THIS is a huge week for golf in Ireland and Britain with at least four major tournaments down for decision.

CLAIRE COUGHLAN, runner-up in the British Ladies Open matchplay championship at Littlestone in Kent in June, bids to go one better in the strokeplay event which gets underway at Nairn today in the north of Scotland.

Monkstown’s Ada O’Sullivan wants the Great Britain and Ireland team to get back to winning ways in the prestigious Vagliano Trophy against Europe this weekend. Declan Colley reports.

Cork's Claire Coughlan saved her best for last in the British Ladies Open strokeplay championship at Alwoodley, Leeds yesterday.

Marion Riordan stepped up a gear to become the top Irish golfer at the halfway stage of the British Ladies Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship at Alwoodley yesterday.

CORK’S Claire Coughlan will be the 12th Irish golfer to play in the Curtis Cup when she lines out for Britain & Ireland against the United States at Formby on June 12 and 13.

CLAIRE COUGHLAN, the heroine of Ireland’s magnificent victory in the Home International Championship at Cruden Bay last month, is a shock omission from the Curtis Cup elite squad announced yesterday.

ON a day when overseas players dominated at Shannon, Sophie Walker from Lincolnshire is poised to add the European Ladies Amateur Strokeplay title to the English Championship won recently.