WOMENS GOLF Cornwall's Toy in Amateur Open field
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- Created on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 06:17
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:45
- Published on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 06:17
- Written by ROSS REID
Austria’s Isabella Holpfer will defend her title at the English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, which teed off today at Ipswich Golf Club in Suffolk.The 18-year-old completed a remarkable 11-shot wire-to-wire victory 12 months ago in Coventry and now returns attempting to become the first back-to-back winner since Jodi Ewart (now Jodi Ewart Shadoff) in 2007-08.
World No. 23 Lily May Humphreys from Stoke-by-Nayland is the top ranked player at the event. She arrives in Suffolk on the back of a remarkable season that has seen her win the Welsh and Irish Open Stroke Play Championship as well as the Annika Invitational Europe in Sweden.
The 17-year-old was also runner-up to Ellen Hume at the English Women’s Amateur Championship at Saunton Golf Club in North Devon.
Humphreys is joined by 21-year-old Women's Amateur champion Emily Toy from Carlyon Bay Cornwall, Mimi Rhodes and Amelia Williamson who were also in the English team who won the recent Women’s Home Internationals at Downfield in Scotland.
Humphreys is joined by 21-year-old Women's Amateur champion Emily Toy from Carlyon Bay Cornwall, Mimi Rhodes and Amelia Williamson who were also in the English team who won the recent Women’s Home Internationals at Downfield in Scotland.
The victorious English Girls’ team at the concurrent Girls’ Home Internationals are represented in Suffolk by Jessica Baker, Rosie Belsham, Ellie Gower, Charlotte Heath, Thalia Kirby and Caitlin Whitehead. The latter finished second behind Germany’s Marie Bechtold at the English Girls’ Open Amateur Championship at The Gog Magog.
Finland’s Kerttu Hiltunen, who last year was a runaway winner of the English Girls’ Under 16 Open Amateur Championship, leads a field of continental entrants from France, Germany Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.
The English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship is contested over 72 holes. The full field play 18 holes on each of the first two days with the leading 40 players and ties returning to play 36 holes on the third day.
Finland’s Kerttu Hiltunen, who last year was a runaway winner of the English Girls’ Under 16 Open Amateur Championship, leads a field of continental entrants from France, Germany Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.
The English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship is contested over 72 holes. The full field play 18 holes on each of the first two days with the leading 40 players and ties returning to play 36 holes on the third day.
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