Davies suffers nightmare round

Britain’s Laura Davies suffered one of the cruellest days of her career today when she shot an 81 and dropped right out of contention at the ADT Tour Players’ Championship at West Palm Beach in Florida.

While Annika Sorenstam boosted her hopes of retaining the title with a 67 for five under par and a three shot lead, Davies fell from joint overnight leader to 12 shots off the pace.