A YOUNG Turnberry golfer is one of six girls who will savour the opportunity of a lifetime as part of the handover ceremony for The 2019 Solheim Cup coming to Scotland, the Home of Golf – after launching their own bid to qualify for the PING Junior Solheim Cup.

Through the support of the Scottish Government, VisitScotland, Scottish Golf and the Ladies European Tour, Rachel Foster has been selected for a dream trip to the Solheim Cup at Des Moines Golf & Country Club in Iowa from August 18 to 20. The initiative was borne from a Whatsapp group entitled #Project19, the group began as a way of the girls motivating each other to climb the amateur golf rankings and qualify to represent Team Europe at the 2019 PING Junior Solheim Cup at Gleneagles.

Along with Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe), Eilidh Henderson (Kirkcaldy), Evanna Hynd (Balbirnie Park), Carmen Griffiths (Aboyne) and Anna McKay (Crail Golfing Society) she will experience the thrill of the biggest team event in female golf, before the baton is passed to Gleneagles for the 2019 staging over The PGA Centenary Course.

The Scottish Golf Academy players, all but one of whom have come through the ClubGolf national junior programme, will engage with Team Europe at the PING Junior Solheim Cup, work with the VisitScotland team on stand producing blogs and other media content and experience the excitement around the event where Scotland’s Catriona Matthew is a vice-captain and form a part of the handover ceremony to Gleneagles and Scotland for the 2019 event.

The six girls will also be part of two Pro-Am teams competing in the Ricoh Women’s British Open at Kingsbarns on Tuesday, August 1.