Huddersfield golfer Nick Marsh has not been selected for the 10-man Great Britain and Ireland team to face the USA in the 2015 Walker Cup match.
The 20-year-old, who represented the GB&I in the St Andrews Trophy in Sweden where he was part of the winning team against Europe last year, has been in the initial 20-strong squad but has missed the cut for the 10-man team to take on the Americans at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club on September 12-13.
GB&I will be aiming to win back the trophy after the USA enjoyed a 17-9 victory in the 2013 match at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, New York.
Nigel Edwards, who will be captaining the GB&I team for the third time, said, “We have selected a talented group of players who compete at the highest levels of amateur golf and, in some cases, have played in Major Championships and Tour events.
“The Walker Cup offers these players a tremendous opportunity to display their abilities and gain invaluable experience of playing in international team competition.
“I know there will be players who are disappointed not to have made the team and it has been a difficult decision to make with such strength in depth in the British and Irish game at the moment but we believe we have selected the best players for the team and are very much looking forward to the match.”
Open Championship Silver Medal winner Jordan Niebrugge is one of five players that have been added to the United States team for the match.
Niebrugge, who pipped Ireland’s Paul Dunne to finish as the leading amateur at St Andrews last month, Scott Harvey, Denny McCarthy, Mike McCoy and teenager Robby Shelton will all represent their country at Royal Lytham and St Annes on September 12 and 13.
The quintet have been added to an American squad that already included Bryson DeChambeau, Beau Hossler, Lee McCoy, Maverick McNealy and Hunter Stewart.
Carin Koch has eight of her Solheim Cup team confirmed after the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open.
The GB&I team: Ashley Chesters (Hawkstone Park, England), Paul Dunne (Greystones, Ireland), Grant Forrest (Craigielaw, Scotland), Sam Horsfield (Davenport, Florida), Jack Hume (Naas, Ireland), Gary Hurley (West Waterford, Ireland), Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie, Scotland), Gavin Moynihan, (The Island, Ireland), Jimmy Mullen (Royal North Devon, England), Cormac Sharvin (Ardglass, Ireland). Reserves: Ewen Ferguson (Bearsden, Scotland), Bradley Moore (Kedleston Park, England). Captain: Nigel Edwards (Whitchurch, Wales).
European skipper Koch already had Suzann Pettersen (Norway), Gwladys Nocera (France), Charley Hull and Melissa Reid (both England) via the qualification system and can now plan ahead with Anna Nordqvist (Sweden), Sandra Gal (Germany) and Carlota Ciganda and Azahara Munoz (both Spain).
The rest of Koch’s 12-strong team, ahead of the meeting with the United States in Germany next month, will be named on Tuesday.
World number 10 Nordqvist will make her fourth Solheim Cup appearance and will be going for a third win, with Munoz - also a two-time winner - making her third appearance.
Gal will make a second Solheim Cup appearance, as will Ciganda.
US captain Juli Inkster has 10 players confirmed: Stacy Lewis, Lexi Thompson, Cristie Kerr, Michelle Wie, Brittany Lincicome, Morgan Pressel, Angela Stanford and Gerina Piller.
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