Charlotte Naughton’s {golfing} profession was already on an upward trajectory, however the teenager will hit quick ahead.
That’s as a result of she is getting ready to tee up within the AIG Girls’s Open – the primary main of her profession.
Nonetheless 18, Naughton solely secured her spot at Royal Lytham & St Annes this week by advantage of profitable the European Girls Beginner Championship in Sweden on Sunday.
Now the younger newbie heads to Lancashire to take her place alongside Charley Hull, Nelly Korda and the opposite star names of girls’s golf when the event begins on Thursday.
“I’ve all the time dreamed about it,” Naughton advised BBC Radio Newcastle. “I by no means actually knew it will come this fast however I am so joyful and so proud to have the ability to play.”
She was the youngest member of the Nice Britain & Eire Curtis Cup staff below the captaincy of Catriona Matthew that performed the US in California final month.
Naughton, who performs at Longhirst Corridor close to Morpeth in Northumberland, received the World Junior Ladies Championship and was a part of Europe’s Junior Ryder Cup staff in New York in 2025, and earlier this 12 months, she received the distinguished Junior Orange Bowl in Florida by seven strokes – one thing she shares on her CV with Tiger Woods.
However she describes the win in Sweden a couple of days in the past as “the most effective achievement of my profession” and with it comes the carrot of a spot on this fiftieth anniversary version of the AIG Girls’s Open.
Naughton hopes that competing up shut with the elite of girls’s golf will likely be an excellent barometer of what she must do to progress additional.
“It is an excellent alternative to play in opposition to a few of the finest golfers on this planet and see the place my recreation stands in opposition to them,” she mentioned.
“It feels actually cool to have the ability to play with individuals I look as much as and aspire to be once I’m older.”
