Oregon golfer Monica Vaughn is named to the U.S. Curtis Cup team

Monica Vaughn of Reedsport, Ore. was one of the eight players selected by the USGA to compete on Team USA in the 2016 Curtis Cup, to be conducted June 10-12 at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club in Enniskerry, Ireland, outside Dublin, featuring the top amateurs from the U.S. and Europe.

Vaughn, 21, who is in her junior year at Arizona State University, was the 2010 PNGA Junior Girls’ Player of the Year, a year in which she won the PNGA Junior Girls’ Amateur, Oregon Women’s Amateur, Oregon Junior Girls’ Amateur and the Oregon Women’s Public Links. She still owns the course record at four different golf courses in Oregon, all shot while still in high school, where she twice won the Oregon State High School Championship (2011, 2013).

While playing at ASU, Vaughn has victories in the 2016 Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge and the 2015 Ping/ASU Invitational. As a sophomore, she finished fifth in the individual competition of the 2015 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship.

The other seven players named to Team USA are: Sierra Brooks, 17, of Sorrento, Fla.; Mariel Galdiano, 17, of Pearl City, Hawaii; Andrea Lee, 17, of Hermosa Beach, Calif.; Mika Liu, 17, of Beverly Hills, Calif; Hannah O’Sullivan, 17, of Chandler, Ariz.; Bailey Tardy, 19, of Peachtree Corners, Ga.; Bethany Wu, 19, of Diamond Bar, Calif.