No Maguire twins but Danielle spearheads Irish

challenge for 'British' at Ganton this week
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Curtis Cup star Danielle McVeigh (RCDL) will lead the Irish challenge at the 107th British Amateur Championship at Ganton in Scarborough, Tuesday 22nd to Saturday 26th June 2010.
McVeigh, who just returned from Curtis Cup duty in Boston last Monday, is looking to continue her strong form and add the British Matchplay to her British Strokeplay title won at Royal Aberdeen last August. The Yorkshire course with its “linksy” feel, has long been a favoured venue of the Irish since Lillian Behan beat Claire Waite on the home green in the 1985 final.
Curtis Cup team mates Leona and Lisa Maguire have withdrawn from the event as they recover from the exertion of last weekend’s loss to the United States.
Joining McVeigh is International team mate Gillian O’Leary (Cork), Sarah Cunningham (Ennis) and Aedin Murphy (Carlow). All three made the stiff qualification criteria of playing off scratch or lower while only one of the eight players on 0.4 survived the ballot for the 144th place.
On paper, the best player in the field is Carlota Ciganda, a former champion from the Spanish city of Pamplona. A student at Arizona State University, Carlota has a handicap of +6, marginally better than another US college student, Caroline Hedwall from Sweden who has a handicap of +5.The third lowest handicap in the field belongs to the 2009 Australian Women’s Champion Justine Lee from New South Wales who, off +4, finished Runner-up to England’s Hannah Burke at the recent Irish Women’s Open Strokeplay at Newlands.
The event tees off with two stroke-play qualifying rounds on Tuesday and Wednesday producing 64 qualifiers for the match-play stages. The tournament climaxes with the semi-finals and final on Saturday.