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Amateurs Kiara Romero and Maria Jose Marin each carded 68s this week at Riviera Country Club that fueled their respective top-10 finishes.<\/p>\n
Team Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup roster<\/p>\n
Catriona Matthew will captain GB&I once again, with Beth Coulter and Patience Rhodes returning after leading the team to victory at Sunningdale. <\/p>\n
Beth Coulter, 22Sophia Fullbrook, 20Lily Hirst, 23Isla McDonald-O\u2019Brien, 19Charlotte Naughton, 18Nellie Ong, 19Patience Rhodes, 22Davina Xanh, 22<\/p>\n
Annabel Peaford (17) and Emma Fleming (21) will serve as the team\u2019s alternates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have selected eight players who we believe will provide us with the best opportunity of retaining the Curtis Cup against the United States of America,\u201d said Matthew. \u201cWith a number of players turning professional since the last match, we have a new, exciting team.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of the amateur rankings, we will be the underdogs, but we also were at Sunningdale,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a challenge but in match play anyone can beat anyone and it\u2019s just trying to instill that belief in my players. … It\u2019s great fun to see the next generation come through, getting to know them and trying to help them. We are all preparing to give our best at Bel-Air next month.\u201d<\/p>\n
Curtis Cup history<\/p>\n
Team USA has a rather sizable advantage on its competition from across the pond when it comes to Curtis Cup accounting.<\/p>\n
The all-time series record favors the Americans 31-9-3.<\/p>\n
The United States will play host again in four years, when National Golf Links of America in Southampton, New York gets the 46th Curtis Cup from June 7-9, 2030.<\/p>\n
Prior to that U.S. return, Scotland will get to host the 2028 edition at Royal Dornoch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the top amateur golf competitions in the world tees off in Southern California later this week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-723933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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