Alvarez Tees Off at Espirito Santo

ESPIRITO SANTO WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Overnight tonight the New Zealand Espirito Santo team will take on the world’s best as they look to become the first women’s team to bring home a World Amateur Team Championship title.

The team consisting of Wellington’s Julianne Alvarez, Auckland’s Wenyung Keh and Waikato’s Chantelle Cassidy have put in the hard yards and completed their final preparations in very hot and humid conditions at the Mayakoba El Camaleon Golf Club in Cancun, Mexico.

The team will be led by Keh and Alvarez who were both part of the Washington Huskies team who won the NCAA College Championship for the first time in history earlier this year.

Cassidy joins them coming off three wins in New Zealand including two Jennian Homes Charles Tour victories and taking out the New Zealand Stroke Play Championship.

New Zealand Golf’s High Performance Manager Gregg Thorpe is extremely pleased with the preparation the girls have had and is looking forward to watching their progress over the coming days.

“This group has a good mix of experience, skill and success, should they play to their potential they are certainly capable of a strong performance this week.”

The World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur golf competition rotated among three geographic zones of the world: Asia-Pacific, American and European-African.

New Zealand Golf will provide a summary after each day’s performance along with a blog from team manager, Libby Steele.

Follow scores here: http://www.igfgolf.org/

Check out groupings here: http://www.igfgolf.org/watc/watc2016/espirito-santo-trophy-groupings/

 COURTESY OF NEW ZEALAND GOLF