florida’s orange blossom circuit should enjoy added
drama in 2012, given the potential impact of its three
women’s individual amateur events—last week’s harder
hall women’s invitational, this week’s south atlantic
amateur (sally) and next week’s ione d. Jones/doherty
championship—on the u.s. curtis cup team. the last
three players on the eight-woman squad will be selected
by month’s end, joining the five players (all collegians)
already picked by the usga—north dakota state’s amy
anderson, duke’s lindy duncan, ucla’s tiffany lua, ala-
bama’s brooke pancake and lsu’s austin ernst—to play
at scotland’s nairn gc in June. interestingly, though, al-
though saturday’s finish at harder hall cc in sebring, had
curtis cup overtones, they weren’t red, white and blue.
england’s charley hull shot a closing 69 to beat thai-
land’s ariya Jutanugarn (73) by two, seemingly securing
the 15-year-old hull a spot on the great britain & ireland
squad. as for the americans, the main subplot involves
whether a junior golfer will make their lineup. florida na-
tive Jaye marie green, 17, (shown) is the leading candi-
date as she attempts to defend her 2011 sally title. if she’s
passed over—arkansas sophomore emily tubert, the
2010 women’s publinks champ, is one likely choice—it
would run counter to the youth movement that saw high
schoolers on the 2004 (paula creamer/michelle wie),
2008 (kimberly kim) and 2010 (lexi thompson/Jessica
korda) u.s. teams. —Ryan Herrington
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