Nine new caps in Continental team

for Vagliano Trophy match

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE EUROPEAN GOLF ASSOCIATION
The Continent of Europe team to play Great Britain & Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy match at Hamburg Golf Club on July 24 and 25 is:

Laura GONZALES-ESCALLON Belgium
Lucie ANDRE France
Rosanna CREPIAT France
Marion RICORDEAU France
Caroline MASSON Germany
Pia HALBIG Germany
Marieke NIVARD Netherlands
Adriana ZWANK Spain
Caroline HEDWALL Sweden
Reserves:
Ines DIAZ NEGRETE Spain
Thea HOFFMEISTER Germany

Experienced captain Macarena Campomanes will be looking to successfully defend the 2007 victory achieved against the Great Britain and Ireland team over the Torrance Course, Fairmont St Andrews in 2007.
As the biennial Vagliano Trophy Match approaches, held this year in Hamburg, Germany, the Continent of Europe team has nine new names. The first three listed are the current German, Spanish and Portuguese International Ladies’ Amateur champions respectively.
French National Ladies’ Champion, Marion Ricordeau is also World Ladies’ University Champion.
NCAA player Caroline Masson, was International Spanish and German Ladies’ Amateur Champion in 2008 and was recently third in the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship. Fellow national, Pia Halbig, won the 2009 Slovenian Ladies Amateur Championship.
Marieke Nivard was top individual in the European Nations’ Cup and, in 2008, won the Duke of York Young Champions’ Trophy, the German Girls’ Open and the Dutch National Stroke Play Championship.
A player awarded All-America honours, Adriana Zwanck is a former International Spanish Amateur Champion and European Ladies’ Team Champion team member.
2007 International European Ladies’ Amateur champion, Caroline Hedwall was also a member of the Swedish team winning the Espirito Santo Trophy in Australia late last year.
Nathalie Mansson of Sweden was originally named in the team, but her unavailability has provided the former first reserve, Rosanna Crepiat with her position prior to this press release.
Richard Heath
EGA Championship Manager