Belfast teenager Brenda McLarnon, a student at the Leadbetter Golf Academy in Florida, will make her senior interprovincial debut next month at Mount Wolseley.
McLarnon, a member of the Fortwilliam club, is one of three changes in the Ulster team to try to dethrone Leinster on August 7th and 8th.
Recalled are Nikki Moore of Clandeboye and Gemma Hegarty of Greencastle, who last played for Ulster two years ago.
Ulster's leading player, Alison Coffey, is, of course, unavailable because of Curtis Cup commitments for Britain and Ireland against the US in Pittsburgh, while also absent are Joanne Black (Knock) and Bronagh Lunney (Belvoir Park).
ULSTER: Emma Dickson (Royal Co Down Ladies), Gemma Hegarty (Greencastle), Helen Jones (Strabane), Jill McAuley (Dunmurry), Brenda McLarnon (Fortwilliam), Nikki Moore (Clandeboye), Naiomh Quigg (City of Derry) and Caroline Smyth (Massereene). Reserves: Vikki McWilliams (Holywood), Maura Diamond (Portstewart) and Roma Convery (Cairndhu).
Irish international Claire Coughlan will lead the Munster team. A recent winner of the Leitrim Cup as the leading qualifier in the Irish Women's Close Championship at her home course Cork Golf Club at Little Island, Coughlan will be anxious to get back to winning ways after an early exit in the matchplay to Woodbrook's Sandra Atkinson.
Coughlan will be joined by Trish Mangan from Ennis, who figured prominently over the weekend in the Women's British Mid-Amateur Championship at the Berkshire Club, finishing fifth behind the winner, Anne Laing, the Scottish international and member of the Curtis Cup team. Also in the team is three-time Irish champion Eileen Rose Power from Kilkenny.
MUNSTER: Claire Coughlan (Cork), Sheila Gavin (Limerick), Bridget Gleeson Healy (Killarney), Trish Mangan (Ennis), Gillian O'Leary (Youghal), Eileen Rose Power (Kilkenny), Marian Riordan (Tipperary) and Mary Sheehy (Tralee).
CONNACHT: S Corcoran (Portumna), S Gallagher (Claremorris), M Holmes (Enniscrone), D Judge (Roscommon), R Lennon (Roscommon), R McGoldrick (Enniscrone), D McGowan (Athenry), S O'Sullivan (Galway).
Meanwhile, Ireland's top young players face a busy week ahead with the Irish junior girls (under-21) competing in the European Lady Junior Team Championship in Moscow, while the Irish Youths team are in Gdansk in Poland and the Boys team take on the rest of Europe in Rejkjavik, Iceland.
All three events begin this morning with the first of two qualifying rounds that will decide who goes into the top flight of eight for the matchplay starting on Thursday.
Lillian Starrett is the non-playing captain of the girls' team while John Long and John Moloughney are captains of the youths and boys' teams respectively.
Connemara's Derek McNamara passed a late fitness test and took his place on the youths team, but Michael McHugh had to cry-off the boys team and his place went to last year's Leinster Boys' champion, Gareth Shaw from Lurgan.
IRELAND (Girls): Amy Duggan (Killarney), Maria Dunne (Skerries), Martina Gillen (Beaverstown), Susie Hayes (Hermitage), Heather Nolan (Shannon) and Gillian O'Leary (Youghal).
IRELAND (Youths): Darren Crowe (Royal Dublin), Richard Kilpatrick (Banbridge), Brian McElhinney (North West), Robert McCarthy (The Island), Alastair McKinley (Shandon Park) and Derek McNamara (Connemara).
IRELAND (Boys): Clancy Bowe (Tramore), Jonathon Caldwell (Clandeboye), Martin McTernan (Co Sligo), Michael Mulryan (Athenry), David Rawluk (The Island), Gareth Shaw (Lurgan).
Meanwhile after 93 years at Eglinton Park, Tivoli Road, Dún Laoghaire Golf Club are on the move. At an extraordinary general meeting recently the members agreed by a large majority to accept an offer from Cosgrave Property Group.
The meeting was held in the Marine Hotel which, ironically, was the venue that the decision to form a club in 1909 was made.
In exchange for their 18-hole course which is divided by the Glenageary Road, Dún Laoghaire will move to a fully-developed 27-holes complex on the Ballyman Road, just six miles from their present location.
The original course, which was known as the Kingstown Golf Club, was nine holes, but was extended to 18 after being redesigned by architect Harry Colt after the first World War.
The first captain was the respected golf writer Lionel Hewson, and the Kingstown Club became the Dún Laoghaire Golf Club in 1951. The move is expected in the spring of 2008.
