THIS week has been another of achievement for Daniel Brown as the young man from Bedale familiarises himself with life on the England scene.

Brown has been at Formby Hall in Southport with the rest of the 17-man squad and when he returns to North Yorkshire tomorrow it will bring an end to his second training get together on the full international scene.

He is just one of three – along with Lindrick’s Joe Dean and Surrey’s Ben Wheeler – to be uncapped and joins the likes of double European amateur champion Ashley Chesters and English amateur champion Nick Marsh in the squad.

The full England set-up includes players based in England and in the USA, but Brown’s emergence caps off a fantastic year which has teed him up for a bright future.

There will be one more gathering – two weeks ago they met up at Woodhall Spa - of the England squad in December when a party will head for Portugal in preparation for the internationals in 2015.

Brown, on the development A-Squad last year, had already shot to prominence by posting strong finishes at the Biarritz Cup (tied 26), the European Amateur (tied 18) and the Waterford Trophy (tied 20).

Then he ended his competitive year by finishing third at the beginning of October in the North of England Amateur Championship at Pannal Golf Club.

As part of the A-Squad he won the Nations Cup in Chilberta and has got his handicap down to plus 4.5 at Bedale and there is a Darlington golfer pressing to join him at that level next year.

Andrew Wilson will be the only representative from the region to be involved in the development A-Squad after taking his game to a new level over the last 11 months.

Wilson, 20, finished just a place shy of Brown at Pannal and he also earned fourth spot in the Lee Westwood Trophy and a tied 23rd finish at the Midland Open Amateur Championship.

Hexham’s Matty Lamb is the only golfer from the region to be in the Under-18s squad. He is already a boy international and has intentions to force his way on to the A-Squad and beyond in the next couple of years.

At Under-16s level the situation is different. Almost 150 talented teenagers from across the country are selected by England Golf for regional training over the winter months in the hope of eventually earning full international honours.

In the northern section, Briony Bayles (Bishop Auckland), Ella Crang (Darlington), Jessica Hall (Bishop Auckland), Kitana Hollins (Ramside), Niamh Lendrum (Parklands) and Alexandra Stevenson (Beamish Park) make up the girls squad.

And Jack Ainscough (Hartlepool), Benjamin Bailey (Wynyard), Will Marshall (Heworth), William Skipp (Eaglescliffe) and James Wilson (Tyneside) make up the boys.

There is also representation from Middlesbrough in the Yorkshire team, with teenager James Swash included for the first time.