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.

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His 87 years won’t stop Roberto de Vicenzo teeing it up in the Champions Challenge at this year’s Open Championship, while Seve Ballesteros has refused to allow multiple brain surgeries to scupper his chances of saying a fond farewell to his fans at St Andrews this year.

To describe Jack Nicklaus’ lack of commitment to the event scheduled for the eve of the 150^th anniversary Open Championship as a disappointment is an understatement to say the least.

For a man who had his swansong at St Andrews in 2005, an all-singing, all-dancing affair with his face emblazoned on five pound notes and emotional scenes over the Swilken Bridge, not to take part in the commemorative tribute to both the Open and its champions is sad, but to claim he has ‘no real desire to go there’, as he did at the Masters in April, is downright disrespectful.

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