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England secures five slots in
Curtis Cup team
19 April 2004
 Five
English players have been selected for the 2004 Curtis
Cup match v USA announced today. Emma Duggleby
(Malton & Norton) makes her third appearance while
Fame More (Chesterfield) retains
her place from 2002. New caps go to two Kent players,
Danielle Masters (Tudor Park) and
Nicola Timmins (Sene Valley), and
the British Stroke Play Champion Shelley McKevitt
(Reading). Ireland, Scotland and Wales have one player
each - Claire Coughlan, Anne Laing and Anna Highgate.
The non-playing captain is Ada O'Sullivan of Ireland.
The English players made their
final bid for selection in an excellent win at the
Weetabix Challenge against a team of Ladies' European
Tour professionals at Formby. The amateurs beat the
pros 14½ to 9½.
Emma Duggleby said “I am
delighted to make the Curtis Cup team, this will be
my third time and I have a good understanding of the
home support having played at Ganton four years ago.
We have a fantastic team and we will definitely do
well in June. Michelle Wie, the high profile player
from America will increase the Formby visitors and
global interest in ladies’ golf and this is
good for the game”.
The Curtis Cup is to be played
on 12th and 13th June at Formby Golf Club. A Great
Britain and Ireland win would see all four major team
trophies, Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup, Walker Cup and Curtis
Cup on this side of the Atlantic for the first time
ever. Tickets
are available from the LGU.
Player details
Emma Duggleby,
32, is certainly the most experienced player in the
side with a record of four wins, three defeats and
one half from the 2000 and 2002 Curtis Cup matches.
Last year she added a second English Ladies’
title to her achievements, led the English Order of
Merit and already this year has taken second place
in the South Atlantic Championship.
Fame More, 22,
has represented GB&I since the 2001 Vagliano Trophy
match in which she won all four matches. She also
played two years later at County Louth and in the
Curtis Cup in 2002 at Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania. In
2003 she finished fourth in the Ladies British Stroke
Play and reached the quarter finals of both the Ladies’
British Match Play and English Match Play Championships.
Shelley McKevitt is
a 24-year-old from Reading who studied sport and exercise
science at the University of North Carolina. She lifted
her first major title in 1997 when she won the English
Girls’ Championship and from 1998 till 2003,
played most of her competitive golf at college in
America. In 2003 she had a single shot win in the
Ladies’ British Stroke Play Championship, won
the New Zealand Women’s Amateur Championship
and reached the semi final stage of the English Match
Play Championship at Aldeburgh. She also represented
GB in the Commonwealth Tournament.
Danielle Masters,
at 21, from Maidstone, is one of the younger members
of the team and first came to the notice of selectors
with her wins in the English Under–21 and Under–23
Championships. After making steady progress, she led
the qualifiers in the 2003 Ladies’ British Championship
at Lindrick and was rewarded last year with a place
in the team for the Vagliano Trophy.
Nicola Timmins,
23, is a maths teacher at Pent Valley Technology College,
and manages to combine top level amateur golf with
her career in education. In 2003 she was selected
to play for England in the Home Internationals and
the European Championships and in the same year won
the English Ladies’ Intermediate Championship
at Notts Ladies’ Golf Club.
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