Championships - Vagliano Trophy 2007
Jul 27-28, 2007
Fairmont St Andrews, Scotland
The team of 9 players who will represent Great Britian & Ireland will be announced at The Alwoodley Golf Club on Saturday 16th June 2007.
Mary McKenna is the Team Captain.
Two consecutive weeks of the best of women’s golf will run at St Andrews following the announcement that the Vagliano Trophy will be played on The Torrance Course at Fairmont St Andrews, Scotland (formerly St Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa) on 27 and 28 July 2007. Website
Last year, details were given of the Ricoh Women’s Open Championship that will be played over the Old Course from 2-5 August 2007 and this latest statement confirms that the world’s best professionals and Europe’s top amateurs will be providing a double attraction for spectators at St Andrews.
In announcing details of the Vagliano Trophy, Susan Simpson, Championship Secretary of the LGU said: "We are delighted to have secured Fairmont St Andrews (formly St Andrews Bay) for the Vagliano Trophy as the resort provides almost unrivalled facilities of two fine championship courses and a hotel of the highest standard. "
"When the opportunity arose to run the Vagliano Trophy in the week prior to the Weetabix, we were quick to realise the importance of two such prestigious events being played at the Home of Golf in back- to-back weeks."
Stephen Carter, General Manager, formly known as St Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa said: "Fairmont St Andrews (formly St Andrews Bay) is delighted to be given the opportunity to host the Vagliano Trophy in 2007. It will be an honour for everyone here to work closely with the Ladies Golf Union in bringing such a prestigious ladies' golf tournament to St Andrews Bay and the Kingdom of Fife. It promises to be a very exciting couple of weeks for ladies’ golf and we are all very excited about being a part of it."
Players from both teams will be given exemption from pre-qualifying for the Ricoh Women’s Open Championship, one of the four major championships in women’s professional golf.
The Vagliano Trophy is a biennial competition between the amateurs of GB&I and Europe and while the four matches from 1995 to 2001 resulted in wins for the Continent, GB&I reversed that trend in 2003 at County Louth with a narrow 12½ – 11½ win.
It was last played in Scotland in 1999, at North Berwick.
Ashers Bakery have kindly donated special Vagliano cakes for this event.
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