LAUREN TAYLOR, CHARLIE HULL IN JUNIOR SOLHEIM CUP TEAM

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATIONTop England teenagers Lauren Taylor and Charley Hull have been selected for the European team for the PING Junior Solheim Cup to be played at Knightsbrook Hotel Spa & Golf Resort in Co. Meath, Ireland, from September 20-21.
It’s the first time England has had two representatives in the event, which always takes place immediately ahead of the Solheim Cup, to be played this year at Killeen Castle, Ireland, from September 23-25.
Lauren, 16, is the youngest-ever winner of the women’s British amateur championship. Since she won the title she’s played in the Ricoh Women’s British Open, helped England win the silver medal at the European girls’ team championship, won the Dutch Riverwoods girls’ open – and a place in next year’s LET Dutch Open – and become the first girl to win the annual Ian Poulter junior invitational.
Charley, 15, has just won the English women’s open strokeplay championship, with a 13-under par score. Earlier in the season she won on the US Orange Blossom Tour and captured the Welsh open strokeplay championship. She was also runner-up in the English women’s amateur championship. She became a full England international at the age of 14 and this year represented GB and I in the junior Vagliano Trophy.
Charley is currently 15th on the women’s world amateur rankings, while Lauren is 33rd. Both are members at Woburn.
The other members of the team are:
Emilie Alonso (France)
Amy Boulden (Wales)
Celine Boutier (France)
Manon Gidali (France)
Leona Maguire (Ireland)
Lisa Maguire (Ireland)
Emma Nilson (Sweden)
Antonia Scherer (Germany)
Luna Sobron (Spain)
Margaux Vanmol (Belgium).

Previous PING Junior Solheim Cup competitors include Paula Creamer, Anna Nordqvist, Morgan Pressel, Caroline Hedwall, Caroline Hedwall, Brittany Lincicome and Melissa Reid.

Lyndsey Hewison
EWGA
Press and PR Officer