To win a third straight Solheim Cup, the United States team must handle the pressure of playing on the road and a team not as familiar with the perils of international team matchplay compared to past years.
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.
The teams for the 15th edition of the Solheim Cup matches will both reflect fresh blood and a fresh start when the United States and Europe line up at Des Moines Country Club from August 18-20.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Which is why Paula Creamer will be attempting to Monday qualify into the event in a longshot effort to make the US Solheim Cup team.
They’re playing for the US Women’s Open at Trump National Bedminster, but there’s another leaderboard that many players will be paying attention to this week.
Louise Solheim, the wife of the late Ping Golf founder Karsten Solheim and by choice a silent partner in the family business, died on Saturday. She was 99.