ROME — Exactly half a century of watching Ryder Cups live and from a distance has provoked a range of emotions. Initially, there was the delight 13-year-old me felt as I took in the 1973 version at Muirfield. For someone that age to see the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper Read more…
For the third time in succession (after Europe’s narrow wins in 2019 and 2021), the Solheim Cup provided the sort of excitement that puts the recently predictable and rather pedestrian Ryder Cup to shame.
The American and European teams really do have all to play for to settle a struggle that has morphed from a US rout into a closely fought battle that could go either way.
CASERAS, Spain — The latest Charley Hull sighting here at the 18th Solheim Cup seemed to indicate that the 27-year-old World No. 8 (second only to No. 5 Celine Boutier on the European team) would make an appearance in the second series four-balls. While eight of her teammates were busily contesting the second series of Read more…
With just more than 28 percent of the 28 games completed, maybe the only thing we know for sure is that the sides are, as many suspected, closely matched.
CASERAS, Spain — To be fair, she arrived on the first tee in time to give her partner, Emily Kristine Pedersen some encouragement before the Dane hit Europe’s first shot in Game 4 of the 18th Solheim Cup. But she certainly wasn’t early. Let’s just say Charley Hull was fashionably late, to a point where Read more…
CASERAS, Spain — She was sitting quietly, as this unassuming soul tends to do, at the back of the Solheim Cup media center focused on the pre-match interviews here at Finca Cortesin. Which is ironic. Because Mickey Walker, Europe’s captain in the first four editions of the biennial encounter with the United States (1990-92-94-96), is Read more…
Weather is more than likely to play a role in the type of golf asked for this week. In particular, the wind can gust erratically due to course’s proximity to the Mediterranean Sea and the nearby Gibraltar Strait.
CASERAS, Spain — As a Solheim Cup player, Suzann Pettersen brought her own distinctive level of drive and intensity to the nine European teams she was a part of. The Norwegian remains the only player from either side in the biennial contest to unwittingly utter a four-letter curse word live on national television, a feat Read more…
More than even the major championships, the biennial contest between Europe and the United States takes the game born in Scotland into the hearts and minds of those who elsewhere go about their business blissfully ignorant of all things golf.
Bucking the normal tediousness that typically tends to mark pre-match press conferences at team contests, the US Solheim Cup captain managed to be both thought-provoking and interesting during a 20-minute media session.
CASERAS, Spain — U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis summarized what could surely be transformed into a stirring speech to her players, one designed to get the blood flowing and the brains buzzing. Asked if there was a special message or theme she would like to convey to her team, the former Women’s British Open champion Read more…
The 28-year-old Floridian has not played anything like her best in 2023. In fact, she had been a lot closer to her worst, a depressing state of affairs for a player good enough to win a major title while still a teenager.
Catriona Matthew, skipper for the victorious European teams in 2019 and 2021, explains what practices are really like, how to manage expectations and making tough decisions.
At the end of a week in which just about every conversation and scrap of speculation revolved around the upcoming Ryder Cup, the winner of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth turned out to be someone who will never play for either side in the biennial trans-Atlantic tussle.
VIRGINIA WATER, England — Having just signed for a closing 72 and a five-under-par total of 283 for the week, Justin Rose was well aware he was not going to win the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. But, no matter, at the end of a week in which he “hasn’t wasted any putts, for sure,” Read more…
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