The USGA has finalised the eight players who will represent the USA in the 2024 Curtis Cup Match that will be held Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at Sunningdale Golf Club in England.
The five players added join the previous three who were automatic selections last month.
The five added players are:
Anna Davis, 18, of Spring Valley, Calif.
Melanie Green, 22, of Medina, N.Y.
Rachel Kuehn, 23, of Asheville, N.C.
Megan Schofill, 23, of Monticello, Fla.
Asterisk Talley, 15, of Chowchilla, Calif.
They join Zoe Campos, 21, of Valencia, Calif.; Jasmine Koo, 18, of Cerritos, Calif.; and Catherine Park, 20, of Irvine, Calif., who were named to the team as automatic selections earlier this summer due to their place on the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking®. Six of the eight players are currently inside the top 20 in the WAGR ®.
The USA Team will return just one player from the winning 2022 team, with Kuehn making her third consecutive appearance in the biennial competition. The recent Wake Forest graduate also competed in the 2021 Match in Wales, where she secured the clinching point for the Americans. Kuehn is the first player since Virginia Derby Grimes (1998, 2000, 2006) to be named to three Curtis Cup teams.
“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.”
The alternates for the USA Team are, in order of ranking: Kiara Romero, 18, of San Jose, Calif., and Farah O’Keefe, 19, of Austin, Texas.
Meghan Stasi, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will captain the 2024 USA Team. A four-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion, Stasi was a member of the victorious 2008 USA Curtis Cup Team held on the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Curtis Cup Match is contested by two teams of eight female amateur players, one from the United States of America and one from Great Britain and Ireland, which is composed of England, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The USGA’s International Team Selection working group selects the USA Team, while The R&A selects the GB&I Team.
Notable past USA Curtis Cup Team members include U.S. Women’s Open champions JoAnne Gunderson Carner, Paula Creamer, Juli Inkster, Cristie Kerr, Patty Sheehan, Hollis Stacy and Michelle Wie West, as well as past and present LPGA stars such as Jennifer Kupcho, Stacy Lewis, Lexi Thompson, Beth Daniel, Jessica Korda, Nancy Lopez and Rose Zhang.
PLAYER PROFILES
Zoe Campos, 21, of Valencia, Calif., is a rising senior at UCLA who led the Bruins in the 2023-24 season with four individual victories and a scoring average of 70.7. The four victories were a program-best for a single season. Campos was a finalist for the Annika Award, given to the most outstanding college player. She also helped UCLA advance to the championship match of the NCAA Championships in Carlsbad, Calif., eventually falling to Stanford. Campos is a two-time Women’s Golf Coaches Association and Golfweek first-team All American (2023 and 2024). She has competed in two major championships, including the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach, and represented the USA on two Palmer Cup teams. Campos is currently the top-ranked American in the world, sitting at No. 4 in WAGR.
Anna Davis, 18, of Spring Valley, Calif., is a rising sophomore at Auburn University. She reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur in consecutive years (2023 and 2024), her only two appearances in the championship. Davis made the cut and finished T-39 in the LPGA Tour’s CPKC Women’s Open last month, and earned her first collegiate win in May when she claimed the NCAA Auburn Regional to help the Tigers advance to the NCAA Championships in Carlsbad, Calif. Davis represented the USA in the 2023 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship and was a member of the 2023 U.S. Junior Ryder Cup and Junior Solheim Cup teams. She also competed as a member of the victorious 2024 U.S. Palmer Cup Team. Davis won the 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur, and is currently No. 16 in WAGR.
Melanie 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 Amateur Championship conducted by The R&A, defeating Lorna McClymont in the 36-hole final at Portmarnock Golf Club outside of Dublin. She won three tournaments during her career at USF, and was named the 2023-24 American Athletic Conference Player of the Year. Green represented the U.S. on the victorious 2024 Palmer Cup Team at Lahinch in the Republic of Ireland.
Jasmine Koo, 18, of Cerritos, Calif., is an incoming freshman at the University of Southern California. She is one of two Trojans (along with Catherine Park) on the 2024 USA Curtis Cup Team. Koo won the 2023 Women’s Western Amateur, and earlier this year tied for 13th in the 2024 Chevron Championship to earn low-amateur honors. Koo has competed in five USGA championships, with her best finish coming earlier this summer when she advanced to the semifinals of the 2024 U.S. Girls’ Junior, losing to eventual champion Rianne Malixi. That finish came after an already impressive 2024 season that included finishing third at the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley and fourth at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Koo previously represented her country as a member of the 2023 U.S. Junior Solheim Cup Team.
Rachel Kuehn, 23, of Asheville, N.C., is now a three-time member of the USA Curtis Cup Team, securing the clinching point in the 2021 and 2022 Matches at Conwy Golf Club in Wales and Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa. She becomes the 25th player in history to compete on three USA Curtis Cup teams, and first since Virginia Derby Grimes in 2006. Kuehn became the first Wake Forest women’s golfer in program history and just the sixth Atlantic Coast Conference women’s golfer to be named the ACC Player of the Year in back-to-back seasons. She collected two individual titles during both the 2023-24 and 2022-23 school year, and eight total over her five-year career. She also led Wake Forest to the 2023 NCAA Division I title, the first for the program. Kuehn was named to five All-ACC teams, and competed for the U.S. on five Arnold Palmer Cup teams. She is currently No. 8 in the WAGR, and earlier this year earned low-amateur honors at the LPGA Tour’s Evian Championship in France. Her mother, Brenda Corrie Kuehn, is also an accomplished amateur golfer and competed on two Curtis Cup teams herself.
Catherine Park, 20, of Irvine, Calif., is a rising junior at the University of Southern California, who is one of two Trojans on the 2024 USA Curtis Cup Team. Park shared low-amateur honors with Asterisk Talley and Megan Schofill in the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open, her second appearance in the championship after also qualifying in 2022. She registered her third victory of the 2023-24 collegiate season in the Pac-12 Conference Championship, becoming the seventh Trojan to win that individual title. She finished her sophomore season with a 70.94 stroke average to lead the team. Park was also a finalist for the 2024 Annika Award given to the top collegiate player and named first-team All-American by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association and Golfweek. She represented the U.S. on the victorious U.S. 2024 Arnold Palmer Cup Team. Her mom, Hyang-Soo Seo, earned the first-ever gold medal for the Republic of Korea in the Olympics, achieving the feat in the 1984 Los Angeles Games in archery.
Megan Schofill, 23, of Monticello, Fla., enjoyed the biggest win of her career when she defeated Latanna Stone in the 36-hole final of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. The 2024 Auburn graduate made the cut in the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open Presented by Ally at Lancaster (Pa.) Country Club and tied with Asterisk Talley and Catherine Park for low-amateur honors (T-44). She was a four-time All-Southeastern Conference selection at Auburn and holds the lowest scoring average in program history at 72.01 (minimum 60 rounds). She was also a four-time Academic All-American and first-team All-American selection for the 2022-23 season, and a two-time honorable-mention All-American. Schofill represented the USA in the 2023 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to Auburn, Schofill was a first-team American Junior Golf Association All-American and was a semifinalist in the 2019 Women’s Southern Amateur. She traveled to Wales with the 2021 Curtis Cup team as the first alternate. Schofill is currently No. 19 in WAGR.
Asterisk Talley, 15, of Chowchilla, Calif., is a rising high school sophomore who has enjoyed a remarkable 2024 competitive season. At 15 years, 105 days, Talley was the youngest competitor in this year’s U.S. Women’s Open where she shared low-amateur honors with 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Megan Schofill and University of Southern California standout Catherine Park. Talley started her year by winning the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley, then finished eighth in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, just a few weeks after being one of the 10 girls named to the inaugural U.S. National Junior Team. A few days after attending a national team camp at Atlanta Athletic Club, she traveled to San Antonio, Texas, where she claimed the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball title with partner Sarah Lim. Later in the summer, she made it to the final match of the U.S. Girls’ Junior and U.S. Women’s Amateur, becoming the first player in history to appear in three USGA championship matches in one year. In 2023, she captured the Rolex Girls Junior Championship, and represented her country in the 2023 Junior Solheim Cup in Spain. A year earlier, she reached the Round of 16 in the 2022 U.S. Girls’ Junior at 13 years of age. Her first name means “little star” in Greek.