The 2025 Vagliano & Junior Vagliano Trophies get underway on Friday at Royal Hague Golf & Country Club, Netherlands.

The Continent of Europe will face Great Britain & Ireland in two separate matches over two days.

Two teams of eight women, will contest the Vagliano Trophy, while two teams of six junior girls, aged 16-and-under, will compete for the Junior Vagliano Trophy.

ABOUT THE EVENT

Vagliano Trophy 

The Vagliano Trophy was presented by André Vagliano to the French Golf Federation and the Ladies’ Golf Union in 1931, originally for an annual match between Great Britain & Ireland and France.

From 1949 to 1957 Great Britain had also played a biennial match against Belgium. In 1959 the two matches were replaced by one with GB&I playing a team representing the Continent of Europe, the Vagliano Trophy being used for the new event.

The match takes place over two days. Four foursomes matches in the morning and eight singles matches in the afternoon are played on both days with 24 total points available to the teams.

Junior Vagliano Trophy

Introduced in 2011, the Junior Vagliano Trophy is an annual event for girls under the age of 16 as of January 1st of the event year. Like the women’s match, the junior version sees GB&I and the Continent of Europe go head-to-head, competing in singles and foursomes matches over two days. The Continent of Europe has historically dominated the event, winning the first seven matches, with Great Britain and Ireland securing their first victory in 2024.

THE VENUE

Royal Hague Golf & Country Club, is the oldest golf club in the Netherlands, established in 1893. Located in the picturesque dune landscape of Wassenaar, just north of The Hague, the club offers a rich history and a challenging golfing experience.

Royal Hague has a storied history of hosting prestigious tournaments. Notably, it was the venue for the 1965 European Ladies' Team Championship, the 1977 European Amateur Team Championship and more recently the European Amateur Championship in 2017 which saw Nicolai Hojgaard lift the trophy.

THE TEAMS

Junior Vagliano Team

Louise Uma Landgraf (FRA)

Alice Kong (FRA)

Liz Siyu Hao Zhang (ESP)

Angela Revuelta (ESP)

Salomé Lumbaca (FRA)

Adriana Garcia Terol (ESP)

Louise Uma Landgraf returns to the team for a second consecutive year. The French international has been one of the top performers of any age category in Europe so far this season, which has fuelled a rise into the top 75 of the World Amateur Golf Rankings. On the week she turned 15 in January of this year, Landgraf claimed the Portuguese International Ladies’ Amateur Championship, one of the biggest titles in European women’s golf.

Alice Kong will also tee it up for the Continent of Europe team for the second straight year, and is the second of three French selections. At just 14 years of age, Kong impressively earned a top-5 finish at the European Ladies’ Amateur Championship last summer and has already shown good form this season. Now 15, the French junior won the Esmond Trophy in April, France’s International U21 Championship. Alongside French and European teammate, Louise Uma Landgraf, the pair will look to lead Europe’s charge to win back the trophy from GB&I following their first victory in the contest last year.

The four other announced selections will be ‘rookies’. Liz Siyu Hao Zhang (ESP), Angela Revuelta (ESP) Salomé Lumbaca (FRA) and Adriana Garcia Terol will sport European colours for the first time this week. 

Although representing your continent is generally a rare achievement, Liz Siyu & Angela won’t be the first in their families to represent a continental team. Liz Siyu’s older brother, Jorge Hao has twice represented the Continent of Europe in the Jacques Léglise Trophy, while Andrea Revuelta, Angela’s older sister, played in the junior girls match in 2022.

Vagliano Team

Sara Brentcheneff (FRA)

Emma Kaisa Dalgaard Bunch (DEN)

Cayetana Fernández García-Poggio (ESP)

Carolina Lopez-Chacarra Coto (ESP)

Marie Eline Madsen (DEN)

Paula Martín Sampedro (ESP)

Valentine Delon (FRA)

Camille Min-Gaultier (FRA)

Cayetana Fernández is the only selection to have played in the last edition of the biennial match in 2023 at Royal Dornoch. However, three of the selections – Bunch, Lopez-Chacarra and Madsen, represented Europe at the Patsy Hankins Trophy against Asia-Pacific in January and will wear the colours of Europe for a second time this year.

Paula Martín Sampedro, Camille Min-Gaultier and Sara Brentcheneff will be making their first appearance on a European team. The Spaniard will nevertheless be the highest ranked player on the squad, currently sitting in 7th position in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. Sampedro also just won the Women’s Amateur Championship in Scotland and will arrive in The Netherlands full of confidence to represent the European team. 

Following solid performances, Camille Min-Gaultier will join her fellow French compatriot Sara Brentcheneff to complete a great team of promising golfers. Sara Brentcheneff has yet to reach her 18th birthday and will be the youngest player on the team. A former PING Junior Solheim Cup participant, Brentcheneff has been one of the top performers in Europe so far this year with podium finishes at both the Portuguese and Spanish international amateur championships. The French junior has also impressed in LET Access Series tournaments, winning the Super Bock Ladies Open in Portugal last month. Another French player, Valentine Delon, joins the team for the first time and will try to defend the European colours in the Netherlands.

LIVESCORING/ MEDIA

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