Rookie In-bee Park and Pat Hurst carded five-under opening rounds on Thursday to share a two-stroke lead at the Longs Drugs Challenge.

America’s women golfers retained the Solheim Cup with a storming singles display 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.

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.

Holders America made the start they were hoping for in the Solheim Cup in Sweden today – and Europe’s players had only themselves to blame for a large part of it.

Nine years after they first played together against the Americans, Scot Catriona Matthew will again partner Annika Sorenstam when the Solheim Cup starts in Sweden tomorrow.

Swedes Annika Sorenstam and Sophie Gustafson kept the European flag flying as they advanced to today’s quarter-finals of the HSBC Women’s World Matchplay Championship at Hamilton Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey.

World number one Annika Sorenstam beat American Pat Hurst 70-74 in an 18-hole play-off today to win her third US Women’s Open at Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.

World number one Annika Sorenstam and American Pat Hurst face an 18-hole play-off for the US Women’s Open title today after they finished tied on even par 284 after a marathon final day at Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.

Britain‘s Laura Davies and Karen Stupples made the cut as the storm-hit McDonald’s LPGA Championship finally reached the halfway stage at Bulle Rock in Maryland.

Laura Davies admitted she was “totally gutted” when a long delay for stormy weather left her facing the prospect of having to complete her second round of the McDonald’s LPGA Championship tomorrow morning.

Laura Davies finally made a cut on the American LPGA Tour this season at the Michelob ULTRA Open in Virginia.

American Cristie Kerr claimed her seventh title on the LPGA Tour with a charging final round of 67 at the Franklin American Mortgage Championship in Nashville, Tennessee.

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

EUROPE reeled in a rampant American side with a stunning comeback and claimed the opening series of foursomes 3-1 in the Solheim Cup at Crooked Stick in Carmel, Indiana, yesterday.

England’s Laura Davies fired a course-record nine-under-par 62 and is one shot behind leaders Annika Sorenstam and Juli Inkster at the ShopRite LPGA Classic.