GOLFING sensation Georgia Hall rubs shoulders with the world’s best players this week – just 13 months after she was snubbed by Curtis Cup selectors.

Hall is due to tee up in her first major later today after being invited to play in the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills in California.

Ironically, the 16-year-old star was invited to attend the 2012 Curtis Cup trials last March after fellow amateur Charley Hull had dropped out to accept a similar invitation to the first ladies Major of the year.

Despite winning her singles match at the trial session at Nairn Golf Club in Scotland, Hall was overlooked for a starting berth.

Instead, she was named first reserve for the Great Britain and Ireland team for the biannual match against their American amateur counterparts.

Hull, meanwhile, was reinstated in the team that went on to record a 10.5 to 9.5 victory.

Hall was disappointed by the selectors’ decision and told the Daily Echo at the time: “I should have been in the team.”

But Hall was determined to prove the selectors wrong, and added: “I will just have to go and win every tournament I enter for the rest of the season.”

And true to her word, Hall swept all before her with a string of impressive results which saw her finish the year as the European number one.

Hall won the Girls’ British Amateur Championship and reached the semi-finals of the Ladies’ British Amateur Championship.

Among her other victories were the Critchley Salver, Hampshire Rose and Roehampton Gold Cup.

Her remarkable successes lifted her to fourth in the world amateur rankings.

Hall, who is a member of Remedy Oak Golf Club near Horton, began this year where she left off, winning two gold medals at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in January.

Before turning professional later this year, Hall plans to complete a BTEC course in sports science at Oakmead College.