GRANGE CLUB, ADELAIDE IS VENUE

AUSSIES STILL TO NAME TEAM FOR 

ASTOR TROPHY from JANUARY 12-16

Host nation Australia are the only country still to name their team of five for the Astor Trophy women's amateur international team match-play tournament - played every four years and formerly known as the Commonwealth Tournament - at the Greg Norman-designed course at Grange Golf Club, Adelaide in Australia.
The other competing countries in the January 12 to 16 highlight are defending champions Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.

Teams announced:

GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND
Hayley Davis (Ferndown GC and Baylor University, Texas)
Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies GC and  Kansas State University)
Bronte Law (Bramhall GC and UCLA: University California-Los Angeles)
Charlotte Thomas (Singapore and Washington University, Seattle)
Chloe Williams (Wrexham GC).

Captain: Elaine Farquharson-Black (Deeside)

*Elaine Farquharson-Black, a former Scottish women's and girls' champion, played in the winning GB and I team in this tournament at Northumberland GC in 1991. She also played in two Curtis Cups and two Vagliano Trophy matches. Bronte Law is the English women's amateur match-play champion. Hayley Davis is the English women's stroke-play champion. Charlotte Thomas was the first winner of the ANNIKA Invitational. Connie Jaffrey was runner-up in the 2014 Scottish women's open amateur stroke-play championship (Helen Holm Trophy) and the Scottish women's amateur match-play championship). Chloe Williams played for GB and I in the first Junior Vagliano Trophy match. She also has recent experience of playing in the Australian summer heat, having been part of the gold medal winning Great Britain team in the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in 2013, where she finished third in the individual event behind the winner Georgia Hall. Has won 11 of her last 12 match-play ties in the Women's Home Internationals.

SOUTH AFRICA
Lora Assad (Randpark GC and Texas State University) 22
Michaela Fletcher (Pietermaritzburg GC and Memphis Uni) 18
Eleonara Galletti (Royal Johannesburg GC) 16.
Ivanna Samu (Ruimsig CC) 16
Bertine Strauss (Rustenburg GC and Texas University) 22.

*Ivana Samu is the South African women's amateur champion

CANADA
Michelle Kim
Naomi Ko
Alisha Lau
Jaclyn Lee
Grace St-Germain 

NEW ZEALAND
Julianne Alvarez (Wellington)
Alanna Campbell (Bay of Plenty)
Chantelle Cassidy (Waikato)
Munchen Keh (Auckland)
Wenyung Keh (Auckland)

Team manager: Libby Steele

*Munchen and Wenyung Keh are sisters 

GB and I have won the Astor Trophy/Commonwealth Trophy seven times - 1959 (St Andrews), 1963 Royal Melbourne; 1967 Hamilton, Canada; 1971 Hamilton, NZ; 1975 Ganton.
Since then  Australia have won the title four times, GB and I three times  and Canada twice.

1983 Australia (Edmonton, Canada); 1987 Canada (Christchurch, NZ) 1991 GB and I (Northumberland); 1995 Australia (Royal Sydney); 1999 Australia (Vancouver, Canada); 2003 Australia (Remuera, NZ); 2007 GB  and I (Royal Johannesburg); 2010 GB and I (Fairhaven, Lancashire). 
Canada broke GB and I's five-in-a-row sequence by winning the title in 1979 at Perth, W Australia.