World’s Top-Ranked Amateurs Set to Compete in Abu Dhabi

The list of players that will represent their countries on the 36 men’s and 36 women’s teams in the 2023 World Amateur Team Championships (WATC) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has been finalised.

The Championships are hosted by the Emirates Golf Federation and will be played at Abu Dhabi Golf Club. The men will compete for the Eisenhower Trophy from 18-21 October and the women will play for the Espirito Santo Trophy from 25-28 October.

The Championships are played over 72 holes of stroke play. Each country is represented by a team of two or three players with the two lowest scores counting per round. Sweden won the Espirito Santo Trophy in 2022 while the men’s team from Italy took home the Eisenhower Trophy.

Eight of the top 10 players in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking® will compete in Abu Dhabi later this month, including Sweden’s Ingrid Lindblad (No. 1), Spain’s Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio (No. 2), the Republic of Korea’s Minsol Kim (No. 4) and the USA’s Anna Davis (No. 5).

Four of the top five players in the men’s ranking headline the field for the Eisenhower Trophy, including No. 2 Christo Lamprecht, of South Africa, and the USA’s Gordon Sargent (No. 1), Nick Dunlap (No. 4) and David Ford (No. 5).

About the World Amateur Team Championships (WATC)

The World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur golf competition conducted by the International Golf Federation. The women contest the Espirito Santo Trophy while the men compete for the Eisenhower Trophy. This year marks the 30th edition of the women’s WATC which was first played in 1964 in France. The men’s Championship was first played in 1958 on the Old Course of St. Andrews and 2023 is its 33rd edition.

About the International Golf Federation (IGF)

The IGF is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the international federation for golf. In addition to the World Amateur Team Championships, the IGF also organises the golf competitions at the Olympic Games and the Youth Olympic Games. The IGF is composed of 152 members federations from 149 countries, representing more than 66 million people who play golf.

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