Lincolnshire golf clubs to host English girls’ championships

Lincolnshire will play host to almost 250 of England’s best girl golfers when they compete in three national championships later this month.
The English girls’ championship, sponsored by the sports scholarship consultancy firstpointusa.com, will take place at Seacroft Golf Club from 27-29 July.
The English girls’ U13 and U15 championships will take place simultaneously at Market Rasen Golf Club.
The three events will showcase girls’ golf and the fields will include junior internationals and players with handicaps as low as plus-two.
The English girls’ championship will be played as a 72-hole strokeplay event for the first time this year. The full field of 126 players will be cut to the leading 40 players and ties after the first two rounds.
The competitors include three players with plus-two handicaps: Heidi Baek from Suffolk, Alex Peters from Nottinghamshire and Hannah Turland from Wiltshire.
Among the other girl internationals in the field are the Warwickshire pair Lauren Taylor and Elizabeth Mallett, who won last year’s U15 title and went on to be runner-up in the 2009 British girls’ championship.
Every county in the country is represented in the championship and there are six players from Lincolnshire, led by Kirsty Condon, a two-handicapper from Blankney. A further four local players are taking part in the young age group events.
The U15 and U13 championships at Market Rasen are also full and packed with impressive players. Almost three-quarters of the 80 players in the U15 event hold single figure handicaps, as do eight of the U13s.
The older age group, who play 72 holes, include Dorset’s Georgia Hall, a scratch player who won last year’s U13 championship. The lowest handicapper in the field is Cheshire’s Bronte Law, who has just won the Northern ladies’ championship and will represent England in the girls’ Home Internationals. She plays off plus-one.
The Lincolnshire players include India Clyburn of Woodhall Spa, whose sister Holly won last year’s English girls’ title and went on to play in this season’s Curtis Cup.
The U13s will play 54 holes and the lowest handicapper is Sophie Madden from Essex, who plays off four. She’s followed by Alice Hewson from Hertfordshire who was third in the English schools’ championship where she had a hole in one. The other players include Victoria Mallett, who is following in the footsteps of her older sister, Elizabeth.

Lyndsey Hewison
Press and PR Officer
EGWA