Ladies Masters champ Su Oh she will tee it up for the first time alongside local Lydia Ko and fellow teenage star Charley Hull when the New Zealand Women’s Open gets underway on Friday.

Hull is only 18 but is effectively the senior player in the marque group playing at Clearwater Golf Course.

The trio could be regarded as the future of women’s golf – but in most respects they’ve already arrived.

Ko is the world No.1, England’s Hull the leading money winner on the Ladies European Tour in 2014 and Australian Oh the winner of the Ladies Masters on the Gold Coast earlier this month in only her second professional tournament.

Ko and Hull played together at Clearwater last year, but for Oh, playing alongside Ko is something that she has been looking forward to for some time.

“She is the world’s best,” Oh said.

“I am looking forward to playing with her. I have seen her playing, but not close up. It will be good to see what she does and compare where my game is at. I’m also playing with Charley tomorrow. It’s a young group. It will be fun.”

Oh played the New Zealand Open at Clearwater two years ago as a 16-year-old amateur and finished in a tie for ninth and showed then that she was able to handle the tough conditions that Clearwater can throw up.

“I know it is going to be windy. I don’t mind playing in the wind, it is a real challenge,” Oh said.

“If I play well in the wind I feel like I have really accomplished something.

“I think two years ago it was wind and rain together. Hopefully we will only have one and not both together. I would be happy with that.”

Ko and Oh have both been the world’s No.1 ranked amateur player.