The PGA has introduced the five-player staff which is able to signify Nice Britian & Eire on the 2024 Girls’s PGA Cup, which is going down at Sunriver Resort in Oregon, USA from October 3-5.
Led by captain Cathy Panton-Lewis, the GB&I staff contains 4 gamers who earned their locations by way of the 2023/24 Girls’s PGA Skilled Championship and WPGA Sequence, with the fifth spot being a captain’s choose.
Holly Morgan and Heather MacRae secured the primary two spots after the Girls’s PGA Skilled Championship, whereas Ali Grey and Marie Martindale claimed the subsequent two after the ultimate qualifying occasion earlier this week. Suzanne Dickens was then chosen to finish a powerful line-up.
This third staging of the occasion sees groups of 5 PGA Members compete towards their PGA Skilled counterparts from the US, Canada, Sweden, South Africa and Australia over three days. Each staff member will play 18 holes every day, with the bottom three out of 5 scores counting for the staff. The staff with the bottom 54-hole combination scores wins.
Panton-Lewis was delighted with a staff that comprises the expertise and expertise that she hopes will safe victory.
“I’ve acquired the perfect 5 gamers, and it’s actually thrilling,” she mentioned. “Marie and Holly are debuting, however they each deliver beneficial expertise from their time at American schools. Heather, Alison and Suzanne are seasoned gamers.
‘My focus is on serving to the gamers carry out their finest whereas protecting it enjoyable – it’s an necessary competitors, however I don’t need them to really feel nervous. I need them to benefit from the expertise.”
The 2024 Girls’s PGA Cup staff
Suzanne Dickens (Thorpe Wooden Golf Course, Cambridgeshire) – PGA in England & Wales (East)
Alison Grey (Ormskirk Golf Membership, Lancashire) – PGA in England & Wales (North)
Heather MacRae (The Gleneagles Resort, Scotland) – PGA in Scotland
Marie Martindale (Hampstead Golf Membership, London) – PGA in England & Wales (East)
Holly Morgan (Lindrick Golf Membership, Yorkshire) – PGA in England & Wales (North)
