No less than ten of the world’s top 20 golfers in the World Amateur Golf Rankings will participate in the four-day championship.

The biennial event will be staged at the Mayakoba El Camaleon and Playa Paraíso Golf Club, located on a stretch of Caribbean coastline on Mexico’s northeastern Yucatán Peninsula.

Ireland's Leona Maguire, who recently won the women’s Mark H. McCormack medal for the second time after finishing as the leading amateur golfer for two consecutive years, will be competing.

The 21-year-old also finished tied for 21st when she competed for her country at the Rio Olympic Games.

She is joined on the Ireland team by compatriot and world number five Olivia Mehaffey and promising youngster Annabel Wilson.

The highly rated Spanish duo of Maria Parra Luque and Luna Sobron Galmes are included in their country’s team selection.

United States, who have won the Espirito Santo Trophy a record 13 times, look likely to be among the favourites once more.

The USA have selected a strong trio of Mariel Galdiano, Katelyn Dambaugh and Andrea Lee as they aim to secure the title for the first time since 1998.

Italian Virginia Elena Carta, who finished runner-up to Korean sensation Eun-jeong Seong in the US Women’s Amateur Championship last month and Sweden’s Linnea Strom, a European Junior Ryder Cup team member and twice gold medallist at the European Team Championship in 2013 and 2014, are also players to watch.

Defending champions Australia will be represented by Robyn Choi, Karis Davidson and Hannah Green.

Two nations, Bulgaria and Morocco, are making their first appearances in the Women’s World Amateur Team Championships.

The championship will feature 164 players, in teams of two or three representing 55 nations.

Each team member plays 18-holes of stroke play for four days.

In each round, the total of the two lowest scores from each team constitutes the team score for the round.

The four-day (72-hole) total is the team’s score for the championship.