Emma Talley
Reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur champion
Emma Talley is among the
nine amateurs who have accepted invitations
to play in the 2014
Kraft Nabisco Championship, to be held April 3-
6 on the Dinah Shore
Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country
Club in Rancho Mirage,
Calif.
Talley, a sophomore at the University of
Alabama, joins fellow USGA
champion Minjee Lee (2012 U.S. Girls’ Junior),
17, of Australia, in the
field of the year’s first women’s professional
major championship.
Kraft Nabisco officials traditionally invite top
amateurs, with the
reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur champion
receiving an automatic
invitation.
Collegiate standouts Annie Park (University of
Southern California)
and Alison Lee (UCLA), the latter a semifinalist
in last year’s U.S.
Women’s Amateur and the runner-up to Minjee
Lee in the 2012 U.S.
Girls’ Junior, are also headed to the Kraft. They
will be joined by
Nelly Korda, 15, and Brooke Mackenzie
Henderson, 16, both of whom
made the 36-hole cut at last year’s U.S.
Women’s Open at
Sebonack Golf Club.
Henderson also helped Canada capture the
overall title at the 2013
Copa de las Americas at Trump National Doral.
Korda is the sister of 2010 U.S. Women’s
Amateur runner-up and
2010 USA Curtis Cup Team member Jessica
Korda, who won the
2013 Australian Open.
Other amateurs to receive invitations include
Clemson freshman
Ashlan Ramsey, the 2012 U.S. Women’s
Amateur Public Links runner-
up, and 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur
quarterfinalist Su-Hyun Oh, 17,
of Australia.
The ninth invitee is Angel Yin, 15, of Rancho
Mirage, Calif., who
made the cut in last year’s Kraft after earning
a spot through a
junior qualifying tournament. Yin was the
youngest competitor in the
2012 U.S. Women’s Open, held at Blackwolf
Run in Kohler, Wis.
All of the aforementioned players except for
Nelly Korda and Yin are
among the top 10 in the current Women’s
World Amateur Golf
Ranking (WAGR), headlined by Minjee Lee, who
took over the No. 1
spot on Feb. 26. Minjee Lee won the Oates
Victorian Open in
Australia in February and tied for fourth at the
Ladies European Tour
World Ladies Championship in China in early
March.
Park and Alison Lee are Nos. 2 and 3,
respectively, in the WAGR,
followed by Oh (5), Henderson (6), Ramsey (7)
and Talley (10).
ABOUT THE Chevron Championship (ANA Inspiration)
First women's professional major of the year,
the Chevron (formerly the ANA Inspiration, and before
that the Kraft Nabisco)
Championship draws more than
100 of the best women professional golfers in the
world, as well as the top-ranked amateurs in the
country.
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