Inside Golf: Olivia Mehaffey bullish as Irish women target Euro glory

Irish women’s golf has gone through many ups and downs over the years but there has nearly always been a big star to keep things ticking over, from a Philomena Garvey or Clarrie Reddan to a Mary McKenna or a Maureen Madill.

Now, it seems, we have a plethora of top players including the world’s No 1 amateur in Leona Maguire. But it doesn’t stop there.

The future looks bright and thanks to the efforts of the ILGU’s High Performance panel, we head into the height of the summer season with high hopes of making a winning impact on the international scene for the first time since McKenna, Madill, Clare Hourihane and Eavan Higgins were joined by the Wickham sisters Phil and Carol in winning the 1983 European Ladies Team Championship at Royal Waterloo.