New faces in England women and girls’ squads

Issued 5th February, 2018 New faces in England women and girls' squads Bel Wardle - courtesy of Image Photography  Bel Wardle, who has just won the Portuguese women's amateur, is among 10 players in the England Golf women's squad for 2018.  Wardle (pictured), also the English women's open and English girls' champion, moves up from the girls' squad, alongside three other players.  They are Lily May Humphreys, whose four wins in 2017 included the British girls' title; Annabell Fuller who was runner-up to Wardle in Portugal; and her older sister and fellow international Sammy Fuller.  Sammy Fuller is one of five players who are US-based while they study at university in America. The others are Curtis Cup player Alice Hewson, Emma Allen, Louisa Brunt and India Clyburn.  The squad is completed by Georgia Price and Sophie Lamb, who was leading amateur at the Ricoh Women's British Open.  The England Golf girls' squad includes five new players, who join established members Martha Lewis, Mimi Rhodes, Amelia Williamson and Hannah Screen, the runner-up in the British women's stroke play. They are Yorkshire's Charlotte Heath and Nicola Slater; Buckinghamshire's Thalia Kirby, who was runner-up in the English U16 girls' championship; Gloucestershire's Ebonie Lewis and Cumbria's Caitlin Whitehead. Women's squad Emma Allen, 21, Meon Valley, Hampshire Louisa Brunt, 19, Royal Birkdale, Lancashire India Clyburn, 21, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire Lily May Humphreys, 15, Stoke by Nayland, Essex Annabell Fuller, 15, Roehampton, Surrey Sammy Fuller, 18, Roehampton, Surrey Alice Hewson, 20, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire Sophie Lamb, 20, Clitheroe, Lancashire Georgia Price, 24, Bude & North Cornwall Bel Wardle, 18, Prestbury, Cheshire  Girls: Charlotte Heath, 16, Huddersfield, Yorkshire Thalia Kirby, 16, Harleyford, Buckinghamshire  Ebonie Lewis, 17, Knowle, Gloucestershire Martha Lewis, 18, St George's Hill, Surrey Mimi Rhodes, 16, Burnham & Berrow, Somerset Hannah Screen, 18, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire Nicola Slater, 17, Woodsome Hall, Yorkshire  Caitlin Whitehead, 15, Kendal, Cumbria  Amelia Williamson, 17, Royal Cromer, Norfolk