14 invited to U.S. Curtis Cup practice
17 Dec 2013
by Golfweek
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By Julie Williams, Golfweek
The U.S. Golf Association released its list of
invitees for
the first Curtis Cup practice session, which will
take
place Jan. 31-Feb. 2 at Champions Golf Club in
Houston.
The matches will be played June 6-8 at St.
Louis
Country Club, and the final squad will consist
of eight
women.
St. Louis native Ellen Port, a six-time USGA
champion
and two-time U.S. Curtis Cup Team member,
will serve
as captain of the U.S. team.
The list of invitees:
•
Casie Cathrea, Livermore, Calif.
(Oklahoma State)
•
Doris Chen, Bradenton, Fla.
(USC)
•
Karen Chung, Livingston, N.J.
(USC)
•
Lauren Diaz-Yi, Thousand Oaks,
Calif.
(Virginia)
•
Kyung Kim, Chandler, Ariz.
(USC)
•
Alison Lee, Valencia, Calif.
(UCLA)
•
Erynne Lee, Silverdale, Wash.
(UCLA)
•
Ally McDonald, Fulton, Miss.
(Mississippi State)
•
Nicole Morales, South Salem, N.Y.
•
Grace Na, Alamedia, Calif.
(Pepperdine)
•
Annie Park, Levittown, N.Y.
(USC)
•
Ashlan Ramsey, Milledgeville, Ga.
(Clemson)
•
Mariah Stackhouse, Riverdale, Ga.
(Stanford)
•
Emma Talley, Princeton, Ky.
(Alabama)
That list includes four USGA champions in Chen
(2010
U.S. Girls’ Junior), Diaz-Yi (2013 U.S. Women’s
Amateur
Public Links), Kim (2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur
Public
Links) and Talley (2013 U.S. Women’s
Amateur). Alison
Lee is the top-ranked female in the World
Amateur
Ranking.
An invitation to the USGA’s practice session
does not
guarantee selection, and players not at the
session are
not excluded from consideration. Conspicuously
missing
from the list, however, is 2012 Curtis Cupper
Emily
Tubert. She is the only member of that eight-
woman
squad still eligible to compete in 2014 as the
other
seven have turned professional. Also, no mid-
amateurs
were invited to the practice session.
The U.S. team will be looking to reclaim the
Curtis Cup
after losing to Great Britain and Ireland in
2012.