Lewis has now helped her team earn a tie in Spain in 2023 and a streak-snapping home victory this year at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, sweating out a 15½-12½ win to lift the Solheim Cup for the first time since 2017.
GAINESVILLE, Va. — Europe is in a 10-6 hole going into Sunday singles at the Solheim Cup, needing to match the 2012 Ryder Cup’s Miracle at Medinah comeback with the Robbery at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club to keep the Cup for four straight matches. Both captains shared that their plan was to stack their Read more…
GAINESVILLE, Va. — Saturday at the Solheim Cup would have been Karsten Solheim’s 113th birthday. The man, who alongside his wife Louis, was one of the original partners who agreed to a 10-event contract to get the biennial matches started. Their son, John Solheim, remains part of the tournament’s DNA. He threw hats to fans Read more…
GAINESVILLE, Va. — The bet was set on the second tee of Alison Lee and Megan Khang’s Saturday four-ball match at the Solheim Cup. According to Golf Channel, Khang’s looper Jack Fulghum told the American players that if anyone holed out, the caddies would dish out $500. Lee countered immediately saying that they’d have to Read more…
GAINESVILLE, Va. — Europe’s Solheim Cup MVP is only playing one team session this week. Leona Maguire compiled a dominant 7-2-1 record while playing all five sessions over her first two Solheim Cups in 2021 and 2023, but European captain Suzann Pettersen left her on the bench all of Saturday. “It’s always hard to sit Read more…
LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan met with the media on Saturday, US time, to address the shuttle transportation problems from Friday that had more fans in line to get to the Solheim Cup than on the first tee – historically one of the best experiences the sport has to offer.
GAINESVILLE, Va. — Making a Solheim Cup debut after age 30 is a rarity. Sarah Schmelzel, 30, and Lauren Coughlin, 31, are the second and third 30-something American rookies over the past 20 years, joining only Mina Harigae’s debut in 2021 on the shortlist. But this year’s American rookie tandem created a new list of Read more…
GAINESVILLE, Va. — Nelly Korda stood alone. The World No. 1 arrived at the driving range at 6 a.m. Friday ahead of her opening Solheim Cup match, with only the bright lights from the back of the European team’s house illuminating the range. Instead of heading to the American side on the right, where partner Read more…
The LPGA, beyond a statement acknowledging the transportation challenge, did not provide an answer to multiple requests to confirm the timeline of what happened.
GAINESVILLE, Va. — The atmosphere on the first tee to start the Solheim Cup is typically supercharged, excited fans waiting in anticipation as the opening matches between the U.S. and Europe get underway. But on Friday at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, the scene was more subdued, with several of the 2,000 seats surrounding the Read more…
GAINESVILLE, Va. — There is no waiting for this year’s four Solheim Cup rookies to make their debuts. Both U.S. captain Stacy Lewis and European captain Suzann Pettersen are sending their two first-time players out in foursomes Friday morning, with their approaches to pairings arriving at a similar conclusion to get the rookies going early. Read more…
If the US side doesn’t win this week, the Americans could go to the Netherlands in 2026 trying to snap an almost decade-long winless streak with no players potentially having ever won a Solheim Cup.
Thompson’s impact goes beyond her 9-7-7 career record, as multiple captains lauded her for how she sets a tone for the American’s ethos with her team-first attitude.
US Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis felt the game missed a chance to promote itself with the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup being held in the same year in 2023. Her next big suggestion for the two tours to grow the game is to make the Presidents Cup a blended event.
GAINESVILLE, Va. — ÂÂLauren Coughlin, U.S. Solheim Cup rookie, is a dream she had aspired to make come true for more than a year. It was at the 2023 Kroger Queen City Championship, two weeks after she posted a then-best-career finish of T-6 in Canada, where it hit the Virginia resident that the 2024 Solheim Read more…
While the teams have only seen a different nine each at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, every player that came to the media centre on Tuesday (US time) laughed at how much easier getting around the course is compared to the hilly Finca Cortesin nestled among the Estepona Mountains in Andalucia, Spain, a year ago.
The analytics era for the U.S. Solheim Cup team didn’t get off to the smoothest start. Captain Stacy Lewis hired KPMG Performance Insights lead analyst Justin Ray to serve the American team for the 2023 competition against Europe, and then with 25 potential players and captains in a room waiting for a presentation, a flustered Read more…
GAINESVILLE, Va. —  ÂÂThe U.S. Solheim team received some presidential encouragement Monday ahead of the Solheim Cup. Former President Barack Obama surprised the team during their dinner, wishing them good luck ahead of the matches that begin Friday at nearby Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. The Americans will try to win the Cup for Read more…
US Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis announced overnight (Australian time) that she’d chosen Jennifer Kupcho, Sarah Schmelzel and Lexi Thompson with her captain’s picks to complete the 12-player roster.
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