I’M the best, I haven’t played yet! A quote by Muhammad Ali on the game of golf.

Unfortunately I can’t even say that, as I did try to learn golf many years ago, let me add, without one ounce of success. Being a total left-hander is difficult for the other side, the right-handers, to understand and appreciate the problems we corrie-fisters have.

To be honest I am lucky to have come this far relatively unscathed when you hear about some of the “treatments” once used to cure the 10% of the population of being left-handed.

So back to golf. Having acquired a left-handed club I enrolled in a golf school to learn the basics, before, in my own mind, going on to greatness, I mean how difficult could it be!

The reality was so much more different. The instructor could not grasp the fact that it was totally alien to me as he tried in vain to get me to play right-handed and I gave up the dream.

However, many women go on to play golf, professionally, for recreational reasons and also as a networking tool to help them with their business, yet we are still outnumbered in terms of male participation.

On Tuesday June 6 it is Women’s Golf Day and SWiS will be marking this innovative campaign in partnership with Loch Lomond Golf Club along with several notable females from golf, sport and business world.

Women’s Golf Day is a four-hour experience which happens globally.

Our event will bring together a mixture of skills, from professional golfer Kylie Walker to long term golfer Belle Robertson, who has garnered many accolades during her long amateur career.

From British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, Scottish Ladies Close Amateur Golf Championship seven times, as well as winning the British Stroke Play Championships three times.

A pleasant day is in order for us all, and our hope is that we can build on this event to encourage more women to play golf for whatever reason.

There are many clubs up and down Scotland who are also offering special events for women on June 6, check out your local club and give it a go, even if like me your first experience was not the best.

I WAS upset to learn that Kim Little, currently playing with Arsenal, had ruptured her anterior cruciate knee ligament and is set to miss Scotland’s participation in Euro 2017.

It is also a blow to the team as the build-up to the Euros is well underway with a few friendlies on the cards, one tonight at Falkirk Stadium against Romania.

Apart from the change to the dynamics of the team, this is a huge blow to Kim herself.

Playing football as a youngster, Kim clearly stood out for her knowledge, skill and passion and she is one of the few Scots who have made a full-time career out of football.

I remember Kim as a youngster, around 14 years of age, playing in the Scottish Cup Final at St Johnstone’s home ground of McDiarmid Park in Perth.

Radio Scotland were covering the game with Gordon Smith on the mike. Being asked by the studio to hand back, Gordon told them to hold on as he had just witnessed the female Maradona, in the form of a young Kim Little!

Kim has gone on to great things and played all over the World, named BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year in 2016 as well as being the first recipient of the PFA Women’s Players’ Player of the Year award.

Whilst the impact on the team can’t be underestimated, it is the impact on Kim herself that really tugs at the heartstrings.

These tournaments don’t come around every year and qualification for the next big event, the World Cup, which will be under the expert eye of new coach Shelley Kerr, will be a much more difficult ask.

To be in for the running of the World Cup finals you have to win the group, as only one team go forward, unlike the Euros which has increased the numbers of teams in the final to 24 allowing two from each group to qualify.

I hope a speedy recovery is on the cards for Kim and that she is not a bystander for too long.