GREAT BRITAIN & Ireland Curtis Cup captain, Monkstown’s Ada O’Sullivan, is planning to use the spectre of playing against teenage sensation Michelle Wie to motivate her eight-member squad.

IRELAND'S newest Curtis Cup player, Claire Coughlan, finished second in the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Amateur Championship at Royal Troon 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.

Great Britain and Ireland are relishing the challenge of facing the United States, and especially their 13-year-old Michelle Wie, in the Curtis Cup at Formby in June.

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.

GARY WOLSTENHOLME and Michael Skelton, the oldest and youngest members of the Britain and Ireland team, have been paired together for the opening game of the Walker Cup against America at Ganton in Yorkshire today.

Ireland and Great Britain today staved off an amazing last-ditch fightback by the Continent of Europe at Co Louth to win the Vagliano trophy for the first time for a decade.

IRELAND has not had a Ladies British Open Amateur Golf Champion for 18 years since Lilian Behan triumphed at Ganton — and they will have to wait at least another 12 months before ending that long drought after all three of their qualifiers were knocked out at Lindrick, Yorkshire, yesterday.

GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland carded the equal-best score of the day to jump eight places up the leaderboard in the women’s World Amateur Team Golf Championship in the sweltering heat of Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

ADA O’SULLIVAN was happier with the second day performance of her Great Britain and Ireland side in the World Amateur ladies team championships in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

GREAT Britain and Ireland were threatening an amazing comeback in their bid to regain the Curtis Cup from the USA at Fox Chapel, Pittsburgh.

Ireland and Great Britain were slow off the blocks today in their bid to regain the Curtis Cup from the United States in Pittsburgh.