Championships - Home International Matches 2007
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Dunbar Golf Club
28.08.2007
Dunbar hosts Home International Matches, 12-14 September 2007.
The Ladies’ Home International matches, one of the oldest of international team contests, breaks new ground when the four home countries meet at Dunbar Golf Club from 12-14 September.The inaugural matches were played to great enthusiasm in 1895 at Royal Portrush following the completion of the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship, only two years after the formation of the Ladies’ Golf Union. Since then, England have been the dominant force while Wales have only one winning series to their name, in 1999 at Royal Dornoch.
The English side is led by Melissa Reid, without doubt the number one player in the British Isles. In addition to her recent win in the British Stroke Play Championship, she earlier in the year triumphed in the Helen Holm, the St Rule Trophy and won the amateur salver in the Ricoh Women’s British Open. Also in their eight-strong team are Naomi Edwards, the English champion, Rachael Jennings, last year’s English Girls’ champion and Kent-based Claire Aitken, the English Mid-Amateur champion.
England have selected all five Vagliano Trophy players, while from that same team, Wales include Sara Hassan and Breanne Loucks and Ireland, Tara Delaney.
Vagliano Trophy reserves Jenna Wilson and Michele Thomson are in the Scottish team alongside their girls’ champion Carly Booth and the losing finalist Megan Briggs.
These latter two players, along with Kelsey MacDonald and Pamela Pretswell were members of the Scottish team that won the recent Girls’ Home International series.
ENGLAND
Jenny Clink (Captain)
Claire Aitken (London)
Holly Aitchison (Bedfordshire)
Rachel Bell (Ganton)
Elizabeth Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor)
Naomi Edwards (Ganton)
Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton)
Danielle Montgomery (Lambourne)
Kerry Smith (Waterlooville)
IRELAND
Phil O' Gorman (Captain)
Claire Robinson (Manager)
Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor)
Karen Delaney (Carlow)
Tara Delaney (Carlow)
Niamh Kitching (Claremorris)
Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co. Down Ladies')
Maura Morrin (The Curragh)
Gillian O'Leary (Cork)
Marian Riordan (Tipperary)
SCOTLAND
Jayne Smith (Captain)
Sharon McMaster (Manager)
Carly Booth (Comrie)
Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm)
Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar)
Laura Murray (Alford)
Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder)
Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle)
Michele Thomson (McDonald)
Jenna Wilson (Strathaven)
WALES
Tegwen Matthews (Captain)
Anna Hubbard (Manager)
Tara Davies (Holyhead)
Stephanie Evans (Vale of Llangollen)
Lucy Gould (Bargoed)
Lydia Hall (Royal Porthcawl)
Becky Harries (Haverford West)
Sahra Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan)
Breanne Loucks (Wrexham)
Rhian Wyn Thomas (Vale of Glamorgan)
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