2014 Espirito Santo Trophy – Storylines
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2014 Espirito Santo Trophy – Storylines USA COLLEGE ALL-AMERICANS — Following is a listing of the 12 players from the 2014 WWATC who were named to the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-America teams for 2013-2014: First Team France — Celine Boutier, Duke University Spain – Noemi Jimenez, Arizona State University Norway — Tonje Daffinrud, University of Denver USA — Alison Lee, UCLA Mexico — Gaby Lopez, University of Arkansas Second Team Finland — Matilda Castren, Florida State University Mexico — Marijosse Navarro, Texas A&M University Honorable Mention Canada — Augusta James, North Carolina State University England — Bronte Law, UCLA Canada — Brittany Marchand, North Carolina State University Sweden — Louise Ridderstrom, UCLA USA — Emma Talley, University of Alabama CURTIS CUP 2014 – The United States of America won the 2014 Curtis Cup Match, 13-7 over Great Britain and Ireland in June at St. Louis Country Club. Eilidh Briggs and Gemma Dryburgh of Scotland, and Gabriella Cowley and Bronte Law of England represented Great Britain and Ireland. Law was also on GB&I’s winning team in 2012. The two USA players from the Curtis Cup Match in the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship are Emma Talley and Alison Lee. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA CONNECTION — The Women’s World Amateur Team Championship has a deep connection to the University of Florida. Four Gator players and both of its coaches are current or former participants. Ursa Orehek, 21, of Slovenia, Karolina Vickova, 21, of the Czech Republic and Maria Torres, 19, of Puerto Rico are players in 2014. Head coach Emily Glaser played for the USA in 2002 and assistant coach Janice Olivencia played for Puerto Rico in 2004 and Camila Hedberg played for Spain in 2012. THREE FROM LSU, FLORIDA STATE, UCLA — Three American colleges have three players at the WWATC: LSU – Madelene Sagstrom of Sweden, Nadine Dreher of Austria and Caroline Nistrup of Denmark UCLA – Louise Ridderstrom of Sweden, Bronte Law of England and Alison Lee of USA Florida State – sisters Kim and Morgane Metraux of Switzerland and Matilda Castren of Finland OLDEST AND YOUNGEST – Beatriz Arenas, 66, of Guatemala, is the oldest player in the field. This is her 11th appearance at the WWATC as either a player or captain. This is her eighth time as a player and third as a captain. She is a painter, who specializes in nature and animals. Four 14-year-olds are believed to be the youngest competitors: Jo-Hua Hung, of Chinese Taipei; Maria Ines Barbosa, of Portugal; Dorota Zalewska, of Poland; and Valeria Pacheco, of Puerto Rico. LPGA QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT — Three players in the WWATC advanced to the second stage of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament (26-29 Aug.) in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in the USA. Alison Lee of the USA posted the lowest amateur score (T4) at 5-under-par 283. Also advancing were Augusta James of Canada (T14, 287) and Marta Sanz Barrio of Spain (T67, 296). STORYLINES (Alphabetical By Country) AUSTRALIA High school student Eui Kyung “Shelly” Shin, 16, won the 2014 New South Wales Junior Championship and was a semifinalist at the 2014 U.S. Girls’ Junior in July. In 2014, Su-Hyun Oh, 18, played at the British Women’s Open (missing the cut) and the Kraft Nabisco (T51). She also was second at the Canadian Women’s Amateur and a quarterfinalist at the U.S. Women’s Amateur. BELGIUM Captain Christian Moyson is serving as the team leader for the fifth time (2006-2014, consecutively). He is also the general secretary of the Royal Belgian Golf Federation. Leslie Cloots, 19, is playing in her second WWATC and was the runner-up at the 2014 British Ladies Amateur. Her father is Belgian and her mother is Chinese. BRAZIL Clara Teixeira, 21, speaks four languages – English, Portuguese, Spanish and German. She played in the 2012 WWATC with her sister, Vitoria. CANADA Brooke Mackenzie Henderson, 16, is representing Canada for the second time and is currently No.2 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking™. He was the low amateur at the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open (T10 after a final-round 69) and runner-up at the U.S. Women’s Amateur. This season, she was also won the Porter Cup and a Canadian Women’s Tour Ontario stop. Augusta James was born on 8 April, 1993 on the first day of the 57th Masters Tournament. She is named for Augusta National Golf Club. COLOMBIA Captain Felipe Harker is participating in his 13th World Amateur Team Championship. He was a five-time participant as a player and has been Colombia’s captain for eight championships (all since 2000). He is an orthopedic physician and the executive director of the Colombian Golf Federation. DENMARK Captain Torben Nyehuus is serving in the position for the fourth time (2008-2014). He was a caddie at the British Open Championship in 2010 and 2011. FINLAND Captain Matti Lindholm played 15 seasons of American football in Europe and led Finland to five European championship games, with three titles. He was inducted in the inaugural class of the Finnish American Football Hall of Fame in 2004 and the league’s Defender of the Year Trophy is named in his honor. FRANCE Celine Boutier and Mathilda Cappeliez both competed in the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open. GERMANY Pia Halbig, who played in the 2008 and 2010 WWATCs, is serving as captain for the first time. In her business life, she is the press spokeswoman for Sky Deutschland. ITALY Virginia Elena Carta, 17, attended circus school for three years when she was very young. She won the German Boys and Girls Open in 2014, where she shot 66, her lowest competitive round. She tied for fourth at the recent Youth Olympic Games in China. Captain Anna Ro scio is married to 2005 U.S. Amateur winner and European Tour player Edoardo Molinari. Her husband played for Italy in the 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004 World Amateur Team Championships She was also captain in 2012. MEXICO Captain Marcela Coughlan is the sister of the Mexican men’s captain, Jorge Coughlin, who led the team to a silver-medal finish in Turkey in 2012. This is her fourth WWATC as captain. Marijosse Navarro, who will turn 18 on 6 Sept., was the runner-up at the 2014 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship. She has already completed a semester of study at Texas A&M University after graduating from high school a year and half early. She has won three Mexican Women’s Amateur titles. NEW ZEALAND Zoe-Beth Brake, 22, served for 2½ years in New Zealand’s Royal Navy before enrolling at Ohio State University, where she is a sophomore and was named to the all-Big Ten Conference team in 2014. PHILIPPINES In 2014, Princess Superal, 17, won the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship as well as the 27th Sea Games title. POLAND Dominika Gradecka will celebrate her 18th birthday on the day of the third round of the WWATC (5 Sept.). She is the youngest captain at this year’s championship. PUERTO RICO Captain Laura Diaz works for The First Tee national office in St. Augustine, Fla., in the USA. She currently oversees logistics for approximately 15 national events, including the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach (USA), during which she is the junior tournament director. She competed for Puerto Rico three times and is serving as captain for the second time. Valeria Pacheco, 14, loves reading and writing. When she was in fifth grade, a poem that she wrote was selected for publication in the “Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans.” REPUBLIC OF KOREA So-Young Lee, 17, was the individual champion and gold-medal winner at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, in late August. SCOTLAND Gabrielle Macdonald, 21, won the Scottish Ladies Amateur in May at Prestwick, the first site of the British Open Championship in 1860, and calls the victory at that historic venue her most memorable golf experience. CHINESE TAIPEI Captain Jui-Hui Lee played on the Japan Ladies Tour. She competed in the WWATC in 1992 as a player. Ssu-Chia Cheng, 16, was the silver medalist at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, in late August. UKRAINE Galyna Zagorodnia, 25, is a Ph.D student at Kiev National Economic University and is playing in her first WWATC. She was a Ukrainian champion in rhythmic gymnastics. Valeriia Sapronova, 20, is playing in her second WWATC. In Turkey in 2012, she played left-handed. In Japan in 2014, she will play right-handed. She made the decision to switch in 2013. USA Alison Lee, 19, was a semifinalist at the 2013 U.S. Women’s Amateur and a member of the USA’s winning team in the Curtis Cup Match in June. She has played in three U.S. Women’s Open Championships, including her first at age 14 in 2009. In 2014, she won the North & South Amateur and was the Pac-12 Conference’s Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year. Emma Talley, 20, won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2013 and was on the winning USA Team in the Curtis Cup Match in June. Kristen Gillman, 16, won the 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur, defeating Brooke Mackenzie Henderson of Canada, 2 up, by birdieing five of the final 10 holes in the 36-hole championship match. Captain Martha Lang played on the 1992 USA Team in the Curtis Cup Match and was captain of the 1996 Team. She won the 1988 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur and was chairman of the USGA’s Women’s Committee in 2011 and 2012.