Paula Creamer is calling for a women’s Masters at Augusta National.

It was a baptism of fire for the Irish Women’s 4k Team Pursuit squad in their debut at the UCI World Track Cycling Championships in Paris yesterday as they finished last of 16 teams in qualifying.

Cork 5-17 Limerick 2-08

Cappamore (Limerick) 2-07 Borrisokane (Tipperary) 0-06

A FITTING end to the Munster championship hurling season in sunny Mallow yesterday, a day stolen from late summer and a game to match.

A ROUSING second-half recovery wasn’t enough to rescue Waterford champions Ballinameela in yesterday’s Munster Club JHC semi-final in Cappamore as their hosts had already done the damage before the break.

Europe moved into a 10-8 lead after Catriona Matthew’s dominant victory followed Cristie Kerr’s withdrawal on the final day of the Solheim Cup at Killeen Castle.

Europe and the United States will go into the final day of the 12th Solheim Cup all square following a fightback by the Americans in today’s afternoon session.

BLUE was the colour for Europe at Killeen Castle yesterday — and pacesetter Suzann Pettersen saw more than enough to fuel her belief that the home team can win the Solheim Cup for the first time in four attempts.

Europe built a one-point lead over the United States on the first day of the 12th Solheim Cup at Killeen Castle in Ireland.

SO far it’s been all cuddles at the Castle – this morning the Solheim Cup becomes more like the Ryder Cup’s famous War on the Shore.

A YOUNG Irish woman has described how she and her friends were lucky to escape serious harm when freak weather conditions caused a Thai plane to crash land, injuring passengers and killing the pilot.

THREE Irish women last night told how they climbed through mangled wreckage suffering only cuts and bruises after the plane they were on crashed in Thailand.

FOLLOWING the accidental death in Limerick of crime boss Philip Collopy, another known and feared gunman from O’Malley Park has been found dead in London from a suspected heroin overdose.

Ji-Yai Shin finished off a successful season today by winning the ADT Championship in West Palm Beach, Florida.

A MAN who fled Limerick after he survived 14 bullet wounds in a machinegun attack, was found with a false passport hours after he arrived back in the city from Britain, a court heard.

Mexico’s Lorena Ochoa underlined her status as the world number one with a super 66 that earned the first round lead in the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore.

Paula Creamer reeled off four birdies in her last five holes to win the Fields Open in Hawaii by one stroke ahead of South Korea’s Jeong Jang.

Scotland’s Catriona Matthew failed to make it into the final day after a disappointing third-round 79 at the ADT Championship at Trump International, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Paula Creamer captured her fourth career title on Sunday by rolling to an eight-shot triumph at the LPGA Tournament of Champions.

England’s Karen Stupples continued her return to form following the arrival of her son, Logan, in April with a closing 69 for six under par in the Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions in Alabama.

American Paula Creamer retained a firm grip on the Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions as she stretched her lead to six shots with a round to play in Mobile, Alabama.

America’s golfers followed last week’s successful defence of the amateur Walker Cup with a brilliant display to keep hold of the Solheim Cup at Halmstad in Sweden today.

Two great escapes and a moment of huge relief today kept alive Europe’s hopes of winning back the Solheim Cup in Sweden.

For the first time since 1998 the United States lead Europe after the first day of the Solheim Cup – but not by anything like the margin they had hoped for at Halmstad in Sweden.

Holders America had the chance to pull well clear of Europe on the opening day of the Solheim Cup at Halmstad in Sweden.

Lorena Ochoa produced a superb seven-under-par 64 to go four strokes clear going into the final round of the Canadian Women’s Open.

Korea’s Young Kim overcame a pair of bogeys in the middle of her round with a strong finish to win the €959,000 Corning Classic on Sunday and record the first LPGA title of her career.

Beth Bader’s second sub-70 round has her in a very unfamiliar position.

There is a Sorenstam at the top of the leaderboard at the Corning Classic, but not the one you would expect.

Scotland’s Catriona Matthew was very much in contention as two of the new stars of women’s golf – Lorena Ochoa and Paula Creamer – shared the lead on four-under-par 140 at the halfway stage of the Kraft Nabisco Championship today at Mission Hills Country Club in California.

ANTI-BIOTIC resistant MRSA is present in most hospital isolation rooms, according to a study on the potentially fatal virus.

Annika Sorenstam struggled but nevertheless is in good shape in her quest for a sixth victory at the Samsung World Championship.

As darkness fell on the field, Se Ri Pak could be seen rising on the leaderboard at the Jamie Farr Classic.

Brittany Lincicome picked up her first LPGA title when she comfortably defeated fellow-American Juli Inkster by 3 & 2 to claim the HSBC Women’s World Matchplay Championship at Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, New Jersey.

Juli Inkster and Brittany Lincicome were set face off in an all-American final at the HSBC Women’s World Matchplay Championship at Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, New Jersey.

Paula Creamer did not have the start she hoped for at the site of her historic first triumph, the Sybase Classic.

Annika Sorenstam shot a two-over-par 73 but still defended her third title of the season with a one-shot victory at the John Q Hammons Hotel Classic in Oklahoma.

EUROPE’S hopes of a first win away from home disappeared as America regained the Solheim Cup at Crooked Stick in Carmel, Indiana.

World number one Annika Sorenstam launched the main European attack on American youngsters Paula Creamer and Christina Kim after a second round 66 in the Evian Masters in France yesterday.

Wendy Ward claimed her first LPGA Tour victory in four years at the Takefuji Classic in Las Vegas.

AMERICAN Meg Mallon celebrated Independence Day in style, coming from three behind at the start of the day to clinch her second US Women’s Open crown by two shots at the Orchards Golf Club on Sunday.

A taxi driver who stashed cannabis worth €2.75m in a ditch behind his home has been jailed for six years by Judge Kevin Haugh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.