DORSET star Georgia Hall has passed over a place in the US Women’s Open in favour of representing GB & Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy in France later this week.

Hall’s stunning win in the British Amateur Championship earlier this month earned her exemption to a second major, which starts at Sebonack in New York on Thursday.

However, the Bournemouth-born 17-year-old will instead try to help GB & Ireland wrest the Vagliano Trophy from Europe at the picturesque Chantilly course, near Paris, on Friday and Saturday.

The fixture clash, combined with a lack of available time to prepare for an impromptu trip to America, is understood to be behind Hall’s decision.

Remedy Oak member Hall, currently Europe’s leading amateur and sixth in the world rankings, will be joined in the GB & Ireland team by Ferndown’s Hayley Davis.

Hall played for GB & Ireland in the inaugural Junior Vagliano Trophy at Royal Porthcawl in June 2011, while Davis, a student at Baylor University in Texas, is set to make her debut in the competition.

Davis lost a titanic struggle to Hall at the 20th hole in the last 32 of the British Amateur Championship at Machynys in South Wales last week.

Hall, the youngest member of the team, played in her first major – the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills in California in April – and is also exempt for the Open at St Andrews in August and the Evian in September.

GB and Ireland team: Amy Boulden (Conwy), Gabriella Cowley (Brocket Hall), Hayley Davis (Ferndown), Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak), Becky Harries (Haverfordwest), Bronte Law (Bramhall), Stephanie Meadow (Royal Portrush), Alexandra Peters (Notts Ladies), Amber Ratcliffe (Royal Cromer).