CHARLEY HULL WINS ENGLAND GIRLS AND WOMEN'S MERIT TITLES

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION
Teenager Charley Hull is England’s number one – twice over. The 15-year-old has just become the first player to win both the ladies’ and the girls’ orders of merit, sponsored by the golf holiday company Lorrin Golf.
The ladies’ order of merit tracked 460 players during 2011, while over 200 players figured on the girls’ table.
Charley, pictured left by Cal Carson Golf Agency, from Woburn, finished the season almost 500 points clear of Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) at the top of EWGA’s ladies’ table. In the girls’ order of merit she was just over 600 points ahead of British women's champion Lauren Taylor (Woburn).
During the season Charley won the English and Welsh women's open stroke-play championships and the Jones Doherty match-play championship on Florida’s Orange Blossom Tour. She was also runner-up in the English amateur championship.
She was in England’s winning team at the ladies’ Home Internationals and has just teamed up with Lauren Taylor take fifth place for England in the women’s event at the Spirit International Amateur Championship in Texas.
Charley’s schedule is based around women’s events but she also made some junior outings at top-notch events: representing GB and I in the inaugural junior Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe, and playing for Europe in the PING Junior Solheim Cup.
Charley is currently 11th in the women’s world amateur rankings.
Leading final positions

EWGA Ladies’ order of merit
1 Charley Hull (Woburn)
2 Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa)
3 Lauren Taylor (Woburn)
4 Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton)
5 Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale)
6 Charlotte Wild (Mere)
7 Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough)
8 Lucy Williams (Mid-Herts)
9 Rachael Goodall (Heswall)
10 Ellie Robinson (Middlesborough)

EWGA Girls’ order of merit
1 Charley Hull (Woburn)
2 Lauren Taylor (Woburn)
3 Bronte Law (Bramhall)
4 Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough)
5 Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak)
6 Hayley Davis (Ferndown)
7 Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham and St Annes)
8 Brogan Townend (Pleasington)
9 Alex Peters (Notts Ladies’)
10 Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies’)

Full details: www.englishwomensgolf.org