Lauren Walsh joins Leona Maguire and the world's best at Women’s Open at Carnoustie

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Ireland’s Leona Maguire tees off on the 13th at the Pro-Am prior to the AIG Women’s Open at Carnoustie yesterday. Picture: Getty Images

Wake Forest standout Lauren Walsh is still acclimatising to the fact that she will tee it up at a major alongside the great and the good of pro golf at the AIG Women’s Open Championship. which tees off Thursday at Carnoustie.

Walsh, from Castlewarden GC in Kildare and a sophomore at Wake Forest University, was disappointed to miss out in April on the Augusta National Women’s Amateur but says this week more than makes up for the disappointment - not least because her sister Clodagh will be on her bag for the week.