World Amateur Team Championships: Ireland In Contention After Day One

The Irish trio of Olivia Mehaffey, Paula Grant, and Anabel Wilson are right in contention at the World Amateur Team Championships at Carton House.

Mehaffey was the best of the Irish, posting a strong 70, while her teammates Anabel Wilson and Paula Grant posted 71 and 74, respectively. The Irish were playing in the heavyweight grouping of USA and Republic of Korea, who posted totals of 142 and 140 respectively. World No. 1 Jennifer Kupcho also posted a 70 on the Montgomery Course, further underlining the strength of Mehaffey’s performance.

Japan sit atop the World Amateur Team Championships leaderboard with 136 after a stunning seven under par 65 from sixteen-year-old Yuka Yasuda. The feat is all the more impressive considering she had just touched down in Ireland less than twenty-four hours prior to hitting the Carton House fairways.

England sit thirteen shots back after the team of Annabel Fuller (74), Sophie Lamb (75) and Hollie Muse (77) posted a score of 149.

The full leaderboard for the Espirito Santo Trophy (World Amateur Team Championships) is as follows.
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World Amateur Team Championships Standings after Round One

136 – Japan (Yoshida 71, Yasuda 65, Nishimura 71)

140 – People’s Republic of China (Du 67, Liu 77, Yin 73)

140 – Republic of Korea (Kwon 74, Hong 72, Cho 68)

141 – Australia (Kay 68, Kim 73, Hodgkins 75)

141 – Ireland (Mehaffey 70, Grant 74, Wilson 71)

142 – Austria (Bettel 69, Ruettimann 76, Spitz 73)

142 – Germany (Harm 70, Hausmann 73, Henseleit 72)

142 – United States of America (Gillman 74, Vu 72, Kupcho 70)

143 – Italy (Don 70, Paltrinieri 76, Nobilio 73)

144 – Hong Kong, China (Cheung 70, Ho 74, Leung 78)

145 – Venezuela (Raga 73, Gilly 84, De Antonio 72)

147 – Belgium (Aveling 78, Louis 73, Van Dievoet 74)

147 – Denmark (Fredgaard 79, Nielsen 75, Hansen 72)

147 – Mexico (Lopez 73, Ruiz Laphond 79, Fassi 74)

147 – Netherlands (Bontan 72, Meekers 75, Weber 77)

147 – Sweden (Kinhult 74, Wallin 80, Grant 73)

147 – Switzerland (Valenzuela 73, Berger 79, Moosmann 74)

147 – Thailand (Boon-In 77, Piddon 70, Tatematsu 77)

148 – Dominican Republic (Corrie-Kuehn 82, Kim 77, Kuehn 71)

148 – Finland (Backman 75, Saksa 76, Riihijarvi 73)

148 – France (Roussin-Bouchard 72, Broze 76, Laisne 76)

148 – Guatemala (Echeverria 73, Mendizabal Riepele 75, Arenas 81)

148 – New Zealand (Alvarez 73, Garvey 76, Keh 75)

148 – Scotland (Jaffrey 74, McCook 77, McWilliam 74)

149 – England (Fuller 74, Muse 77, Lamb 75)

149 – Paraguay (Escauriza Stoeckl 72, Garcia Peralta 83, Servin 77)

150 – Czech Republic (Ryskova 77, Vlasinova 77, Kouskova 73)

150 – Morocco (Laklalech 78, Rich 84, Belmati 72)

150 – Norway (Stormo 77, Forbrigd 73, Hjelle Grimstad 78)

150 – Puerto Rico (Rodriguez 77, Rivera 75, Pacheco Claudio 75)

150 – South Africa (Telfer 75, Mistry 79, MacNab 75)

151 – India (Dagar 74, Dilawari 77, Sagoo 78)

152 – Argentina (Anacona 75, Rossi 79, Simmermacher 77)

152 – Spain (Marfa Sans 80, Hualde Zuniga 77, Perez Sanmartin 75)

153 – Chinese Taipei (Lin 74, Lin 79, Huang 79)

154 – Brazil (Grinberg 74, Lacaz Martins 88, de Araujo Caetano 80)

154 – Canada (Ko 78, Lee 76, Szeryk 80)

154 – Chile (Morgan 78, Matte 80, Villavicencio 76)

154 – Colombia (Garces Escalante 75, Giraldo Roys 83, Serrano Silva 79)

154 – Malaysia (Shaari 78, Wong 76, Durisic 78)

154 – Uruguay (Schmid 76, Marques 79, Garcia Austt Marques 78)

155 – Iceland (Kristinsdottir 85, Traustadottir 76, Einarsdottir 79)

155 – Lithuania (Jarasunaite 80, Starkute 75)

157 – Peru (Farah 75, Ballesteros 82, Fernandez-Davila 82)

157 – Slovakia (Heckova 80, Drocarova 81, Bolcikova 77)

157 – Wales (Morris 79, Ryan 81, O’Connor 78)

158 – Portugal (Barroso Sa 80, Bessa 78, Gouveia 81)

158 – Singapore (Chen 82, Ng 79, Tan 79)

159 – Poland (Polivchak 87, Gradecka 76, Zalewska 83)

160 -Slovenia (Fric 81, Obersnel 73, Jecnik 83)

161 – Turkey (Ersoy 83, Bilgic 80, Timur 81)

162 – Guam (Tarpley 87, Vongjalorn 78, Peterson 84)

165 – Bulgaria (Borisova 82, Simeonova 83, Skokanska 90)

165 – Latvia (Gustafssone 89, Jucmane 79, Marksa 86)

168 – Lebanon (Assaf 100, Richani 79, Assaf 89)

168 – Tunisia (Ladhari 86, Mansouri 84, Saki 84)

169 – Ukraine (Rastvortseva 81, Horokhovska 88, Sapronova 98)
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Day 2 of the World Amateur Team Championships takes place at Carton House. Free tickets are available here.

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