US teenager Angela Park birdied the final two holes to sneak into the halfway lead on ten under par at the Evian Masters on Friday, but it was 43-year-old Helen Afredsson who made the biggest move with a course record 63.
Park, still seeking her first professional win, posted a second round 68 to edge one [...]

Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the $3.25 million Evian Masters.
The 26-year-old Mexican started with a birdie on the first hole and added six more on the back nine in a bogey-free round in the event co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and the [...]

Swedish Solheim Cup star Maria Hjorth posted a seven-under-par 64 to take a one shot lead after the first round of the BMW Ladies Italian Open.
Hjorth posted eight birdies and one bogey on a hot day at Argentario Golf Resort in Tuscany to lead over European number one Gwladys Nocera from France and Germany’s Martina [...]

World number three Suzann Pettersen secured a five shot victory at the AIB Irish Open, supported by Fáilte Ireland, on Sunday.
The Norwegian shot a final round five-under-par 67 to finish on an 11-under-par 205 total after three rounds at Portmarnock Links in Dublin.
Marianne Skarpnord, also from Norway, was second on six-under-par, which was her [...]

An eagle on the final hole helped New Zealand golfer Lynette Brooky soar up the leaderboard at the women’s Irish Open golf championship today.
Brooky shot a second round 66 to record the lowest round of the tournament so far.
With one round to go, she is one stroke adrift of Norway’s Suzann Pettersen whose back to [...]

GOLF LADIES IRISH OPEN: THE UNPREDICTABILITY of links golf is also its greatest attraction. After all, with some superstars of the women’s game competing in yesterday’s first round of the AIB Ladies Irish Open at Portmarnock Links, who in their right mind would have plucked the name of Federica Piovano from the hat and forecast [...]

IRISH WOMEN’S OPEN: AN INVASION of sorts has taken place for the AIB Ladies Irish Open at Portmarnock Links, even if two of the infiltrators - Norway’s Suzann Pettersen, the world number three, and Maria Hjorth, of Sweden - are familiar faces in that they cut their teeth as touring professionals on this side of [...]

Solheim Cup stars Suzann Pettersen of Norway and Morgan Pressel from the United States officially launched “The Road To The 2011 Solheim Cup” at Killeen Castle in Ireland on Wednesday. Killeen Castle is the venue for the biennial match between the European and American Solheim Cup teams in 2011. Pettersen and Pressel are also part [...]

American teenager Michelle Wie, troubled by a wrist injury for more than a year, will make only her third appearance of the season in this week’s Ladies German Open. It will be the first time the 18-year-old Hawaiian has competed in a full-field Ladies European Tour (LET) event. “They gave me a sponsor’s [...]

England’s Rebecca Hudson birdied the third extra hole of a sudden-death playoff against Anne-Lise Caudal from France to capture the Tenerife Ladies Open at Golf Costa Adeje on Sunday.
Hudson, 29, from Doncaster, began the final round one shot behind Caudal and posted a final round 69 in regulation play to finish on 10-under-par 278 [...]