England fell out of the running for the Women’s World Cup with a nightmare start to the foursomes at Sun City in South Africa today.

Mhairi McKay and Janice Moodie believe it is important for Scotland to continue hosting the Ladies European Tour in order to help the growth of the women’s game in their homeland.

The tail-end of Hurricane Henriette caused a four-and-a-half hour delay at the £600,000 LPGA NW Arkansas Championship and left half the field unable to complete their opening rounds.

Scotland’s Mhairi McKay claimed a share of second place as Mexico’s Lorena Ochoa again underlined her dominance of the women’s game with victory at the Safeway Classic in Oregon.

Na On Min, an 18-year-old South Korean rookie, was the shock third round leader in the McDonald’s LPGA Championship after she shot a magnificent seven-under-par 65 at Bulle R

Norway’s Suzann Pettersen grabbed the lead with a super 67 and Scots Mhairi McKay and Catriona Matthew are also well in the hunt after at the halfway stage of the McDonald’s LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock in Maryland.

Britain’s Laura Davies continued her season’s great run of form with a four-under-par 68 that left her just a shot off the lead after the first round of the women’s major, the McDonald’s LPGA Championship in Maryland.

Hee-Won Han birdied the final two holes of regulation play to force a play-off with fellow Korean Meena Lee, then won on the fourth extra hole to claim the LPGA Corning Classic in New York.

EUROPE’S women golfers brilliantly won back the Solheim Cup in Sweden yesterday - and wasted little time doing it.

Scottish pair Janice Moodie and Catriona Matthew, winning Curtis Cup team-mates nine years ago, took Europe nearer a third Solheim Cup victory in Sweden this evening.

ANNIKA SORENSTAM, back where she belongs on the LPGA Tour following her brief flirtation with the men a fortnight ago, is in prime form for this week’s McDonald’s LPGA Championship.

Scotland’s Mhairi McKay scored her first professional victory as a disappointed Laura Davies had to settle for second best in the AAMI Australian Open at Terrey Hills near Sydney today.

JULI INKSTER fired a closing 66 to win her second US Women's Open title by two shots from Sweden's world number one Annika Sorenstam on Sunday.

Britain’s Janice Moodie moved into joint sixth place with a 71, but Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam claimed a two-shot lead with a 69 after three rounds of the US Women’s Open at Prairie Dunes in Kansas.

Britain’s Catriona Matthew was one of only half a dozen players to break par as she continued her record as a US Women’s Open form horse today at Prairie Dunes in Kansas.