MEGHAN STASI A DEFINITE ENTRY FOR THE "BRITISH" at CARNOUSTIE

Ariya and Moriya Jutanuarn, the talented teenage Thailand sisters, with their father in the background. He is contemplating taking them over to Scotland for the British women's open amateur championship at Carnoustie June 26-30.

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Three times United States women's mid-amateur golf champion Meghan Stasi is making a return trip to Scotland to play in the British women's open amateur championship at Carnoustie from June 26-30. In 2008, as Meghan Bolger she was a member of the winning American team in the Curtis Cup match against GB and I over the Old Course, St Andrews. "Scotland has given me a lot of fond memories so I will definitely be coming over to Carnoustie for the British championship," said 33-year-old Florida-based Stasi (pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency), after her weekend victory in the final of the Jones-Doherty Challenge Cup match-play tournament, the last event of the Orange Blossom Tour in Florida.
Stasi, whose husband-to-be proposed to her on the Swilken Bridge over the 18th fairway at the Old Course in 2008, won the US mid-am title in 2006, 2007 and 20010.
She made her debut in the British women's open amateur championship at Ganton in 2010 when she lost to Kelsey MacDonald at the 19th in the semi-finals. A formidable match-player, Megan didn't quite make it to the match-play stages of last year's championship at Royal Portrush. She was on of 10 players on the 157 mark after the 36-hole qualifying test. Only two could get through to make a field of 64 for the match-play and Stasi was one of the eight squeezed out on a card play-off.
The talented Jutanugarn sisters from Bangkok, Moriya (17), winner of the South Atlantic championship on the Orange Blossom Tour two weeks ago, and Ariya (16), twice a runner-up on this month's Florida women's circuit, could be in the Carnoustie field as well.
Their father, who masterminds the pair's worldwide gollf schedule, says he will make up his mind towards the end of next month. Ariya is No 10 and Moriya No 18 in the current women's world amateur rankings.
Moriya was beaten finalist in last year's US women's amateur championship and won The Duke of York Young Champions' Trophy tournament - beating all the boys! - at Dundonald Links in 2009.