Team B consists of England international Amber Ratcliffe, with girl international Olivia Winning and fellow member of the England Performance U18 squad, Annabel Dimmock.
The Vilmorin Cup is the nations' team trophy and is played over the two stroke play rounds of the championship, which decide the players to go forward to the matchplay knockouts. The championship is contested by the cream of Europe's U21 amateurs.
The players:
Gabriella Cowley, 16, (Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire) was in the winning England teams at last year's girls' and ladies' Home Internationals. She is the Scottish U16 champion and a past English U15 titleholder. She was in the winning Essex team at the 2012 County Finals.
Bronte Law, 17, (Bramhall, Cheshire) was a member of the GB&I team which won the Curtis Cup in 2012 for the first time in 16 years. She qualified for last season's Women's British Open and successfully made the cut, eventually finishing in a share of 33rd place. She represented Europe in the Junior Ryder Cup and was runner-up in last year's French Lady Junior Championship.
Alex Peters, 19, (Notts Ladies') is the English women's stroke play champion and, like Gabriella and Bronte, was in England's successful team at the women's Home Internationals. Last season she also won the Independent Schools' championship, the Nottinghamshire ladies' title and shared the Porters Park Centenary Cup. She represented England in the South American amateur early this year.
Annabel Dimmock, 16, (Wentworth, Surrey) enjoyed a successful run on this year's Orange Blossom Tour in Florida, reaching the quarter finals of the Jones Doherty Championship and finishing in the top 20 at the Harder Hall Invitational. Last year she was fifth in the English girls' championship and won the London Foursomes.
Amber Ratcliffe,17, (Royal Cromer) is the England Golf East Region women's champion and was a member of the winning England teams at the girls' and ladies' Home Internationals. She has twice won the English schools' U16 championship.
Olivia Winning, 18 (Rotherham) joined Amber in England's team at the girls' Home Internationals. Also last year, she won the Pleasington Putter and was runner-up in another prestigious scratch event, the Astor Salver. She was also second in the Fairhaven Trophy.
Notes for Readers:- England Golf is the governing body for amateur golf in England.
England Golf was formed on 1st January 2012 following the merger of the English Golf Union Ltd. and the English Women's Golf Association and is one of the largest sports governing bodies in England looking after the interests of over 1,900 golf clubs and 770,000 men and women club members.
Responsible for the training of the country's top amateur golfers, England Golf also organises all the major English amateur championships. England Golf works to actively encourage new golfers and increase the continued interest and participation in golf through its golf development initiative Get into Golf'.
England Golf is a member of The England Golf Partnership (EGP) together with the PGA and supported by the Golf Foundation and Sport England. Their Whole Sport Plan for golf identifies how England will achieve its vision of becoming The Leading Golf Nation in the World by 2020' from grass roots right through to elite level.
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