USA include four of world's top 10 in their Curtis Cup team

The Arizona player’s team-mates include four 17 year olds: Sierra Brooks, from Florida; Mariel Galdiano, of Hawaii; and Californians Andrea Lee and Mika Liu.

Making up the team are two 19-year-olds, Bailey Tardy, from Georgia and Bethany Wu, another Californian, and 21-year-old Monica Vaughn, from Oregon.

“These eight young women who will represent the United States in the 39th Curtis Cup Match are among the most talented players in the world,” said Diana Murphy, USGA president. “The USGA is proud to have them as ambassadors for the game, and we wish them the best of luck as they prepare for the competition in June.”

“The opportunity to select the members of this team was one we undertook with great care,” said Tom Hough, of Atlanta, who is in his first year as chairman of the ITS Committee and third year on the USGA Executive Committee.

“We are confident that, while these players will be fierce competitors, they will also embody the tradition of friendship set forth by Margaret and Harriot Curtis in 1932.”

All eight players on the USA team are among the top 30 in the Women’s World Amateur rankings, with O’Sullivan (No 2), Brooks (No 4), Galdiano (No 6) and Tardy (No 7) in the top 10.

As well as winning the US Women’s Amateur with a 3&2 win over Brooks at Portland GC, O’Sullivan won the Symetra Tour’s Gateway Classic, becoming the tour’s first amateur winner since Kellee Booth in 1999 and the youngest since Cristie Kerr in 1995.