Irish trio named on GB&I Curtis Cup team

Sara Byrne, Beth Coulter and Aine Donegan have been given the nod for Sunningdale in England at the end of the month.

Cork golfer Sara Byrne teeing off the 18th in Lahinch on the final day of the Arnold Palmer Cup.

Irish golfers Sara Byrne, Beth Coulter and Aine Donegan have been selected on the eight-woman Great Britain and Ireland team to face the USA in the 43rd Curtis Cup match at Sunningdale in England at the end of the month.

Douglas golfer Byrne, 23, Coulter, aged 20 from Kirkistown Castle, and Lahinch’s 22-year-old Donegan will line up alongside three English and two Scottish team-mates as they bid to regain the upper hand for GB & I in the biennial women’s amateur matchplay team event for the first time since 2016. That was when Ireland last had such a strong representation, on home soil at Dun Laoghaire with Maria Dunne, Leona Maguire and Olivia Mehaffey helped their side to an 11.5-8.5 victory.