HAMPSHIRE golfing starlet Katie Thompson has been called up by England for one of the first of the big junior international events of 2005.

The 13-year-old Corhampton prodigy is in a 12-strong training squad for the Scottish Under-16 Championship at St Leonard's in April.

Twice a winner of the National Wee Wonders title, Katie, now 13 and already 5ft 6in, continued her golfing development through 2004 when she became the youngest player to break into the full Hampshire team.

She did it on the back of reaching the quarter-finals of the County Championship for the second year running, and when she broke into the Hampshire team, she helped them reach the finals of the English County Championship.

Katie, who had a hole in one at her former club Marriott Meon Valley when she was only nine, moves up into the national under-16 squad from the Select South East group.

Another member of the Hampshire team in 2004 has made her European Tour debut.

Natalia Booth from New Milton got a late call into the Samsung Ladies' Masters in Singapore but the youngster from the Brokenhurst Manor Club found the going tough and missed the cut after shooting rounds of 77 and 82.

She was one of two former Hampshire champions in the field. The other, Kirsty Taylor from Sandford Springs, also tumbled out at the halfway stage after shooting 84 and 72.

The tournament was won by Korea's Ba Bae Song.