HUDDERSFIELD Golf Club have a posse of teenage female talent all ready to mark their mark on the ladies golf scene.

Leading the way are 16-year-old Rochelle Morris and 15-year-old Megan Lockett who last weekend reached the semi and quarter-finals respectively of the Yorkshire Ladies Championship at Pannal.

Morris, who recently won the Faldo Series UK Championship at Moortown, has benefited from the excellent coaching of Woodsome’s John Eyre since taking up the sport as an eight-year-old, as is now down to a handicap of 1.

She is currently training with Yorkshire Ladies first team for whom she has been picked to make her debut next month, is on the England ASSE training programme, and can already boast a terrific list of honours, including winning the Huddersfield, Halifax Ladies title last year.

She has represented and captained Yorkshire’s juniors and the Senior Seconds, has been a reserve for England’s Under 16s and broke the course record at Crosland Heath last year.

Her immediate goal is to represent England at Under 18 level, and eventually hopes to turn professional and play on tour.

Lockett, daughter of former Fixby assistant and now club professional at Cleckheaton Warren Lockett, was runner-up to Morris in last year’s Huddersfield final and was also runner-up in the Bradford Ladies Matchplay Championship in 2011.

Last year also marked appearances for the Yorkshire Juniors and for Yorkshire Ladies Seconds, while she finished third in the Welsh Girls Strokeplay, and for the last two years has represented Wales in the Scottish Under 16 Open Strokeplay.

She has a current handicap of five (which she is aiming to reduce to three this year) and is hoping to represent Wales at Under 18 level.

Melissa Wood is another five-handicap golfer who reached the Matchplay stages of the Yorkshire Ladies Championship, and who has also played for Yorkshire’s Junior and Ladies Second team.

She is also a member of Huddersfield’s Ladies scratch team and has ambitions to one day turn professional.

Hannah Holden is another 16-year-old five-handicapper who took up the sport at the age of 8, and is now in the Yorkshire Girls elite squad.

She has represented the County of many occasions, playing in the Second team last year and made the cut last year in the English Girls Under 18 Championship, and this year is planning to get down to a handicap of two.

Hannah’s younger sister Georgia, at just 13, is already down to a 16 handicap. She represented the county in the junior jamboree last year and this year her goal is single figures.

Harriet Richardson has only been playing golf for three years, but in 2011 recorded the best nett in the Northern Girls Championship and was runner-up in the Shirley Guest Trophy at the Yorkshire Girls Autumn meeting.

The 16-year-old Richardson won the most reduced handicap award at Huddersfield in both 2009 and 2010 and aims to reduce it even further this year.

Amelia Covell, from Fenay Bridge, is another superb 16-year-old prospect, who won the Kilburn Trophy last year, helping Yorkshire to victory in the Scratch Team award and Handicap Nett prize in the Northern English Girls Championships at Durham City.

Having taken up the game as a seven-year-old, Covell is now down to a handicap of 3.

Two more budding teenage prospects are Rhian Sampson and Simone Hakami, who are both students at Crossley Heath school. Sampson currently has a handicap of 25 and Hakami is on track to gain her first handicap this summer.

With so much young talent at Fixby now, the club’s Ladies scratch team promises to be a very formidable outfit for years to come.