Marshall will spend the next six weeks competing in the United States.

Marshall, a recent graduate of Mount St. Agnes and soon to be a freshman at Wake Forest University on a golf scholarship, leaves Bermuda today to prepare for the first of six tournaments, the Ping Myrtle Beach Junior Classic in South Carolina from June 22-25. She was fifth in last year's event.

The teenager won the women's division of the Bermuda Amateur Stroke Play Championships on the weekend and she will further prepare for the Ping Classic with two days of practice later this week at Pinehurst in North Carolina.

Marshall earned a number five ranking from Golf Digest after her accomplishments in five tournaments last year. She won the North and South Junior Tournament at Pinehurst and the Midwestern in Louisville and finished second in the prestigious US Junior Girls Championship.

The highlight of her 1991 tour was, no doubt, her second-place finish in the US Junior Girls. She was beaten three-and-two in the final by Emilee Klein, the number one-ranked junior girl.

This tournament will be Marshall's final tournament on the circuit and also her last participation in the event as next year she will be too old. As Klein is no longer eligible, Marshall will be one of the favourites.

The tournament will be played at Meridian Hills Country Club in Indianapolis from August 3-8.

After the opening tournament next week, the talented 17-year-old heads to Michigan for the Great Lakes Buick Junior Tournament from June 29 to July 2.

From there she goes to the Rolex Tournament of Champions in Roswell, Georgia, from July 13-17 and then on to the Optimist Junior Worlds (July 20-24) in San Diego, California.

Her fifth tournament is the McDonald's Betsy Rawls Girls National Championship in Wilmington, Delaware, from July 27-30. In last year's Rolex Tournament of Champions in Edmond, Oklahoma, Marshall tied for third.