VAGLIANO TROPHY 2025

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The Vagliano Trophy, the now traditional duel between the European Continent's women's teams against Great Britain and Ireland, has closed this year's edition at the Dutch Royal Hague field with a narrow victory for the Islands team.

This final day of the tournament did not disappoint anyone, and the "island" players ended up winning in exciting individual matches that were decided by details.

Before the always decisive individual duels, the Great Britain and Ireland team made it clear that they had not said their last word and achieved a slight advantage in the Foursomes matches, where they won two, drew one and lost one.

The tie came from the pair formed by Paula Martín and Cayetana Fernández against the Irish Aine Donegan and Beth Coulter, while the other Spanish player in the competition, Carolina López-Chacarra, teamed up with the Frenchwoman Valentine Delon, but they could not beat the English pair Patience Rhodes and Sophia Fullbrook.

Next, in the individual matches, the "island" team staged a comeback, winning five of their eight matches and losing three. Two of the three victories for the Continental Europe team were Spanish, with Paula Martín and Carolina López-Chacarra defeating England's Lottie Woad and Ireland's Beth Coulter respectively, while Cayetana Fernández was unable to overcome Ireland's Aine Donegan.

Advantage of Continental Europe at the start

The Vagliano Trophy closed its first round with the continental team taking an early lead of 7-5.

In the morning Foursomes, equality was the dominant theme: the first three matches reached the 18th hole. The first point went to the Continental Europe team thanks to a solid 5 and 3 victory for Marie Eline Madsen and Emma Dalgaard Bunch against Donegan and Beth Coulter.

Great Britain and Ireland tied the score with a close victory for the world's number one amateur, Lottie Woad, and her partner Nellie Ong, who beat the Spanish pair Paula Martín and Cayetana Fernández in a hard-fought duel.

The other two matches of the morning ended in a draw, with Europe coming from behind in both. One of them featured Spain's Carolina López-Chacarra and France's Valentine Delon, and the other was between France's Sara Brentcheneff and Camille Min-Gaultier.

Later in the afternoon singles matches, Patience Rhodes and Isla McDonald-O'Brien gave Great Britain and Ireland the lead, while Lottie Woad drew with Madsen. However, from then on, Europe took control of the scoreboard, winning four and a half of the remaining five points, allowing them to finish the day with a 7-5 advantage.

Two of the victories came from the performances of Paula Martín and Cayetana Fernández, who defeated the Irish Aine Donegan and Beth Coulter respectively, while the only tie of the day and, therefore, half a point, was achieved by Carolina López-Chacarra against the English Sophia Fullbrook.

Continental Europe says goodbye to its winning streak

The Vagliano Trophy, a veteran competition that debuted in 1959, resumed its usual biennial cadence in this 2025 edition, which had to be cancelled in 2021. A huge competition resumed, very well reflected in the record, with 16 victories for the Continental Europe team and another 16, including this last one, for the Great Britain and Ireland team, in addition to a tie in 1979 that confirms the equality of forces between both sides.

However, the Continental Europe team racked up eight consecutive wins, as Great Britain and Ireland's last victory dated back to 2005, a magnificent streak that has been broken twenty years later.

Bottom line

Great Britain and Ireland 12.5 – Continental Europe 11.5