Duggleby makes Curtis Cup squad (From Gazette & Herald)

Duggleby makes Curtis Cup squad

EMMA Duggleby has double cause for celebration this week.

Just 24 hours after the Malton and Norton amateur helped a Great Britain and Ireland select team beat a team of professionals from the Ladies' European Tour on Saturday, she learned she had been picked for the Curtis Cup team to play the USA this June.

Duggleby will be hoping to make it third time lucky when the cup is played at Formby Golf Club, near Southport, on June 12-13, having been on losing Great Britain and Ireland teams twice before.

And she believes this could be the year she breaks her duck.

"I think we've got a very good chance, especially having won the Vagliano Trophy last year and now the Weetabix Challenge last weekend."

The Weetabix-sponsored event saw GB and Ireland thrash the European Tour professionals 16.5-4.5 - only their second triumph in 11 years.

Duggleby was in fine form for the event, which was also held at Formby, a course which she expressed a liking for.

In the foursomes with Shelley McKevitt, she beat A Munt and S Heath 4 and 3, before winning her singles against Munt 4 and 2.

Duggleby said: "It's a fantastic course - a cross between a heathland and links course. It's very pretty."

She is in action again this weekend when she heads north to play in the Helen Holm Scottish Open at Troon.

Other players in the GB and Ireland Curtis Cup team are: Claire Coughlan, Anna Highgate, Anne Laing, Danielle Masters, Shelley McKevitt, Fame More and Nicola Timmins.

Updated: 11:29 Wednesday, April 21, 2004