Ada O’Sullivan feels Curtis Cup buzz can get younger players in the swing

Former GB & Ireland Curtis Cup captain Ada O’Sullivan believes the staging of the latest renewal on Irish soil this weekend can give women’s golf a much-needed boost on these shores.

Dun Laoghaire Golf Club in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, will host the biennial showdown between the women’s amateurs of Great Britain & Ireland and the US, the first time it has been staged in Ireland in 20 years, when Ita Butler led the home nations to a rare victory at Killarney.

American captain Robin Burke’s hot favourites are a team of mostly teenagers spearheaded by women’s amateur world number one Hannah O’Sullivan, with the two oldest members aged just 21.