After a difficult two days’ play at Goswick Hyperlinks, Lindrick’s Holly Morgan received the Girls’s PGA Skilled Championship, while Holly Haslam (Inventory Brook Manor Golf & Nation Membership), took the Girls’s PGA Assistants’ Championship title on the similar venue.
Rounds of 76 and 74 noticed Morgan take the primary trophy in very tough situations: “It feels wonderful, I actually didn’t anticipate to win it,” she mentioned. “I missed too many fairways yesterday however other than that I did play fairly properly after which at this time I made a decision I’m not going to hit my driver in any respect and performed very conservative, however because it occurs it was the correct factor to do.
“It’s truly the primary time I’ve ever performed on this occasion so it was very nice to return and play two rounds of golf versus one, and all people’s so good, it’s such a pleasant atmosphere to be in and I had my mum on the bag who retains me calm, so it’s been good.”
PGA Trainee Haslam’s rounds of 74 and 73 secured her the silverware: “I’m over the moon to win – I can’t imagine it, I’m tremendous completely satisfied. I didn’t anticipate it, however I used to be going to do my finest and simply see the place I may go. I’ve been taking part in all proper, so it simply needed to all come collectively on the proper time and at this time was the correct time.
“Yesterday I performed fairly good golf, one dangerous gap actually, however saved myself proper within the combine, and at this time I had a horrible begin however settled down, bought some momentum going, made a few birdies and had a gentle end. Total a extremely wonderful week, actually good enjoyable.”
Through the match, there have been additionally two Nice Britain and Eire workforce spots up for grabs for absolutely certified PGA Professionals for the 2024 Girls’s PGA Cup, to be held at Sunriver Resort in Oregon in October.
The qualification course of meant that factors from each the 2023 and 2024 championships would decide the workforce members, with Holly Morgan and Heather MacRae (The Gleneagles Resort) making the workforce.
Each gamers had their eyes on the qualification spots with MacRae including: “I’m very excited – it’s been my aim since I performed within the final WPGA Cup – it was among the best golf weeks of my life so I wished to verify I used to be on the workforce once more. Right this moment was a little bit of a wrestle however I managed to get it completed so I’m tremendous completely satisfied.”
2024 WPGA Cup Captain, Cathy Panton-Lewis, was thrilled together with her first two workforce members, saying: “It’s nice – two of the perfect gamers that we now have, so it’s a fantastic reduction to have such excellent gamers on the workforce already. Holly went to school in America for a 12 months, so she’s not going to be an excessive amount of of a beginner taking part in in America, and Heather had a fantastic WPGA Cup two years in the past, so it makes my life a bit simpler. We’ve bought two extra occasions within the WPGA Sequence so that offers me one other couple of occasions to see how the land’s mendacity, who’s in kind and who’s doing properly.”
The ultimate WPGA Cup workforce might be made up of 5 gamers – the highest two from the 2023 and 2024 WPGA Sequence factors listing will be a part of Morgan and MacRae, then Panton-Lewis will make one Captain’s Decide to finalise the workforce.
See the ultimate Girls’s PGA Skilled and Assistants’ Championship scores HERE.
