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IRELAND READY TO LAUNCH IN ARGENTINA
2010 WORLD WOMEN’S AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
ESPIRITO SANTO CUP
OLIVOS & BUENOS AIRES GOLF CLUBS, ARGENTINA
18th October 2010
Danielle McVeigh (RCDL) and the sensational Maguire twins, Leona and Lisa (Slieve Russell), are all set to launch Ireland’s challenge on the Espirito Santo Trophy at the World Amateur Team Championships at Olivos Golf Club, Buenos Aires, 20-23 October 2010.
The Irish team, captained by Claire Robinson (Knock), left Ireland last Wednesday and have acclimatised well to the Argentinian temperatures over the past five days. The players will have played four practice rounds, two at Olivos Golf Club and two at Buenos Aires Golf Club, before they tee it up around 6 am on Wednesday morning with strong hopes of improving on the 24th place secured at Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia, two years ago.
With arguably Ireland’s strongest team to date, all three represented Great Britain & Ireland at the Curtis Cup earlier this year and ranked in the top four of the side’s most valuable players. The three finished runners up to Scotland at the Women’s Home Internationals last month and will be ably guided by Ireland’s highly reputed High Performance Manager David Kearney this week.
Captain Robinson can afford to be optimistic, “we’re pleased with our practice to date and the girls aren’t experiencing any difficulties with the daily temperatures” she said as the first competitive day approached. “We are well prepared, will take one shot at a time and at this point we just want to get going” she added.
With temperatures a cool 14 centigrade by night and a pleasant 25 by day, the humidity of around 50% will cause marginal concern to the players. Each will play four rounds, two over each course, with the two best scores from three to count each day. In 2008, Ireland’s MeVeigh, Tara Delaney (Carlow) and Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) finished twenty-fourth, behind England in seventh, Scotland in twelfth and Wales in twenty third positions.
Defending Champions Sweden will hope to capture back-to-back titles in this biennial event run by the International Golf Federation in conjunction with the host nation's governing body of golf. A record number of 53 entries, from all over the world, will compete for the Espirito Santo Trophy.
The IGF is the recognised international federation for golf for the International Olympic Committee and was founded to encourage the international development of the game and to employ golf as a vehicle to foster friendship and sportsmanship.
The World Amateur Team Championships is just one of the means employed to achieve this goal. Introduced with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower's stamp of approval, the inaugural tournament was held on The Old Course at St Andrews in 1958. Half a century later, the Championships are still going strong and will return to Argentina for just the second time and the first since 1972.
For the first time in either championship, Olivos Golf Club is the first to host for a second time. The women's championship began in 1964 and the last championship in Australia saw Ireland finish 24th from the 48 women's teams that competed.
2010 WORLD WOMEN’S AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
ESPIRITO SANTO CUP
OLIVOS & BUENOS AIRES GOLF CLUBS, ARGENTINA
18th October 2010
Danielle McVeigh (RCDL) and the sensational Maguire twins, Leona and Lisa (Slieve Russell), are all set to launch Ireland’s challenge on the Espirito Santo Trophy at the World Amateur Team Championships at Olivos Golf Club, Buenos Aires, 20-23 October 2010.
The Irish team, captained by Claire Robinson (Knock), left Ireland last Wednesday and have acclimatised well to the Argentinian temperatures over the past five days. The players will have played four practice rounds, two at Olivos Golf Club and two at Buenos Aires Golf Club, before they tee it up around 6 am on Wednesday morning with strong hopes of improving on the 24th place secured at Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia, two years ago.
With arguably Ireland’s strongest team to date, all three represented Great Britain & Ireland at the Curtis Cup earlier this year and ranked in the top four of the side’s most valuable players. The three finished runners up to Scotland at the Women’s Home Internationals last month and will be ably guided by Ireland’s highly reputed High Performance Manager David Kearney this week.
Captain Robinson can afford to be optimistic, “we’re pleased with our practice to date and the girls aren’t experiencing any difficulties with the daily temperatures” she said as the first competitive day approached. “We are well prepared, will take one shot at a time and at this point we just want to get going” she added.
With temperatures a cool 14 centigrade by night and a pleasant 25 by day, the humidity of around 50% will cause marginal concern to the players. Each will play four rounds, two over each course, with the two best scores from three to count each day. In 2008, Ireland’s MeVeigh, Tara Delaney (Carlow) and Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) finished twenty-fourth, behind England in seventh, Scotland in twelfth and Wales in twenty third positions.
Defending Champions Sweden will hope to capture back-to-back titles in this biennial event run by the International Golf Federation in conjunction with the host nation's governing body of golf. A record number of 53 entries, from all over the world, will compete for the Espirito Santo Trophy.
The IGF is the recognised international federation for golf for the International Olympic Committee and was founded to encourage the international development of the game and to employ golf as a vehicle to foster friendship and sportsmanship.
The World Amateur Team Championships is just one of the means employed to achieve this goal. Introduced with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower's stamp of approval, the inaugural tournament was held on The Old Course at St Andrews in 1958. Half a century later, the Championships are still going strong and will return to Argentina for just the second time and the first since 1972.
For the first time in either championship, Olivos Golf Club is the first to host for a second time. The women's championship began in 1964 and the last championship in Australia saw Ireland finish 24th from the 48 women's teams that competed.
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