O’Sullivan ready for US dream teens

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.

They will be taking on the United States in the biennial amateur ladies event which starts at Formby tomorrow.

And with the Ryder, Walker and Solheim Cups already in European hands, there is a huge incentive for O'Sullivan and her team to make it a grand slam of major transatlantic golf competitions, as well as showing the Americans that youthful exuberance can be countered by grit, determination and skill.