D-Day has arrived for Huddersfield-based golfer Rochelle Morris.

The 20-year-old from Woodsome Hall is part of the Great Britain & Ireland team who will face the Americans at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club in Ireland from tomorrow through to Sunday.

It’s the women’s amateur equivalent of the Solheim Cup – the men have the Ryder Cup for professionals and Walker Cup for amateurs – and it’s a tremendous achievement to earn selection, especially as Morris qualified by right through the Order of Merit.

Preparation has gone well with coach John Eyre at Woodsome – he’s been coaching her since the age of nine, when they were both at Crosland Heath – and Morris has been out in Ireland since the first of this month.

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“I’m really looking forward to it,” said Morris, a former Yorkshire champion and winner in the Nick Faldo Series.

“It’s a fantastic feeling to be representing Great Britain & Ireland and I can’t wait for the matches now.”

Morris could be teeing off in front of 20,000 golf fans on the course near Dublin, but the plus-three handicap player (that means her standard round is three under par) is just determined and focused.

“I don’t know how nervous I will be, it will just be about adrenaline and excitement and putting everything together – I’m definitely looking forward to it,” she said.

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“While I’ve played a lot of team golf at county, I’ve obviously not played it at international level or been in the foursomes and fourballs with any of my teammates, but I’m happy with my performances both last year and this.

“Tee to green my game is really good and I’m working to improve my short game.”

Morris is the first Huddersfield-born player selected since Nikki Buxton, also from Woodsome Hall.

She will play alongside Maria Dunne (Skerries), Alice Hewson (Berkhamsted), Bronte Law (Bramhall), Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough), Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell), Olivia Mehaffey (Royal County Down) and Charlotte Thomas (Moonah Links, Australia).