‘She’s a bit similar to me’: Dame Laura Davies reflects on Charley Hull’s winning Solheim Cup approach

Charley Hull could hold the key for Team Europe this week - (Getty)

As the person with the most Solheim Cup appearances (12) and the most Solheim Cup points (25) in history, you might expect Dame Laura Davies to be rooting for a European whitewash of Team USA when the latest edition of women’s golf’s premier team competition begins in the Netherlands this week. But she’s got the bigger picture in mind.

“I think it will be really close come Sunday,” she says in an exclusive interview with The Independent. “I hope for the galleries and the TV audiences it’s really close.”