All three golfers had to pull out of this week’s Ladies European Tour event, which is played under floodlights at the Emirates Golf Club, due to their positive test results.
McDonald said she drew on the pressure-filled Solheim Cup experience and put herself in the matchplay mentality where you expect your opponent to make everything.
The Englishwoman’s play over four days at Royal Lytham & St Annes made it easy to forget that she started the week as a 22-year-old LPGA rookie still looking for her first tour win.
The European team has announced that Catriona Matthew of Scotland will serve as captain on home soil for the 2019 European team at the PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles in Perthshire.