The USGA announced that five more players were added to its Curtis Cup roster, finalizing the American squad that is looking to defeat Great Britain and Ireland for the fourth consecutive time when the matches are contested Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at Sunningdale Golf Club in England.
Zoe Campos, Jasmine Koo and Catherine Park were the first trio named to the team earlier this summer. On Monday, Anna Davis, Melanie Green, Rachel Kuehn, Megan Schofill and Asterisk Talley joined them.
Kuehn, 23, has played on the last two Curtis Cup teams for the U.S., making her the first player since Virginia Derby Grimes in 1998, 2000 and 2006 to be named to three Curtis Cup teams. The other seven members will be making their cup debut.
"I am incredibly honored and excited to represent the USA again in a Curtis Cup match,” said Kuehn. “It’s not something I ever take for granted, and it’s a dream come true every time to be part of such a storied tradition. Playing alongside these amazing athletes and competing on behalf of our country is a tremendous privilege, and I can’t wait to get started.”
Kuehn, a recent Wake Forest graduate from Asheville, N.C., secured the clinching point for the Americans to win the 2021 matches in Wales and collected a 3-1 record. Two years ago, in a 15½ to 4½ rout at Merion, Kuehne went 4-1. She’s ranked No. 8 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
Campos, Koo and Park are ranked No. 4, 5 and 6 respectively. Campos, 21 and from Valencia, Calif., is the highest ranked American in the world, and will return to UCLA this fall for her senior season. She’s a two-time first-team All-American. Koo, 18, of Cerritos, Calif., will be a freshman at USC this fall and is the 2023 Women’s Western Amateur winner. Park, a 20-year-old from Irvine, Calif., is another Trojan who will be starting her junior season at USC here shortly. She shared low amateur honors at the U.S. Women’s Open earlier this summer.
Davis, an 18-year-old from Spring Valley, Calif., is ranked 16th and just completed her freshman season at Auburn. She reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur the last two years and won the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2022.
Green, 22, of Medina, N.Y., graduated from the University of South Florida in May. She became the first American since 1996 to win the Women’s British Amateur when she topped Lorna McClymont at Portmarnock outside Dublin in June.
Schofill, 23, and an Auburn graduate from Monticello, Fla., won the 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles. She also tied for low amateur honors this year at the U.S. Women’s Open at Lancaster (Pa.) Country Club.
At 15, Talley, of Chowchilla, Calif., is the youngest member of the American team, but has had a breakout summer. She shared low amateur honors at the U.S. Women’s Open with Park and Schofill and won the prestigious Junior Invitational at Sage Valley earlier this year. She was eighth at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, claimed the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball title with Sarah Lim and made it to the championship match in both the U.S. Girls’ Junior and last week’s U.S. Women’s Amateur.
Kiara Romero and Farah O’Keefe are alternates. Meghan Stasi, a four-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion, will captain the team. She was a member of the winning American team in 2008 at the Old Course.
Great Britain and Ireland finalized its roster earlier this month and is led by Lottie Woad, ranked No. 1 in the world and winner of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in April.
The Americans have won the last three Curtis Cups and have won 31 of the previous 42 contests. Great Britain and Ireland has won eight times and the matches have been tied on three occasions.