Shropshire golfer Lauren Crump selected for England team for World Junior Girls Championship

The Hill Valley golfer will line up alongside Ellie Lichtenhein and Annabel Peaford at Brampton Golf Club from September 30 to October 3 at the prestigious international event.

Crump’s selection comes after a remarkable season in which the 17-year-old has established herself as one of the country’s brightest young talents and saw her selected for the junior European Solheim Cup, which starts on Monday.

The Whitchurch teenager produced one of the standout performances of the year when she won the ANNIKA Invitational Europe in Sweden by a record 10 shots, firing rounds of 66, 69 and 69 for a 12-under-par total. The victory made her just the second English winner of the event.

She has also demonstrated her ability to compete with professionals, winning a Rose Ladies Series event at Southport & Ainsdale as an amateur and enjoying several strong finishes in professional tournaments.

Crump’s breakthrough year also saw her qualify for the 50th AIG Women’s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes, where she narrowly missed the cut by a single shot on her major championship debut.

Internationally, Crump helped England win silver at the European Girls’ Team Championship and claimed five victories from six matches as England Women won the Home Internationals.

Now her attention turns to Canada, where England will attempt to build on the success of last year, when Charlotte Naughton became the nation’s first individual winner at the championship.

The World Junior Girls Championship brings together the leading golfing nations, with teams competing over four rounds of stroke play. The best two individual scores from each round count towards the team total.

England captain Jenny Henderson said: "We've been close to the podium on a number of occasions with several fourth-place finishes in recent years, and our aim is to build on that record, be competitive throughout the week, and give ourselves every opportunity to challenge for further success on the team and individual leaderboards." .

England have gone close to the podium on several occasions, recording a number of fourth-place finishes, but has yet to win a medal since the tournament began in 2014.