SIX MONTHS AFTER CURTIS CUP TRIUMPH, WHERE ARE THE NOW>
BACK ROW (l to r); Team Manager Anna Hubbard, Charley Hull (failed to make last-day top 30 at LET Q School, still an amateur as yet), Pamela Pretswell (Gained 2013 LET playing rights by winning LETAS Order of Merit, a professional), Holly Clyburn (Gained pass marks at LET Q School, having already turned pro), Leona Maguire (still at high school).
FRONT ROW (l to r) Bronte Law (will be a student at University of California-Las Vegas from next August), Kelly Tidy (Failed to make fourth-day cut at LET Q School, having already turned pro), team captain Tegwen Matthews, Amy Boulden (Failed to make fourth-day cut at LET Q School, still an amateur), Stephanie Meadow (student at University of Alabama). +At this moment only Hull, Law, Boulden, Leona Maguire and Meadow are still eligible for selection to the GB and I team for the Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe next June.
FROM THE GOLFWEEK WEBSITE
By JULIE WILLIAMS
The amateur season roared in with talk
of the Curtis Cup in Scotland, and died down with the Women’s World
Amateur Team Championship in Turkey, which made patriotism a big part of
2012. But in terms of women’s amateur golf, 2012 also was the year of
the Kiwi (read: Lydia Ko) and the last amateur summer of the Jutanugarn sisters.
Golfweek is spending 10 days counting down the top amateur players of the past year. Who will be No. 1? Who else will make the list? Check back each day.
2012 in review: Won Harder Hall Invitational; made cut at Kraft Nabisco Championship; GB&I Curtis Cup team; qualified for Ricoh Women’s British Open
Controversy surrounded Hull at the beginning of the year after it was announced that she had received one of a handful of sponsor exemptions set aside for top amateurs at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Playing in the Kraft, her first LPGA major, would cause Hull to miss a practice session for GB and I Curtis Cup hopefuls. Missing that session, the LGU said, meant she couldn’t play for the team.
Hull kept a low profile, and upon arriving at the Kraft, learned she had been selected to the team anyway. It was the right deision.
In Curtis Cup singles, Hull claimed the biggest margin of victory among her GB and I team-mates, defeating America’s top college player Lindy Duncan, 5 and 3.
Hull plays out of Woburn Golf Club in England, which is the same course to which Ian Poulter belongs. The 16-year-old caused a sensation in America a year ago when she showed up for the Florida Orange Blossom Circuit, but by 2012 she was a well-known amateur. What’s most noticeable about Hull is her aggressive swing.
Though petite, Hull takes a cut at the ball that’s unmatched by her peers. She also has an incredible amount of patience and poise for her age. It showed this summer as she made a series of professional starts around the world. She had made four by the time she arrived at the Women’s British, where a first-round 71 left her in contention. After a second-round 80, however, she failed to make the cut.
EDITOR: Just to update Julie Williams' article, Charley Hull looked certain to gain pass marks at the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School Final Stage in Morocco this past weekend into Monday but a bad last round saw her just fail to gain playing rights on the 2013 LET.
Charley played at Marrakech as an amateur but the word is that, even though she is only 16, she will turn pro sooner rather than later. Where she will play is not clear at the moment.
Maybe Charley can tell us?
E-mail Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Golfweek is spending 10 days counting down the top amateur players of the past year. Who will be No. 1? Who else will make the list? Check back each day.
No. 4: Charley Hull
R and A’s World Amateur Golf Ranking: 72012 in review: Won Harder Hall Invitational; made cut at Kraft Nabisco Championship; GB&I Curtis Cup team; qualified for Ricoh Women’s British Open
Controversy surrounded Hull at the beginning of the year after it was announced that she had received one of a handful of sponsor exemptions set aside for top amateurs at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Playing in the Kraft, her first LPGA major, would cause Hull to miss a practice session for GB and I Curtis Cup hopefuls. Missing that session, the LGU said, meant she couldn’t play for the team.
Hull kept a low profile, and upon arriving at the Kraft, learned she had been selected to the team anyway. It was the right deision.
In Curtis Cup singles, Hull claimed the biggest margin of victory among her GB and I team-mates, defeating America’s top college player Lindy Duncan, 5 and 3.
Hull plays out of Woburn Golf Club in England, which is the same course to which Ian Poulter belongs. The 16-year-old caused a sensation in America a year ago when she showed up for the Florida Orange Blossom Circuit, but by 2012 she was a well-known amateur. What’s most noticeable about Hull is her aggressive swing.
Though petite, Hull takes a cut at the ball that’s unmatched by her peers. She also has an incredible amount of patience and poise for her age. It showed this summer as she made a series of professional starts around the world. She had made four by the time she arrived at the Women’s British, where a first-round 71 left her in contention. After a second-round 80, however, she failed to make the cut.
EDITOR: Just to update Julie Williams' article, Charley Hull looked certain to gain pass marks at the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School Final Stage in Morocco this past weekend into Monday but a bad last round saw her just fail to gain playing rights on the 2013 LET.
Charley played at Marrakech as an amateur but the word is that, even though she is only 16, she will turn pro sooner rather than later. Where she will play is not clear at the moment.
Maybe Charley can tell us?
E-mail Colin@scottishgolfview.com
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