Aussie selectors ignore World Amateur 

Rankings: That's why Scot is left out of team

It didn't take Sherlock Holmes to work it out, but the mystery of why Scots-born Karis Davidson (16) is not in the Australian team of five for next week's Astor Trophy match-play team tournament has been solved by logical reasoning, by Colin Farquharson.
Karis, who has lived in Queensland since she emigrated with her parents from Innerleithen in the Tweed Valley eight years ago, is 40th in the world rankings.
This week's Ladies Lake Macquarie Championship winner Shelly Shin is the only Australian above her.
But four Aussie players with world rankings below, some well below, Davidson, have been chosen.
The simple answer is that Golf Australia, the nation's administrative amateur golf body, pays absolutely no attention to the R and A/USGA women's world amateur golfing rankings.
The Aussies operate their own independent ranking system and ignore what the rest of the world is doing ... ostrich/emu with head in sand springs to mind!
A tongue-in-cheek thought. 
If the Australians keep ignoring Karis Davidson's outstanding claims - she finished joint second in the Ladies Lake Macquarie Championship and is the top-ranked Aussie Under-18 girl - she might well be persuaded to accept an invitation to play for GB and I in the 2015 Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe at Malone GC, Belfast and, more important, the 2016 Curtis Cup match against the Americans at Dun Laoghaire GC, Dublin.
The only British players ahead of the Scot in the World Amateur Rankings are Annabel Dimmock (No 18), Bronte Law (No 29) and
Hayley Davis (No 33).
The Ladies Golf Union DOES use the World Rankings and the LGU Order of Merit for team selection. Surely a more sensible approach?

IT AIN'T HALF HOT, MUM!
The temperature in Adelaide, South Australia touched 39 degrees today, which is over 100 on the other scale. It's a heat that not only results in bush fires without anybody lighting them and it burns human skin if exposed to it for too long.
Wearing a hat or cap becomes a necessity when it gets that hot.
The complete GB and I team of Connie Jaffrey, Chloe Williams, Bronte Law, Hayley Davis and Charlotte Thomas, with captain Elaine Farquharson-Black and LGU chairman Trish Wilson, spent a relaxing day after their long flight from the UK.
Under the rules of the competition, so that the host nation does not have an unfair advantage, none of the teams is allowed to begin practising until Friday over the Grange course, designed by Greg Norman, at Adelaide.
On a serious note, the extreme heat might be the toughest "opponent" the title-holders have to beat to hold on to the prestigious trophy a different GB and I line-up (Holly Clyburn, Kelsey MacDonald, Kelly Tidy, Pamela Pretswell, Amy Boulden and captain Tegwen Matthews) won at the last staging of the event - four years ago in June 2011at Fairhaven GC. 
It has certainly never been 39 degrees at that Lancashire venue.
+GB and I's results at Fairhaven:
Beat South Africa 6-1
Beat Canada 4-3
Beat Australia 5-2
Beat New Zealand 4-3

*The NZ team of 2011 included world Nos 1 and 2 female amateurs at the time,  Lydia Ko and Cecilia Cho (who had been No 1)
Both girls have since turned pro, Lydia with outstanding success on the LPGA Tour. Cecilia reverted to South Korean citizenship when she turned pro and plays on that country's lady pro tour without hitting the headlines. 

2011 GB and I's Astor Trophy winners.
 Back row (left to right): Pamela Pretswell, captain Tegwen Matthews, Amy Boulden. Front row (l to r): Kelsey MacDonald, Holly Clyburn, Kelly Tidy. Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency.