Yorkshire golf: Fourth is with Woodsome Hall GC's Rochelle Morris as she gets Curtis Cup call

It is the highest representative honour available to women amateur golfers in this country, and the Woodsome Hall GC member will face the USA in the 39th Curtis Cup at Dun Laoghaire GC, near Dublin, from June 10-12.

Morris’s mathematical concerns involved a Thursday morning update to the Ladies Golf Union’s rankings.

“I knew that the top four were getting in automatically because Olivia Mehaffey and Bronte Law were already in because of their world rankings,” said an elated Morris.

“On Wednesday I tried to work it out and thought I hadn’t got in so I thought I shouldn’t expecting anything in the morning.

“Then it clicked before bed that I might have worked it out wrong, with the divisors and stuff, and woke up at 7am and the ranking had been updated – and I saw that I was fourth.

“I gathered I would get in from that, but I still didn’t want to get too excited until it was officially announced.”

That confirmation came at 2pm on Thursday after Morris had made the trip to Wales with Yorkshire county team-mate Megan Garland, of Selby GC, to compete in the Welsh Open Ladies Amateur Stroke Play Championship, at Conwy GC.

“I never thought I’d play a Curtis Cup, to be fair,” she continued. “When I was growing up playing golf I never really aimed for it, it wasn’t a goal.

“I’ve never played for England at a ladies level or anything like that, so it will be all new to me.

“I was in an Under-16s squad, I was a reserve, but I’ve never been capped for England.

“I was happy to get in the Curtis Cup familiarisations quad last December, but to get in the team is just great.”

Media attention will grown over the next six weeks and Morris and her team-mates will need to acclimatise themselves ahead of playing in front of the Sky Sports TV cameras.

She commented: “I have played in front of cameras before; the Faldo Series (which she won in 2012) was on TV, so I have experienced that before, but never on the scale of Sky Sports and all the interviews and all the media – I’ve never been exposed to that much media attention before.

“I don’t think I’ll know how nervous I’ll be or how overwhelming it might be until I get there. I’ll just have to see when it eventually comes around - it’s quite soon now.”

Ahead of getting to bed to rest ahead of an early tee-off time in Wales, she was wading through a welter of messages congratulating her on her achievement.

“I hope to get through all the messages and reply to everyone,” she said. “Everyone’s been fantastic.”

Morris was the runner-up in two national championships last year, the English Women’s Amateur Championship at Hunstanton GC and the English Women’s Open Stroke Play Championship at St Anne’s Old Links.

She was also second qualifier for the English women’s open match play at Trentham.

This year, Morris has placed second in the Leveret Trophy, the prestigious stroke play event which is one of the season’s curtain raisers, and also reached the match play stages of the French Under-21 championship.