Danny Willett lends helping hand to Rochelle Morris for Curtis Cup player's fund-raising day

Former Yorkshire champion Morris will use the day to raise funds to help defray the cost of competing at the highest level of the women’s amateur golf game, which costs around £10,000 per year.

And she is delighted that Willett, like herself, a former White Rose champion, has agreed to help her.

“It was really nice of him to do that,” said Morris, who was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland side that beat the USA in Ireland last month, a biennial event that is the pinnacle of representative golf for female amateurs.

She is also grateful to Woodsome Hall, who are understandably proud of her achievements, for allowing her to stage the four-person team better ball am-am, as they have done for first-season European Tour player Chris Hanson, who is based at the club.

“Quite a lot of Woodsome Hall members have signed up for it, and Crosland Heath members, too,” said Morris, who was a member at the latter before following her coach John Eyre to Woodsome Hall when he took over as head professional there.

She and Eyre are planning to display her Curtis Cup bag in his pro shop, her way of sharing the prestige of having been selected to play at Dun Laoghaire.

The competition has proved a stepping stone to a professional career for combatants in the past, and Morris’s long-term plan is to follow that route.

But she intends to extend her amateur career through to next year as she acknowledges that her game has room for improvement and she hopes to hone her game playing for another season and a half among her elite amateur peers.

“I would like to do more things at amateur level,” she said. “Hopefully by the end of next year I will feel like I am ready because it is expensive to go to Qualifying school and I would not want to fritter away any money that I raise.”

There are still places available for teams at the Rochelle Morris Golf Day on Thursday, July 28.

Cost is £200 per four-person team and that will include a pre-round breakfast sandwich, on-course drinks and a two-course meal afterwards, when there will be a prize presentation and auction. Tee-off times will start at 9.42am.

Anyone interested in playing or obtaining further details should email her – [email protected].

This week, her mother and father, Roger and Marie, will carry on with organising the golf day while she and 15 other Yorkshire players contest the English women’s amateur championship at West Lancs.

Morris will be hoping to go one step further than last year when she finished runner-up to Bramhall’s Bronte Law at Hunstanton.

“I haven’t played a links course in a while and I’m looking forward to it,” she said.

“I didn’t use to like links golf, but now I can hit the shots that are needed, it becomes more of a fun challenge.”