It's Day 2 of the Solheim Cup and, as they did yesterday, GC begins broadcasting this morning at 9am ET. Europe starts the day leading 5-3.
In case you failed to see it the day prior to this, Europe quite tons shocked the US by way of triumphing 3 of the morning foursomes. The Lewis/Salas pairing and the Kerr/Creamer pairing, predicted to be juggernauts, got close down massive time -- Salas played pretty nicely however the different 3 struggled. (In truth, Lewis additionally struggled in the afternoon fourballs.) Kerr eventually started sinking some putts late inside the healthy however it turned into TOO late. The most effective US team to win changed into Pressel/Korda -- a piece of a surprise considering long hitter/short hitter combinations typically don't fare properly in foursomes!
Europe's huge heroes were Pettersen (no marvel!), Hedwall, and Icher. You would not have recognized that Icher turned into best in her second Solheim Cup... And her first changed into several years in the past. The huge shocker changed into Matthew being close out in each periods no matter gambling virtually properly.
The afternoon consultation cut up 2-2 with the Brittanies (Lincicome and Lang) coming up big for the United States, as did the Kerr/Wie duo. Wie must have put any questions about her choose to rest along with her steady (and very innovative) play in fourballs. For Europe the Pettersen/Ciganda pairing labored largely because Suzann Pettersen can play as well as almost any 2 other players on both crew. (Lexi Thompson performed extraordinarily nicely, however with out tons from Lewis...) Ciganda struggled, seemingly due to nerves, although she did come up big on multiple holes. And the Carolines (Hedwall and Masson) is a fourball group you could see once more nowadays.
The largest information of the day concerned Ciganda hitting her ball in a danger on the 15th hollow -- sarcastically, the hole wherein she made her largest contribution to the healthy. The ruling took the better a part of a 1/2-hour, which america group complained killed the momentum of 3 separate teams who were stuck on the hole, not able to play. To compound matters, the officials now say the ruling turned into made incorrectly. I don't know if this is going to become an issue down the street, but the put off appears to be a miles bigger difficulty than the botched ruling.
Just a thought: The LPGA takes its rules on slow play pretty seriously. I wonder what penalty will be exacted on the rules officials for being so slow?Anyway, here are today's pairings for the opening foursome (alternate shot) matches -- EU team first, US team second:
- Nordqvist/Hedwall VS Pressel/Korda
- Munoz/Icher VS Lewis/Creamer
- Matthew/Masson VS Lincicome/Salas
- Pettersen/Recari VS Wie/Lang
Although I don't know what Neumann has in thoughts, Mallon has said she doesn't plan to play everyone all five matches. Kerr receives her "day off" this morning, while Lewis and Creamer will each take a seat this afternoon if Mallon sticks along with her plan. I'll be a piece surprised if we do not see the teams of Pressel/Korda, Lincicome/Lang, and Kerr/Wie this afternoon for the USA; and Hedwall/Masson for Europe. (I might not be amazed if Pettersen/Recari and Munoz/Icher additionally display up in the afternoon rounds, despite the fact that I'm underneath the impression that Neumann may also try and get Hull more experience and Pettersen might be the high-quality associate for her.)
There's quite a few golf left to play but Europe has made a very good begin closer to their first victory "over right here." The US gals higher step up nowadays!
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