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Two-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Meghan Bolger is among the eight players selected for this year’s United States Curtis Cup team, sources told Golfweek Monday.

Seven players were considered by many to be locks for the team, which will compete against its counterparts from Great Britain & Ireland May 30-June 1 on the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Bolger rounded out the team, while Pepperdine freshman Taylore Karle was named the first alternate after her recent strong play on the women’s amateur circuit. Karle was co-champion of the Silver Belle Dec. 30 and runner-up at the Harder Hall Invitational the next week.

Bolger, who will turn 30 on the first day of the Curtis Cup, is the only mid-amateur on a team made up otherwise of collegians and juniors.

The other seven team members are:

• Duke junior Amanda Blumenherst, two-time winner of Golfweek’s College Player of the Year award and 2007 U.S. Women’s Amateur runner-up.

• Mina Harigae, the 2007 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links champion and Golfweek’s third-ranked junior.

• UCLA junior Tiffany Joh, winner of the 2006 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links and No. 4 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings.

• Duke junior Jennie Lee, low amateur at this year’s U.S. Women’s Open and No. 9 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings.

• Kimberly Kim, the 2006 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion and Golfweek’s top-ranked junior.

• Arkansas senior Stacy Lewis, the 2007 NCAA champion and two-time Golfweek Amateur of the Year.

• Arizona senior Alison Walshe, the 2007 North & South Amateur and 2008 Harder Hall Invitational winner.
Posted: 1/14/2008

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