Scottish Open, US Women's Open highlight this weekend in golf.

For many of the world's best male players it's a fortnight of great excitement in Scotland, this week's Scottish Open at the Castle Stuart links on the Moray Firth on the NE coast, next week the Open Championship at Royal Troon on the SW coast.

For the women it's off to California for the US Women's Open in San Martin where Brooke Henderson is considered by many as the favourite coming off two consecutive wins, and she is paired with Lexi Thompson and Lydia Ko for the first two days.

Maude Aimee LeBlanc, Alena Sharp and amateur Naomi Young Ko are the other Canucks in the field.

The lights are out on the PGA Tour this week as the Greensboro Classic has been cancelled due to the devastation caused by flooding in West Virginia.

European Tour Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open leaderboard http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2016/tournamentid=2016052/leaderboard/index.html

It's a breezy day on the beautiful Castle Stuart links and the breeze will be the strongest for the afternoon wave. The yellow gorse is in full bloom and the clubhouse leaders from the morning wave are Chilean veteran Felipe Aguilar with -3 69 and Aussie Scott Hend -3 69. Their scores may well hold up at the end of play tonight.

Only 26 players are under par at present and the scoring average is 74.43.

None of the so called big 3 have chosen to play here, choosing instead to prepare for Troon by playing on various courses in Ireland and Scotland as well as at Royal Troon itself.

More to follow


LPGA Tour US Women's Open leaderboard http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/uswomensopenconductedbytheusga/leaderboard

For the first time ever a Canadian is one of the favourites to win the US Women's Open as Brooke Henderson gets set to tee it up at 2.03 PST this afternoon at the CordeValle Resort.

This is her 4th US Open, she T5 last year and was the best amateur in 2014. She has already won the Women's PGA Championship.

She says she loves the course, it suits her eye, and she can reach most of the par 5's in two which gives her an advantage, she also says the back nine is the more difficult of the two, and patience as is always the case in major championships is of prime importance.

I'll be following it all so join me here, and listen for my reports on TSN1050 on Sunday morning starting at 745am.

Bryan Angus