Date: March 07, 2011
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Australians arrive in Delhi

The Australian team of Ashley Ona, Breanna Elliott and Jessica Speechley has arrived in Delhi today for the 2011 Queen Sirikit Cup at Delhi Golf Club. Golf Australia High Peformance Director Brad James said the team had arrived safely in Delhi. “We went for a tour around Delhi which was really good – it&aposs a very busy place” James said. “The golf course looks very tight with slow bumpy greens,” he added. Australia last won the tournament in 2001 where Rebecca Stevenson won the individual event. Individual leaders at the Queen Sirikit Cup have gone on to be among the best in the world – including World Number 1 Yani Tseng, MJ Hur, Shinobu Moromizato and former British Open champion Jeong Jang. Elliott won this year&aposs Lake Macquarie Amateur Championship and in 2010 won the Queensland Women’s Stroke Play title and was a member of the joint-winning Victorian team at the Australian Women’s Interstate Teams Matches. A former Australian junior champion and the current ActewAGL Canberra Classic champion, Ona won the New South Wales Women’s Stroke Play in 2010 and has represented Australia before at the Trans-Tasman Cup. Speechley was one of two Karrie Webb Series scholarship recipients in 2010 and also won the Riversdale Cup. In 2009 Speechley won the South Australian and Western Australian Stroke Play titles. Golf Australia High Performance Director Brad James is the Team Manager in Delhi and Western Australian National Coach Ritchie Smith is the Team Coach. The championship is hosted annually on a rotation basis among 14 invited member countries with the objectives of promoting the standard of women’s golf in the region and to promote goodwill and friendship among participating teams. Each country is represented by 2-3 national team players who compete in the 54-holes stroke play over 3 rounds. Australia last won the tournament in 2001. Korea is the defending champion.