Now its the women’s turn in Abu Dhabi
Maddison Hinson Tolchard heads the Australians – file photo USGA
Following a good performance by Australasian teams and individuals at last week’s World Amateur Teams Championship (The Eisenhower Trophy) the women get their turn in Abu Dhabi this week.
The Australian team of West Australian Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Queensland’s Justice Bosio and South Australian Caitlin Peirce are joined by the highest ranked of the Australasians, Fiona Xu of New Zealand along with her teammates, Vivian Lu and Eunseo Choi in the event where the leading two scores on each of the four days are counted towards the team total.
Hinson-Tolchard a senior at Oklahoma State has just come off gaining access to the final stage of LPGA Tour qualifying next month, Bosio is a two-time Australian Amateur Championship runner-up and recently won the Keperra Bowl in Brisbane, and Pierce, an agricultural science degree student, won the Karrie Webb Series of events in 2022 and earlier this year won the Queensland Women’s Amateur Championship.
New Zealand’s Xu is the 2022 Australian Women’s Amateur Champion and earlier this year was runner-up in the Queen Sirikit Cup, Lu has been a prolific winner of events in her homeland including the New Zealand Amateur and New Zealand Strokeplay Championship and Choi was runner-up in this year’s Australian Girls Championship and has won many of her country’s leading amateur events for women.
The Australian team last won the event in 2014 when Minjee Lee, Shelley Shin and Su Oh were successful in Japan, the third time the Australians had won.
The New Zealand team has been twice runner-up but has yet to add a victory to that of their 1992 male counterparts.