ELLEN PORT TIPPED TO BE NAMED AS US 2014 CURTIS CUP CAPTAIN

ELLEN PORT ... tipped to be named the US team captain for next year's Curtis Cup match at St Louis Country Club, Missouri

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By JULIE WILLIAMS  
When the biennial Curtis Cup match makes its first trip to Missouri in June, 2014, the United States  team will be in local hands.
Ellen Port, 51, a five-time US Golf Association champion who played in the 1994 and 1996 Curtis Cups, will captain the Americans in their bid to regain the trophy from Great Britain and Ireland’s top female amateurs, a source close to the selection process said.
An official announcement is expected this week from the USGA Port would not comment ahead of it.
Port, of St. Louis, won eight Missouri Women’s Amateur titles and holds membership in the Missouri and St. Louis sports halls of fame.
The reigning U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur champion, she has also won four U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur titles. 
Ellen teaches physical education and coaches golf at John Burroughs School in St. Louis.
The U.S. team, which lost the 2012 Curtis Cup in Nairn, Scotland, leads the series, 27-7-3.
Tegwen Matthews, the winning GB and captain at Nairn, has already been chosen to lead the team of eight who will bid to retain the trophy at St Louis Country Club which celebrates its centenary year in 2014.
The course was designed by *Charles Blair Macdonald.
The next Curtis Cup match on this side of the Atlantic will be held in Ireland at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, a 27-hole championship course at Ballyman Glen, on the border of counties Dublin and Wicklow.

*Charles B Macdonald was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario to naturalised American parents — a Scottish father and Canadian (part Mohawk) mother — and grew up in Chicago. 
In 1872 at age 16, he was sent to St Andrews University, and while there he took up playing golf with a vengeance. Tutored by Old Tom Morris, Macdonald soon became proficient enough that he played matches on the Old Course against several of the leading golfers of the day, including Young Tom Morris. 
Macdonald returned to Chicago in 1874 and became a successful stockbroker.