The first Women’s British Open, then named the Ladies’ British Open, was the flagship event of the Ladies’ Golf Union and was played at Fulford in Yorkshire.

For months, Veronica Felibert was just another LPGA Tour rookie looking to find her way among the best players in the world.

The West team representing the United States outshot a world-class field of PGA and LPGA stars to capture the fifth annual Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation Challenge title.

With the Open Championship at Royal Lytham been and gone, all eyes have focused to the next golfing major on these shores as the turn of the world’s best women golfers to contest their own Open at the home of one of the sport’s most historic venues, here on Merseyside.