SDSU Golfer Heather MacRae To Represent Great Britain, Ireland At Vagliano Trophy Match

MacRae one of nine selected to compete at the Chantilly Golf Club

Heather MacRae will compete in the prestigious Vagliano Trophy match, July 22-23, in Chantilly, France.
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June 21, 2005

SAN DIEGO - San Diego State senior Heather MacRae (Dunblane, Scotland) is among nine golfers who have been selected to represent Great Britain and Ireland at the Vagliano Trophy match, July 22-23, at the Chantilly Golf Club in Chantilly, France. The Great Britain and Ireland team will face a squad from Europe in an event that has been held every two years since 1959.

"I am absolutely delighted with the selection," MacRae said. "I cannot wait for the experience and moving my golf game to the next level."

MacRae was chosen for the team by an international selection committee of five members, under the direction of the Ladies' Golf Union, the governing body for ladies' amateur golf in Great Britain and Ireland. The committee first picks a squad of 15 to 20 players to participate in training sessions during the winter months (April-Oct.), before announcing the final group in early June.

The Vagliano Trophy match is a two-day amateur event with foursomes (alternate shot) in the morning, pitting two players from each squad against one another with each side playing just one ball. The afternoon will consist of 18 holes of singles match play. The tournament follows the same format as the Curtis Cup, which features a team from the U.S. versus a team from Great Britain and Ireland.

MacRae recently competed in the British Open Amateur Championships at the Littlestone Golf Club in Kent, England, June 9-11. She defeated Ireland's Heather Nolan in the first round of match play (3&2), before falling to Canada's Veronique Drouin on the final hole. She advanced to the championships by tying for 42nd place out of 133 golfers with a 36-hole score of 11-over 155, including seven birdies, at the qualifying tournament also held at Littlestone, June 7-8.

MacRae will attend a training camp with her Vagliano Trophy match teammates this week before representing Scotland at the 2005 European Ladies Team Championship in Karlstad, Sweden, July 5-9.

A transfer from McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, MacRae won the national junior college individual title in 2003, and led the Highlanders to the team championship in 2002. As an Aztec, she finished in the top 10 three times and in the top 20 on five occasions during her junior campaign in 2003-04, before redshirting last season.