Francesca Fiorellini and Carolina Melgrati will likely be a part of the Workforce Europe that may face the Asia Pacific choice within the fourth version of the Patsy Hankins Trophy that will likely be performed from 8 to 10 January on the Al Hamra Golf Membership course within the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, within the United Arab Emirates. It’s the ladies’s model of the Bonallack Trophy, which is able to happen on the similar time, the place two groups of 12 gamers will face one another with a system that recollects the Ryder Cup mannequin: 5 foursome matches and the identical variety of fourball within the first two days and 12 singles within the third. 32 factors are up for grabs (1 for a win, half a degree for a draw and 0 for a loss).
Patsy Hankins Trophy, schedule
Along with the 2 Italians, the continental staff, led by Dutch Myrte Eikenaar, will embrace the Danes Emma Bunch and Marie Eline Madsen, the Irish Beth Coulter and Aine Donegan, the English Endurance Rhodes and Lottie Woad, primary on the planet, the Swedes Louise Rydqvist, European champion, and Nora Sundberg and the Spanish Rocio Tejedo and Carolina Lopez-Chacarra.
The Asia Pacific staff, led by Joanne McKee of Hong Kong, is Mirabel Ting (Malaysia), Eila Galitsky and Suvichaya Vinichaitham (Thailand), Soo-min Oh and Min-seo Jeong (Korea), Mamika Shinichi and Aira Nagasawa (Japan), Arianna Lau and Sophie Han (Hong Kong), Cindy Hsu Huai-chien (Taiwan), Vivian Lu (New Zealand) and Ren Yijia (China).
Within the biennial showdown, which started in 2016 and is devoted to New Zealander Patsy Hankins (1945–2015), one of many world’s most revered golf directors, the steadiness is in favor of the Asians who lead by two wins to at least one (the 2020 showdown was not performed as a result of pandemic). The reigning champions are the Europeans who gained in 2023 in La Manga, Spain, by 19 to 13, with Francesca Fiorellini within the staff, led by the reconfirmed Eikenaar, who was additionally captain of the Continent of Europe Junior Vagliano Trophy within the final 5 years. Within the first two editions, Jap successes: in 2016 (17-15 in Portugal) with New Zealander Libby Steele as captain and in 2018 (23.5-8.5) in Qatar with McKee herself as captain, recalled after the defeat suffered in 2023 by the staff led by Liz McKinnon, additionally New Zealander.
Among the many present proettes, who participated within the occasion as amateurs, the Australian Hannah Inexperienced, the Japanese Yuka Saso and Nasa Hataoka, the Thais Patty Tavatanakit and Atthaya (now Jeeno) Thitikul, the Singaporean Shannon Tan, the German Helen Briem and the Austrian Emma Spitz.
Two different Italians have competed within the race: Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso (2016) and Bianca Maria Fabrizio (2016, 2018).
