And her call-up for Wales is just the latest in a string of golfing accolades collected by the talented three-handicapper.

Twenty-year-old Kirsty has been representing Wales in the European Ladies' Amateur Championships in Sweden.

And that call-up was Kirsty's reward for winning the Welsh Ladies' Closed Championships in May.

At the Stenungsunds Golf Club near Gothenburg, Sweden, Kirsty has been sharing fairways and greens with the best lady amateur players from around the continent.

Unfortunately the Welsh team finished ninth after the 36-hole strokeplay event, meaning that the principality was left in the match-play for the equivalent of a plate competition.

But the experience has been the highlight of Kirsty's career to date.
And she is now hoping to be selected for Wales for the Home Internationals in September.

The road to Stenungsunds started six years ago when Kirsty, having watched her parents Neil and Gillian in action at Nelson Golf Club, decided to give golf a go.

She was soon making an impression at Marsden Heights, and became the ladies' section's lowest-handicapped player for years in the process.

The former Habergham High School and Sixth Form Centre pupil was selected for Lancashire, and there she decided to try and get a golf scholarship in the United States after hearing of the exploits of some of her county team-mates.

She has now completed two years of a four-year scholarship at Ball State University in Indiana, where she studies German each morning and practices golf every afternoon.

As Kirsty explains: "Being in the States has certainly helped my game.
"Playing every day helps a great deal, and we also do a lot on the psychological as well as physical aspects of the game."

Golf in the States also includes six autumn competitions and six in the spring.

They are played at some of the top collegiate courses, as well as other well-known tracks.

And she has played at Crooked Stick, a former venue of the Solheim Cup, as well as winning on both her visits to the Butler University Memorial in her adopted home state of Indiana.

Returning to this country in the early summer, Kirsty really grabbed the headlines with her win in the Welsh Championships, qualifying through her father's nationality.

After 36 holes of strokeplay, she was 10th and reached the matchplay stages.

And then solid putting saw her through to the final, beating former Curtis Cup reserve Sahra Hussain along the way.

In the final she accounted for former winner Steph Evans, and yesterday the two were paired in the foursomes of the first of Wales' matchplay games.

Up against Finland, the Welsh pair reached the turn 1-up and Wales led the match 5-0 at that stage.

Hopefully, that means Kirsty will be in action again today and tomorrow as she builds up more invaluable international experience.

Looking to the future, Kirsty has not decided if a career in the professional games lies ahead.

Just before departing for Sweden she said: "At the moment I am not looking further ahead than the Home Internationals in September.
"Unfortunately, I will be back at University by then but I hope the Welsh team will fly me back to compete.

"The matches are at Wrexham Golf Club and it would be great to represent Wales on home soil.

"I don't know where the future will take me.

"A lot has happened in the last two years and I am sure that will be the same for the next two years.

"After that I will have some decisions to make."