Women's World Amateur Team Championship - USGA
Women's World Amateur Team Championship - USGA
Women's World Amateur Team Championship - USGA
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Women’s <strong>World</strong> <strong>Amateur</strong> <strong>Team</strong> 11<br />
Position<br />
Rd. 1 Rd. 2 Rd. 3 Final Scores Total<br />
T35 44 46 46 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *159 #167 #164 *165 655<br />
Elmay Viking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 84 81 80 322<br />
Naomi George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 94 83 85 344<br />
Rotana Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 83 87 89 348<br />
46 47 47 47 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *170 #168 #170 *163 671<br />
Violetta Siozou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 85 83 77 329<br />
Kassandra Poole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 83 87 86 342<br />
Chryssi Vafeiadi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 85 89 87 349<br />
48 48 48 48 Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *185 #190 #175 #180 730<br />
Selai Pridgeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 91 89 85 360<br />
Kelera Watling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 104 86 95 375<br />
Sereana Phillipps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 99 93 99 391<br />
* = East Course<br />
# = West Course<br />
<strong>Championship</strong> History<br />
What began as a proposal for a match in 1964 between<br />
the USA and France grew into the Women’s <strong>World</strong><br />
<strong>Amateur</strong> <strong>Team</strong> <strong>Championship</strong>.<br />
The impetus for this championship was an invitation<br />
by the French Golf Federation for the USA Curtis Cup<br />
<strong>Team</strong> to stop off in France for an informal match after<br />
that year’s Curtis Cup Match in Wales.<br />
The <strong>USGA</strong> accepted the invitation, but also suggested<br />
inviting other nations to create a women’s counterpart<br />
to the <strong>World</strong> <strong>Amateur</strong> <strong>Team</strong> <strong>Championship</strong>. That event<br />
for men’s teams began in 1958 after an invitation from<br />
Japan to establish a match between the two nations.<br />
The French were delighted to sponsor the inaugural<br />
women’s championship and arranged for it to be played<br />
at the St. Germain Golf Club, near Paris, in October<br />
1964. The event, under the chairmanship of Vicomtesse<br />
de Saint-Sauveur, was a triumph.<br />
A total of 25 teams and 75 players participated, which<br />
instantly established the competition as a member of<br />
international golf’s family of championships. Spectator<br />
enthusiasm at the first championship was keen, since<br />
the host team prevailed over the USA by one stroke.<br />
The French player Catherine Lacoste, who would later<br />
become a heroine of the amateur game when she won<br />
the 1967 U.S. Women’s Open, was a big factor in the<br />
excitement in her home country. Her final-round 73<br />
secured the Espirito Santo Trophy for France. Lacoste<br />
tied with Carol Sorenson of the USA at 294 for medalist<br />
honors.<br />
While no official recognition is given for individual<br />
scoring, Jenny Chuasiriporn of the USA lowered the 72-<br />
hole individual scoring record in 1998. She shot 276 at<br />
Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago, Chile, two<br />
shots better than the score returned by countrywoman<br />
Wendy Ward four years earlier at The National Golf<br />
Club in Versailles, France.<br />
In 1966, the <strong>World</strong> <strong>Amateur</strong> Golf Council assumed<br />
sponsorship of future Women’s <strong>World</strong> <strong>Amateur</strong> <strong>Team</strong><br />
<strong>Championship</strong>s. Since its second-place finish in the<br />
inaugural, the USA has dominated, winning 13 times.<br />
Australia (1978, 2002), Spain (1986, 1992), Sweden<br />
(2004, 2008), and France (1964, 2000) are the only<br />
other multiple victors.<br />
For the first time, in 2002, the championship for the<br />
Espirito Santo Trophy was played on two courses.<br />
In 2003, the organization’s name was changed to the<br />
International Golf Federation.<br />
W. <strong>World</strong><br />
<strong>Amateur</strong>