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2022 Espirito Santo Trophy
The 2022 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 24–27 August at Le Golf National and Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche south-west of Paris, France. It was the 29th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy. Format The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event. Each team of three players played two rounds at Le Golf National and two rounds at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche in different orders. The top teams played their final round on Le Golf National, The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total. Venues Le Golf National had previously hosted the Open de France every year except two since 1991, the 2018 Ryder Cup and the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy and Espirito Santo Trophy. The facility was scheduled to host the golfing competition during the Olympics in 2024. Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche had previously hosted the Open de France three times and the 1963 Canada Cup, an event later renamed the World Cup. Course layouts ''Le Golf Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Golf National
The Albatros course at Le Golf National is an 18-hole golf course in France, near Paris. Designed by architects Hubert Chesneau and Robert Von Hagge, in collaboration with Pierre Thevenin, it is located in Guyancourt, southwest of central Paris. Facilities Construction began in July 1987, and it debuted over three years later, on 5 October 1990, opened by Roger Bambuck, Minister of Youth and Sports. Le Golf National has a capacity for 80,000 spectators. The Albatros (Albatross) is the main championship course, par 72 at . The other courses are the Aigle (Eagle), par 71 and , and the short nine-hole Oiselet (Birdie) course is par 32. Tournaments Le Golf National hosts the Open de France on the European Tour, the oldest national open in continental Europe. First played at Le Golf National in 1991, it has been held there every year since, except on two occasions (1999, 2001). Le Golf National hosted the Ryder Cup in 2018. The facility is scheduled to host the golfing co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Espirito Santo Trophy
The 1994 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 28 September – 1 October at Le Golf National in Guyancourt south-west of Paris, France. It was the 16th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy and 30-year anniversary of the inaugural event in 1964, which also was held in France, close to Paris. At the time of the 1994 championship, its initiator in 1964, Lally Segard, retired from her position, after serving for 30 years, as chairperson of the women's committee of the organizing World Amateur Golf Council, when the championship returned to her home town. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 29 team entries, each with three players. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total. The United States team won the Trophy for their 12th title, beating South Korea by four strokes. South Korea earned the silver medal while the Sweden team took the bronze on third place another stroke back. Defending champions Spain fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Briem
Helen Briem (born 12 August 2005) is a German amateur golfer. She has won the 2021 European Young Masters, the 2022 European Nations Cup – Copa Sotogrande and was medalist at the 2022 Espirito Santo Trophy, the Women's World Amateur Team Championships. Career Briem is from Nürtingen near Stuttgart and represents Stuttgarter Golf-Club Solitude. She is a member of the German National Team and in 2021 she won the European Young Masters in Finland both individually and with the team. Also in 2021, she won the national stroke-play and match-play titles in Germany, and was selected by captain Annika Sörenstam for the European team at the Junior Solheim Cup. In 2022, she won the European Nations Cup – Copa Sotogrande and the Italian International Ladies Amateur Championship, and made her Augusta National Women's Amateur debut. She shared best individual score at the 2022 Women's World Amateur Team Championships, the Espirito Santo Trophy at Le Golf National in France, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lottie Woad
Charlotte Woad (born 17 January 2004) is an English amateur golfer. She won the 2022 Girls Amateur Championship. Golf career In 2021, Woad won the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship. In May 2022, she made her debut on the Ladies European Tour in the Madrid Open. In August 2022, Woad won the Girls Amateur Championship. Personal life Woad was born in January 2004, the daughter of Rachel and Nick Woad. Amateur wins * 2021 The Critchley Astor Salver, Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship * 2022 Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters, Girls Amateur Championship Source: Team appearances * Girls and Boys Home Internationals (representing England): 2021 (winners) *European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England): 2022 (winners) * Women's and Men's Home Internationals (representing England): 2022 (winners) *Espirito Santo Trophy (representing England): 2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caley McGinty
George Caley (10 June 1770 – 23 May 1829) was an English botanist and explorer, active in Australia for the majority of his career. Early life Caley was born in Craven, Yorkshire, England, the son of a horse-dealer. He was educated at the Free Grammar School at Manchester for around four years and was then taken into his father's stables. According to a letter which was sent to William Withering on 15 June 1798, he started teaching himself botany after he coming across a volume of book about farriery which was written by William Gibson cause he became interested in the herbs mentioned in prescriptions. He started learning botany by studying Botanical arrangement (1787-92) by William Withering. He changed his job to that of a weaver in order to allow himself to spent more time with his associate in Manchester School of Botanists which consist of John Mellor, James Crowther, and John Dewhurst. This school was also attended by John Horsefield on 1808. In March 1795 he wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Heath
Charlotte Heath (born 25 November 2001) is an English amateur golfer. She won the Smyth Salver as the low amateur at the 2023 Women's British Open. Amateur career Heath reached the semi-finals of the 2018 Girls Amateur Championship and won the 2020 Australian Women's Amateur against Indonesia's Mela Putri with a 7&6 score. She graduated from Brighouse High School in 2020 and enrolled at Florida State University to start playing with the Florida State Seminoles women's golf team. She played on the Arnold Palmer Cup team in 2022 and 2023. Heath played in the 2021 and 2022 Curtis Cup and won the 2021 and 2022 European Ladies' Team Championship with England. She finished 4th at the 2021 Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship and lost a playoff to Savannah De Bock at the 2022 European Ladies Amateur. She tied for 7th at the 2023 NCAA Championship four strokes behind Rose Zhang, and won the Smyth Salver as the low amateur at the 2023 Women's British Open, having qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalie Leth-Nissen
Amalie Leth-Nissen (born 15 September 2004) is a Danish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. As an amateur, she was runner-up at the 2021 Terre Blanche Ladies Open and the 2022 Smørum Ladies Open on the LET Access Series. Early life and family Leth-Nissen was born in 2004 and grew up in Herlev, a suburb of Copenhagen. She was introduced to golf by her father in 2013, when she was 8 years old. She has three sisters, Cecilie, Marie and Sofie. Her two-year older sister Cecile is an accomplished golfer and member of the Oklahoma State Cowgirls golf team. Leth-Nissen graduated from Lindehøjskolen in 2020 and enrolled in high school class of 2024 at Falkonergården in Frederiksberg. In 2020, she left Hjortespring Golf Club to represent Smørum Golf Club. She is a left-handed golfer. Amateur career Leth-Nissen had a successful amateur career and joined the National Team. Representing Denmark, she won the 2019 European Girls' Team Championship and lead he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen
Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen (born 5 May 1999) is a Denmark, Danish professional golfer and Ladies European Tour. In 2023, she won three times on the LET Access Series and secured the Order of Merit title. As an amateur, she won the European Nations Cup – Copa Sotogrande and played in the final of the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships. Amateur career Nielsen had a successful amateur career and represented the Danish National Team in European and World Championships between 2016 and 2022. Her European Ladies' Team Championship team finished 5th, 3rd, 8th, 3rd, 5th and 5th, to cement the competitiveness and consistency of the Danish side. Individually, Nielsen won the 2016 German Girls Open and the 2018 European Nations Cup – Copa Sotogrande, in addition to winning the Danish International Amateur Championship in 2017 and the Danish National Stroke Play Championship in 2018 and 2020. Nielsen enrolled at the University of Oregon in 2019 and played with the Oregon Duc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Plata
Valery Plata (born 2 June 2001) is a Colombian professional golfer and LPGA Tour player. Early life and amateur career Plata was born in Florida, United States, but is a Colombian citizen, growing up in Bucaramanga, Colombia, as a neighbor to Mariajo Uribe, winner of the 2007 U.S. Amateur. Plata qualified for the 2015 and 2016 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship, and represented Colombia at the 2017 Junior Golf World Cup in Japan. She won gold at the 2017 Youth South American Games in Chile. With the Colombia team she won the South American U-15 Team Championship in 2015 and 2016, and the South American U-18 Team Championship in 2017 and 2018. She attended Michigan State University between 2018 and 2022. Playing with the Michigan State Spartans women's golf team, Plata was a three-time All-Big Ten First Team selection, and named Big Ten Player of the Year in 2020 as a sophomore. In 2021, she won the Big Ten's Mary Fossum Award, an honor given to the Big Ten Conference player wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savannah De Bock
Savannah De Bock (born 20 October 2005) is an amateur golfer from Belgium. She won the 2021 Junior Solheim Cup with Europe and the 2022 European Ladies Amateur. Amateur career De Bock has enjoyed a successful amateur career. She won her first international championship, the 2017 Orange Bowl Doral-Publix Junior Golf Classic in Miami, when she was only 12. In 2018 and 2019, she was runner-up at the Belgian National Juniors Championship, and won the event in 2021. In 2020, she was runner-up at the CJGA World Junior Challenge, run by the Canadian Junior Golf Association, behind Chloe Chan of Hong Kong. In 2021, she was runner-up at the European Young Masters in Finland, 2 strokes behind Helen Briem. She won the Belgian International Amateur Championship & National Stroke Play Championship back-to-back in 2021 and 2022. In 2022, only 16 years old, she triumphed at the European Ladies Amateur, winning in a playoff against Charlotte Heath of England, becoming just the second Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Rudgeley
Kirsten Rudgeley (born 2001) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. In 2022, she won The Athena Golf Challenge on the WPGA Tour of Australasia. Early life and amateur career Rudgeley was born in London, England and relocated with her family to Perth, Western Australia when she was four. Her father introduced her to golf when she was 7 years old, but she didn't consider herself a serious golfer until she represented Western Australia at age 14. Domestically, Rudgeley was runner-up at the 2020 Riversdale Cup and won the Port Phillip Open Amateur, Victorian Amateur, North Shore Classic and the Rene Erichsen Salver, plus the Western Australia Amateur three times. In 2021, she won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship and the English Women's Amateur Championship, before qualifying for the 2021 Women's British Open at Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland, her first major. She was also runner-up at the Australian Women's Amateur and finishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Cup (men's Golf)
The World Cup of Golf is a men's golf tournament contested by teams of two representing their country. Only one team is allowed from each country. The players are selected on the basis of the Official World Golf Ranking, although not all of the first choice players choose to compete. The equivalent event for women was the Women's World Cup of Golf, played from 2005 to 2008. History The tournament was founded by Canadian industrialist John Jay Hopkins, who hoped it would promote international goodwill through golf. It began in 1953 as the Canada Cup and changed its name to the World Cup in 1967. With Fred Corcoran as the Tournament Director and the International Golf Association behind it (1955–1977), the World Cup traveled the globe and grew to be one of golf's most prestigious tournaments throughout the 1960s and 1970s, but interest in the event faded to the point that the event was not held in 1981 or 1986. The tournament was incorporated into the World Golf Championships se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
