Junior Vagliano Trophy
The Junior Vagliano Trophy is an annual girls amateur golf tournament. It is co-organised by The R&A and the European Golf Association and is contested by teams representing "Great Britain and Ireland" and the "Continent of Europe". The first event was in 2011. Originally it was played in odd-numbered years at the same time and location as the Vagliano Trophy but in 2021 it became an annual event. Girls must be under-16 on 1 January of the year of the event. The Continent of Europe won the first seven matches. The eighth match was tied but the Continent of Europe retained the Trophy.[1] Great Britain and Ireland won for the first time in 2024.
Format
[edit]The competition involves various match play matches between players selected from the two teams of 6, either singles and foursomes. The winner of each match scores a point for their team, with half a point each for any match that is tied after 18 holes. If the entire match is tied, the previously winning team retains the Trophy.
A foursomes match is a competition between two teams of two golfers. The golfers on the same team take alternate shots throughout the match, with the same ball. Each hole is won by the team that completes the hole in the fewest shots. A fourball match is a competition between two teams of two golfers. All four golfers play their own ball throughout the round. Each hole is won by the team whose individual golfer had the lowest score. A singles match is a standard match play competition between two golfers.
The contest is played over two days, with three foursomes and six singles matches on each day, a total of 18 points.
Results
[edit]In 2024 the first day foursomes were not played because of bad weather.
| Year | Venue | Winning team Captain |
Score | Losing team Captain |
Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | West Lancashire Golf Club (Blundellsands, England) |
 Great Britain &  Ireland Deirdre Walsh
|
8 | 7 |  Continent of Europe Myrte Eikenaar
|
[2] |
| 2023 | Royal Dornoch Golf Club (Dornoch, Scotland) |
Continent of Europe Myrte Eikenaar
|
9 | 9 | Great Britain & Ireland Janet Melville
|
[3] |
| 2022 | Blairgowrie Golf Club (Blairgowrie, Scotland) |
Continent of Europe Myrte Eikenaar
|
10 | 8 | Great Britain & Ireland Janet Melville
|
[4] |
| 2021 | Hilversumsche Golf Club (Hilversum, Netherlands) |
Continent of Europe Myrte Eikenaar
|
14 | 4 | Great Britain & Ireland Janet Davies
|
[5] |
| 2019 | Royal St George's Golf Club (Sandwich, England) |
Continent of Europe Ane Urchegui García
|
10½ | 7½ | Great Britain & Ireland Maria Dunne
|
[6] |
| 2017 | Circolo Golf Bogogno (Bogogno, Italy) |
Continent of Europe Ane Urchegui García
|
15 | 3 | Great Britain & Ireland Claire Coughlan-Ryan
|
[7] |
| 2015 | Malone Golf Club (Dunmurry, Northern Ireland) |
Continent of Europe Thea Hoffmeister
|
10½ | 7½ | Great Britain & Ireland Helen Hewlett
|
[8] |
| 2013 | Golf de Chantilly (Chantilly, Oise, France) |
Continent of Europe Kristin Gunhildrud
|
14 | 4 | Great Britain & Ireland Elaine Farquharson-Black
|
[9] |
| 2011 | Royal Porthcawl Golf Club (Porthcawl, Wales) |
Continent of Europe Kristin Gunhildrud
|
13 | 5 | Great Britain & Ireland Sue Turner
|
[10] |
Teams
[edit]Great Britain and Ireland
[edit]- 2024:
Olivia Costello, 
Lauren Crump, Ellie Lichtenhein, 
Carly McDonald, Charlotte Naughton, Annabel Peaford - 2023: Sadie Adams, Olivia Costello, Kate Dillon,
Isobel Kelly, Rosie Kim, Chloe Tarbard - 2022: Grace Crawford, Marina Joyce Moreno, Rosie Kim, Isla McDonald-O'Brien, Amelia Wan, Maggie Whitehead
- 2021: Grace Crawford, Rosie Kim, Harriet Lockley,
Katie Poots, Maggie Whitehead, Ellen Yates - 2019: Beth Coulter, Hannah Darling, Carmen Griffiths, Darcey Harry, Patience Rhodes, Ffion Tynan
- 2017: Sarah Byrne, Caitlin Whitehead, Lily May Humphreys, Mimi Rhodes, Ffion Tynan, Carys Worby
- 2015: Hazel MacGarvie, Mairead Martin, Shannon McWilliam, Hollie Muse, Emily Price, Annabel Wilson
- 2013: Samantha Fuller, Alice Hewson, Sophie Lamb, Fiona Liddell, Sophie Madden, Olivia Mehaffey
- 2011: Georgia Hall, Charley Hull, Bronte Law, Amber Ratcliffe, Clara Young, Chloe Williams
Continent of Europe
[edit]- 2024:
Olivia Holmberg, 
Alice Kong, Louise Uma Landgraf, 
Nagore Martinez Salcedo, Martina Navarro Navarro, Lily Reitter - 2023:
Natalia Aparicio, Ginevra Coppa, 
Kinga Kuśmierska, 
Sofia Maier-Borst, Marie-Élodie Prats-Rigual, Antonia Steiner - 2022:
Johanna Axelsen, Anna Cañadó, Carla de Troia, Andrea Revuelta, 
Perla Sól Sigurbrandsdóttir, 
Lynn van der Sluijs - 2021: Helen Briem, Cayetana Fernández, Francesca Fiorellini, Constance Fouillet, Meja Örtengren, Nora Sundberg
- 2019:
Pia Babnik, Francesca Fiorellini, 
Nataliya Guseva, Amalie Leth-Nissen, Carolina López-Chacarra, Lucie Malchirand - 2017: Caterina Don, Blanca Fernández,
Isabella Holpfer, Amanda Linnér, Alessia Nobilio, Emilie Alba Paltrinieri - 2015: Mathilde Claisse, Julia Engström, Isabella Holpfer, Frida Kinhult, Agathe Laisné, Emma Spitz
- 2013: Mathilda Cappeliez, Eva Gilly,
Csicsi Rózsa, Alejandra Pasarín, Covadonga Sanjuán, 
Albane Valenzuela - 2011: Shannon Aubert, Clara Baena, Quirine Eijkenboom, Karolin Lampert, Harang Lee, Emily Kristine Pedersen
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Junior Vagliano Trophy" (PDF). EGA. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Europe win 5th straight Jacques Léglise Trophy as GB&I win first Junior Vagliano Trophy". European Golf Association. 25 August 2024.
- ^ "2023 Junior Vagliano Trophy". EGA. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ "2022 Junior Vagliano Trophy". EGA. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "2021 Junior Vagliano Trophy". EGA. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
- ^ "The Junior Vagliano Trophy Royal St George's" (PDF). EGA. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Junior Vagliano Trophy Bogogno Golf Resort, Italy" (PDF). EGA. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Junior Vagliano Trophy Malone GC, Ireland" (PDF). EGA. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Junior Vagliano Trophy Chantilly Golf Club, France" (PDF). EGA. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Junior Vagliano Trophy Royal Porthcawl, Wales" (PDF). EGA. Retrieved 30 August 2019.