SENIOR LADIES’ HOME INTERNATIONAL MATCHES

Royal Tara welcomes the Senior Ladies for the Home International Matches
An English Ladies’ team, boosted by their runner-up place in the European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship, will travel to Royal Tara Golf Club, County Meath with the aim of continuing their unbeaten run of four wins in the Senior’s Home International matches.

England have won all four series since the Home Internationals started in 2003 and next week, from 2-4 October, will hope to add to that tally on Irish soil.

Ireland will be looking for a good performance on home turf and have selected Mary Madden, the winner by eight shots of their Senior Matchplay Championship from Valerie Hassett, also a member of the seven-player squad.

In 2006 when the series was played at Hamilton, Scotland took the runner-up spot and will be looking to go one better in Ireland. Included in a strong team are Kathleen Sutherland, Fiona Hunter, Lorna Bennett and Helen Faulds, respectively 1, 2, 3 and 4 in their Senior Stroke Play Championship. Ms Bennett improved on that performance by winning the Senior Match Play title.

Vicki Thomas has been a mainstay of Welsh ladies’ golf since the early 1970’s but in the 2007 Senior Ladies’ Championship, in attempting to defend her title, had to be content with second place to Ann Lewis the winner from Royal St Davids. Both have been named in the Welsh team.

Royal Tara is a relatively new complex consisting of 27 holes set in rolling parkland with the most recent 18-holes, designed by European Tour professional Des Smyth, opened for play in 1995.

TEAMS

ENGLAND
Cathy Bowerbank (Captain)
Sue Rawles (Manager)
Carole Caldwell Sunningdale
Susan Dye Delamere Forest
Susan Ellis Ferndown
Christine Quinn Hockley
Hilary Smyth Pannal
Christine Watson Beaconsfield
Pat Wrightson Huddersfield

IRELAND
Rhona Fanagan (Captain)
Roma English (Manager)
Carmel Cahill Hermitage
Valerie Hassett Ennis
Marilyn Henderson West Rhine
Eileen MacMullen Donegal
Mary McKenna Donabate
Mary Madden Ballinasloe
Sheena O'Brien Kenney Grange

SCOTLAND
Joan Marshall (Captain)
Margaret MacNaughtan (Manager)
Lorna Bennett Ladybank
Fiona De Vries St. Rule
Helen Faulds Douglas Park
Fiona Hunter Baberton
Kathleen Sutherland Royal Montrose
Margaret Tough Falkirk
Pamela Williamson Baberton

WALES
Verona Mackenzie (Captain)
Gill Fouracre (Manager)
Audrey Briggs Royal Liverpool
Trudy Carradice Pyle & Kenfig
Janet Doleman Rushcliffe
Ann Lewis Royal St. Davids
Jean O'Connor Newport
Denise Richards Bargoed