FOLLOWING a phenomenal start to the season with three titles already under her belt, young Ludlow golfer Emily Price had the world at her feet as she jetted off to the European Team Championships in Norway last weekend.

The 16-year-old, who plays her club golf for Cleobury Mortimer when not on international duty, flew to Oslo on Saturday with ambitions of adding more silverware to her repertoire.

In April, Price became the first girl to win the Scottish Girls’ Open Championship in its inaugural year, just days after claiming victory in both the Whittington Ladies’ Trophy and The Leveret.

And after taking a break from the sport to focus on her exams at Lacon Childe School, Price insists she is raring to show what she can do on the continental stage.

“The start of the season I played three events in the space of two weeks, two one days and then a week event,” said Price, who has ambitions to pursue a golf scholarship in America when she turns 18.

“I played really well in all of them, following on from winter training, so they went really well and I ended up winning all three, which was great.

“Since the beginning of April I took a break out for exams, to do my GCSEs, so I haven’t had any competitions but I have been training the same amount and that has been going well.

“I’m going to Norway for the European Team Championships with the England under-18 squad.

“You do two days of stroke play at the start for an individual event, so I want to shoot the best possible score I can but going on from what I did at the start of the season there’s not many places I can go so I hopefully can try and win it.

“Then into the team event, I just want to do my best for them and have a great team spirit and do the best that we can possibly do.”

Price is one of 100 athletes on the 2016 SSE Next Generation programme, a scheme that identifies the sporting superstars of the future, providing them with financial help and mentoring from elite athletes.

On Tuesday she attended a workshop at The SSE Arena in Belfast, where she received support on a number of issues, including media training, sports nutrition and lifestyle management.

Olympic silver medal-winning diver Leon Taylor was also in attendance to help mentor the athletes and Price said it had been an experience to savour.

“The workshop has been really beneficial and it was great to meet different people, getting to know people in the same situation and I have really learnt a lot,” she said.

“Being on the SSE Next Generation scheme is really beneficial to me because the help they provide for me and my sport really helps with coach funding, competitions and it really opens doors for me to succeed in my sport.”

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