If a seventh consecutive American victory in the Curtis Cup isn’t an indication that something needs to change for Great Britain and Ireland, I don’t know what is.

While the away side took a slim lead into day two of the event at Essex Country Club in Massachusetts, the US girls turned up armed with a tin of white paint on Saturday to wash away any hopes the GB&I girls had of victory – with a 6-0 drubbing on day two.

Meanwhile, in those 14 years since GB&I’s last victory at Killarney Golf Club, stars of the European scene have passed through the amateur game with bundles of accolades, before bursting onto the professional stage with victories galore.

Anna Nordqvist is the prime example. Just 23-years-old, the Swede already has a major championship victory to her name, having won the McDonald’s LPGA Championship by four strokes in 2009, as well as being the reigning LPGA Tour Champion.

Her professional accolades aside, Nordqvist won the British Amateur Championship in 2008, having already made it to two finals in the event, was a member of the victorious Swedish team at the World Amateur Team Championships, before making the cut at both the 2007 and 2008 Ricoh Women’s British Open, earning the Smyth Salver for low amateur honours in 2008.

Why then, are players such as Nordqvist not being given the chance to shine on the transatlantic stage?

With the US winning every Curtis Cup for 14 years, time is running out for tradition. The format needs to be changed before someone puts Great Britain and Ireland out of its misery by ending the event altogether.

How do you put value on another win for the Americans – they practically expect to win it now.

And, how do you gee up GB&I, when it would appear that the GB&I captains are running out of ways to motivate their players having felt the sharp end of defeat for more than a decade.

The answer is simple. Add Europeans to the mix. After all, it didn’t do any harm to the Ryder Cup…in fact, some would say it did quite the opposite.