WORLD NO 3 AMATEUR BROOKE HENDERSON COMING OVER FROM CANADA

 

Georgia Hall with the trophies she won at Machynys Peninsula, South Wales last June.

  

GEORGIA HALL TO DEFEND BRITISH 

TITLE AT ROYAL ST GEORGE'S, KENT

PRESS RELEASE FROM LADIES’ GOLF UNION

Eighteen-year-old Georgia Hall, the winner of the 2013 Ladies British Amateur Championship, will defend her title next month at The Royal St George’s Golf Club.

The Championship will be played between June 24 and 28, and has attracted probably the strongest 144 player field in its history, with competitors of handicaps higher than +0.5 having been balloted out.

Georgia will return from representing Great Britain and Ireland against the USA at the forthcoming 38^th Curtis Cup at St Louis Country Club, Missouri, USA, just two weeks before the defence of her crown.  
 Currently ranked 6^th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking^TM, she won in style last year at Machynys  Peninsula, South Wales, adding the British title to the Gold Medal she had won in January 2013 at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, the event which heralded golf’s return to the Olympics.

The British Amateur field sports no fewer than seven players with handicaps of +4 and better, with the lowest handicap being Su-Hyun Oh, pictured with the leading match-play qualifier trophy in the 2013 championship, from the Metropolitan Golf Club, Australia, who, with a handicap of +6.3 is ranked number 5 in the world. 

World No 3 Brooke Henderson (Canada) will also make the trip to Sandwich. The best handicapped Great Britain and Ireland player is Hall’s Curtis Cup team-mate, Gemma Dryburgh of Scotland.

The 2014 Championship will be hosted at The Royal St George’s Golf Club for the first time in the 121 year history of the event, and there is no doubt the players are delighted to be visiting these challenging links which have hosted no less than 14 Open Championships. While this is the first year the Club has hosted the Ladies British Amateur, it is no stranger to women’s golf championships and matches. 
In 1988, it was the venue for the Curtis Cup, in a match successfully defended by the team from Great Britain and Ireland.

It is fitting that, as well as Hall and Dryburgh, another four members of the 2014 GB and I Curtis Cup team have entered the Amateur Championship – Annabel Dimmock, Bronte Law, Gabrielle Cowley and Eilidh Briggs.

The players in this Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship are likely to be the backbone of the ladies’ professional tours in years to come, and spectators are welcome to come and watch these top amateurs, and next generation professional stars, in competitive action at Royal St George’s next month.