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Golf: NZ face best at Queen Sirikit Cup in China

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8 May, 2017 04:00 AM3 mins to read

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Carrus Tauranga Open champion Alanna Campbell leads the New Zealand team at the Queen Sirikit Cup in China.

Carrus Tauranga Open champion Alanna Campbell leads the New Zealand team at the Queen Sirikit Cup in China.

Alana Campbell is confident she can guide New Zealand to their first win in the Queen Sirikit Cup since 1999.

The talented 18-year-old Omanu golfer is the senior player in the New Zealand team in China alongside Rose Zheng, 14 from Auckland and Christchurch's Amelia Garvey, 16.

It is the last major event for two-time Carrus Tauranga Open champion Campbell before she starts a four-year scholarship at Iowa State University.

The Queen Sirikit Cup is an annual contest between 14 nations from the Asia Pacific region and is officially known as the Amateur Ladies Asia-Pacific Invitational Team Championship. This year's event will be held this week in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, China with each team's best two scores counting each day.

Campbell said it was one of the biggest events New Zealand Golf sent a team to each year.

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"I played last year in Korea and it was a learning experience-and-a-half. It is a really full-on busy week and I haven't been to a tournament that was that busy," she said.

"You can't prepare yourself for anything like that either in terms of not getting enough sleep for the week and being emotionally drained with new courses, grasses, everything really."

After not performing at her absolute best at previous overseas events this is one where Campbell wants to shine.

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"I haven't gone as well as I would have hoped over the past couple of years so I am really keen to get over there. I have played in Asia enough to know what sort of happens out there and know the course types. I feel this time I can produce some numbers that reflect how I play."

Campbell will have her Tauranga-based coach Jay Carter with her in China as team manager this week.

In terms of on the course and in practice rounds she said it would be beneficial to have him there.

"For all of us it will be good to have someone who has been there and done it and has that edge on course management."

NZ Golf High Performance coach Carter is hopeful the New Zealand team will do well in China.

"We have a young team but the Koreans and Japanese are young and are pretty good. We have some good, strong players at the moment and a few of our girls are in America," he said.

"Amelia Garvey is a powerful player, obviously Alanna is very good and won [Carrus] last week and Rosene won the New Zealand Amateur last year. She also did really well in the New Zealand junior team in Australia last month.

"We have a good chance but it is hard to know until you have seen the course and if it will suit as it is quite different over there."

Korea have enjoyed most success in the Queen Sirikit Cup with 15 wins, Australia have won it eight times and Japan five since the championship began in 1979. New Zealand have won the cup three times in 1984, 1990 and 1999.

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