mariella Buchanan Arrives With A Deep Results Sheet

Mariella Buchanan brings one of those junior records that requires careful reading and possibly a second cup of coffee.

She tied for seventh at the 2026 English U18 Amateur Championship Mixed event, finishing as the top female player in the field. That alone would travel well. Add runner-up finishes at the 2025 Junior European Open with Sky Sports and the 2025 Rock Golf League European Championship, plus third at the 2025 Scottish Girls’ U16 Open Championship, and the picture becomes clearer.

Buchanan also finished fifth at the 2025 West of England Open Amateur Match Play and secured top-10 finishes at the 2025 English Girls’ Stroke Play Championship, Helen Holm Scottish Women’s Open, Northampton Tigress, Fairhaven Trophy and World Junior Golf Championship.

Her 2024 results were hardly decorative either: fourth at the 32nd Junior European Open with Sky Sports, third at the Triple A European Masters, sixth at the Triple A Championship, winner of the Bronte Law Junior Series event at Delamere Forest, and third at the Cumberwell Park event.

That is not a résumé built on one hot week. It is a pattern.

George Cooper Adds High-Level Consistency

George Cooper has been prominent in several serious junior events in 2026, which is generally preferable to peaking during the family fourball and calling it momentum.

The Doncaster player tied for second at the 2026 Peter McEvoy Trophy, finished third at the 2026 French International U18, the Trophee Michel Carlhian, and tied for third at the 2026 English U18 Amateur Championship Mixed event.

He was also fourth at the 2026 Welsh Open Youths Mixed event, tied fifth at the 2026 Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and tied sixth at the 2025 North of England U16.

For England, that is valuable. At a tournament like the European Young Masters, consistency is not a luxury item. It is the foundation you try to build before the wind, the course and the leaderboard start asking impolite questions.

Georgia Richardson Earns Her Place

Georgia Richardson of Stoneham has also put together the sort of results that put selectors on notice.

She tied fourth at the 2026 Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters, tied seventh at the 2026 Fairhaven Trophy and finished 10th at the 2026 Midlands U16 Girls Amateur Stroke Play Championship.

Those finishes point to a player already comfortable around strong fields. There is a particular steel in young golfers who keep showing up near the top of leaderboards. It is not always dramatic. It is often better than that.

Alfie Turner Brings Winning Form

Alfie Turner heads to Spain with a win already on the board this year, having finished first at the 2026 World WAGR Series #1 Robert Rock.

He also tied first at the 2026 Boys’ County Championship and was second at the 2025 North of England U14 Junior Stroke Play. Add tied-second finishes at the 2025 Reid Trophy and Belgian International U14 Golf Championship, tied third at the 2025 Scottish U14 Mixed Open Championship, and third at the 2025 Midlands Champion of Champions Final, and Turner’s recent record becomes hard to ignore.

He also posted top-10 finishes at the 2026 English Under 18 Amateur Championship Mixed event and the Peter McEvoy Trophy.

It is a strong body of work for a player stepping into an England side with genuine opportunity in front of it.

El Saler Offers A Proper Test

Parador de El Saler gives this year’s European Young Masters a fitting stage. England arrive with a blend of form and precedent, but the charm of junior golf is that reputation only gets you to the first tee. After that, the ball becomes gloriously unsentimental.

For Buchanan, Cooper, Richardson and Turner, the challenge is straightforward and difficult in equal measure: turn individual promise into team substance, and see whether England can close the gap to a victory that has been waiting since 2017.

There are easier assignments in golf. There are few more useful ones for finding out exactly what young talent is made of.