Virginia’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Club wasn’t designed by its namesake purposefully for matchplay, but it assumed status as one of the USA’s premier team-competition venues.
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.
European Solheim Cup captain Suzann Pettersen selected veterans Georgia Hall and Emily Kristine Pedersen, her vice-captain Anna Nordqvist and rookie Albane Valenzuela to round out her 12-player roster.
The AIG Women’s Open concluded the 2024 Solheim Cup qualifying period for both Europe and the US, finalising 17 of the 24 players headed to Robert Trent Jones Golf Club next month.
At the end of a long week dominated by slow play that saw the opening two rounds both take about six hours to complete, the New Zealander reached the seven-under-par total that proved too strong for a formidable host of challengers down the stretch.
Grant Moir, from Scotland, is better described as the “set-up guy.” Over the next few days, will oversee logistical preparation of the Old Course at St Andrews, which is hosting the AIG Women’s Open for the third time.
Lauren Coughlin is getting good at this. Just under three years on from regaining full exempt status on the LPGA Tour and less than a month since she eliminated the tag “winless” from her career resume, the 31-year-old has multiple victories – both national Open titles – to her name.
The course in Louisville, Kentucky, is the fourth venue to have a Solheim Cup and Ryder Cup, alongside Gleneagles, Muirfield Village and The Greenbrier.
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