For immediate release: 17/08/26

England Golf names Senior Women’s teams for Euros and Home Internationals

17 August 2026

England Golf is pleased to name its Senior Women’s teams for both the upcoming European Senior Women’s Team Championship and Senior Women’s & Men’s Home Internationals.

The teams will be captained by England Golf Hall of Famer, Janet Melville, as they look to emulate their European success of 2025, and alongside the men, look to regain the Home Internationals title after Ireland’s impressive final-day comeback to win it in 2025.

Julia Brook, Emma Brown, Sally Shayler, Kerry Smith, Anne Wheble and Tracey Williamson are in the six-player team for the European Senior Women’s Team Championship at BlackSeaRama Golf Resort & Villas, Bulgaria, from 1-5 September.

Brook, Shayler, Smith, Wheble and Williamson will be joined by Sophie Beardsall and Elaine Ratcliffe for the Home Internationals at Royal St David’s Golf Club, Wales, from 15-17 September.

Find out about each of the players below.

Sophie Beardsall (Greetham Valley, Lincolnshire)
- 3rd-place finish at 2026 Scottish Senior Women’s Open
- Top-5 finish in 2025 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- Top-5 finish in stroke play stages of 2025 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Won gold medal at 2025 Island Games in Orkney
- Top-15 finish at 2026 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- Represented England at 2025 Home Internationals

Julia Brook (Walton Heath, Surrey)
- 3rd-place finish at 2025 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- 4th-place finish at 2026 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- Top-5 finish at 2025 Scottish Senior Women’s Open
- Top-10 finish at 2026 and 2025 R&A Senior Women’s Amateur
- Represented England at 2025 Home Internationals
- Part of the winning team at the 2025 European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship

Emma Brown (Malton & Norton, Yorkshire)
- 2nd-place at 2026 R&A Senior Women’s Amateur
- 3rd-place finish at 2025 R&A Senior Women’s Amateur
- Reached semi-finals of 2025 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Won the 2025 England Senior Women’s Order of Merit
- Winner of the Northern Counties Veteran Ladies’ Golf Association Championship
- Winner of Yorkshire Ladies Championship
- Represented England at last three Senior Women’s & Men’s Home Internationals
- Previous winner of British Ladies Amateur, European Ladies Amateur, English Women’s Stroke Play and Scottish Women’s Stroke Play
- Represented GB&I in three Curtis Cups (2000-2004)

Elaine Ratcliffe (Essendon, Hertfordshire)
- Winner of the 2026 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Top-10 finish at 2026 R&A Senior Women’s Amateur
- Winner of the 1998 English Women’s Amateur
- Captained GB&I in Curtis Cup twice (2021, 2022) and played in it twice (1996, 1998)

Sally Shayler (The Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire)
- 4th-place finish at 2026 Scottish Senior Women’s Open
- Finished 1st in the stroke play stages at the 2025 and 2026 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Top-10 finish at 2026 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play and 2026 Belgian International Senior Championship
- Won back-to-back Welsh Women’s Open Senior Championships (2024 and 2025), and tied-1st in 2026 before missing out in a four-way play-off
- Reached quarter-finals of 2025 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Represented England at European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship and Senior Women’s & Men’s Home Internationals in 2023, 2024 and 2025
- Quarter-finalist at the 2026 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Tied-1st at 2026 Italian Senior Women’s Open Championship before missing out in a play-off
- Part of the winning team at the 2025 European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship

Kerry Smith (Waterlooville, Hampshire)
- 3rd-place at 2026 R&A Senior Women’s Amateur
- Winner of 2024 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- Winner of 2023 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- 2nd-place finish at 2026 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- Runner-up at 2026 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Represented England at European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship and Senior Women’s & Men’s Home Internationals in 2024, 2023 and 2022
- Top-5 finish at 2025 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- Part of the winning team at the 2025 European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship

Anne Wheble (Dartford, Kent)
- Winner of the 2025 English Senior Women’s County Champion of Champions
- Semi-finalist at the 2026 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Top-20 finish at 2026 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play

Tracey Williamson (Sheringham, Norfolk)
- Semi-finalist at the 2026 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Top-5 finish at 2026 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- Winner of 2021 English Senior Women’s Stroke Play
- Runner-up in 2022 English Senior Women’s Amateur
- Top-15 finish at 2025 R&A Senior Women’s Amateur
- Represented England at European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship and Senior Women’s & Men’s Home Internationals in 2024, 2023 and 2022
- Winner of 2026 Norfolk Ladies County Championship
- Part of the winning team at the 2025 European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship

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