A match-by-match overview of this opening day of this 16th Solheim Cup at Gleneagles, where a overdue USA fightback kept Europe’s entire lead down to a point…
Carlota Ciganda & bronte Law halved with Morgan Pressel & Marina Alex
Legislation and Ciganda got off to a terrific start for a par was sufficient to win against the opening hole when Pressel and Alex wanted three to reunite from the fringe, along with the following American bogey in the fourth shot Europe two up.
But the match swung when Pressel emptied a lengthy birdie putt on the fifth green and a few ragged golf in the house pair during the subsequent two holes led to bogeys and they had been abruptly one down.
However, they restored parity at the following, although the Americans edged forward with a birdie at the 14th before Ciganda rolled in a great putt for a crucial two in the short 17th which Alex could not match, along with a scrappy closing hole was halved in pars as the very best match ended all square.
Georgia Hall & Celine Boutier Brittany Altomare 2 along with bt Lexi Thompson & 1
Thompson’s proud unbeaten record since 2013 appeared set to keep if the visitors gained an early lead on Hall and Boutier in the next, but Thompson and Altomare bogeyed the next before the Europeans moved ahead with a birdie at five.
The American pair got to trouble on the slipped two down, and they failed to escape with a half at par at the very long distance despite Thompson blocking her instant into water, but they were soon three down when Boutier holed a great 30-footer for birdie in the rear at the 10th.
A bogey five had been enough to shoot Europe four forward in the 12th andalso, although the Americans won 14 and 16 to extend the game, Hall and also Boutier shut out an impressive success when Thompson and Altomare were unable to birdie the 17th.
Jodi Ewart Shadoff & caroline Masson dropped to 4 & Nelly Korda 6 & Jessica Korda
The Korda sisters had to persuade Juli Inkster to pair the siblings together as soon as the captain had reservations, but it proved an inspired move as they romped to some one-hundred 64 win over Masson and Ewart Shadoff.
The Kordas made their intentions clear with birdies for wins over the first two pockets and, with the European group pars in fifth and the fourth were good enough to carry the Americans four upward.
Ewart Shadoff then raced a six-foot birdie putt a similar space past the pit at the seventh and Masson missed the yield, but the house set ended the rot with a degree in the eighth simply to earn a wreck of their extended ninth as the Americans turned with a controlling five-up lead.
Masson holed from 12 feet in the 10th for a brave half after Jessica Korda had chipped in to get two, and also the Kordas finished a resounding 6&4 triumph over the 14th green if Ewart Shadoff’s birdie putt drifted wide of the goal.
Charley Hull & Azahara Munoz 1 & Annie Park 2 & bt Megan Khang
A degree in the earliest awarded Hull and Munoz the early lead which was cancelled out with an American birdie at the second, but Khang and Park struggled for precision at the fifth and fourth and gifted the Europeans a two-up lead.
But Hull and Munoz then struck issues of their own and lost the sixth and eighth holes to par, and the long ninth was then halved in bogey-sixes before Hull and Munoz left their first birdie of the match at the 13th to edge beck ahead.
The subsequent few holes have been halved in pars, and a solid three at the 17th proved sufficient to score a 1 or 2 win to Hull and Munoz as Khang and Park failed to save par following a wayward tee shot.
Suzann Pettersen & Anne Van Dam bt Meghan Kang & Lizette Salas 4&2
Pettersen enjoyed a successful return to Solheim Cup actions to help justify her wildcard choice, although rookie Anne Van Dam did a lot of their damage since Europe swept into a 2 & 4 success in the top fourballs match.
Van Dam’s par won the opening gap following Kang and Salas both saw trouble off the tee and, after Salas birdied the second, Pettersen nailed a huge, 40-foot putt to get a bonus birdie at the fourth to restore the blue direct.
The Dutch debutant struck one of the day’s shots at the birdie, which she accompanied with additional wins in the seventh and ninth to take the home side four up.
Pettersen more than played her part as she birdied 10 and 11 to earn crucial halves and, although Salas pulled back when she drove off the green in 14 and two-putted for birdie, the European group had plenty hand and wrapped a painstakingly slow experience about the 16th green – five hours and 11 minutes once they teed off.
Caroline Hedwall & anna Nordqvist dropped to Ally McDonald & Angel Yin 5 & 7
Nordqvist and Hedwall have enjoyed enormous success but the stalwarts were out of sorts from the outset since they were outclassed by Yin and McDonald, that made four birdies.
As the group won the first 3 holes mcDonald birdied the moment in, and McDonald wrapped to shoot them four up.
The guide turned into seven when Yin and McDonald united around the turn, but the Swedes managed to avoid a listing defeat when Nordqvist finally managed to register their very first birdie of the day.
But that was a minor pledge as of those group could scramble a par handing Team USA a 7&5 victory that levelled the entire scores.
Munoz & hull halved with N Korda & Altomare
Hull and Munoz looked set to make it 2 wins out of two to the opening day since they recovered from a slow start to open up a four-hole lead with six to play with, but a terrific fightback from Korda and Altomare undid them.
Despite making just 1 birdie having conquered Annie Park along with Megan Khang in the morning foursomes, Hull and Munoz were more free-flowing after lunch but had to come from behind when both bogeyed the hole.
Munoz birdied the seventh and fourth around a par from Hull and also the English ace uttered a putt for two in the 10th.
This became four once Hull added another birdie at the 12th before Altomare responded in the next, and the Americans then birdied the last three holes to grab an improbable half, with Altomare holing from 20 feet in the past and Hull and Ciganda both missing from comparable range.
Ciganda & Law halved with J Korda & Thompson
Having endured his first defeat in the morning foursomes, Thompson had to birdie the last hole to avoid another reduction Jessica Korda since Law and Ciganda came close to pulling off a win in a see-saw encounter.
After a scrappy first hole in the European group, Ciganda won the following two holes only for Korda into birdie the next and an American diploma was sufficient to win the fifth, but Law then birdied the next two holes because the lead changed hands for the third time in seven holes.
Korda holed to the eagle of this 16th Solheim Cup, which she followed to take the visitors back in front and struck on the ninth green, but Law responded again with a birdie at 11.
Ciganda and Law both failed to match Thompson’s pars at 13 and 14, however Law’s birdie at 15 triggered an astonishing turnaround as Ciganda birdied the long 16th and then emptied a massive putt for one more in 17 which recovered the lead – to the seventh time that the lead had changed hands in the game.
But Thompson atoned for a push that was obstructed into the tough once, after laying up, she cut a good wedge and read the putt to end at a high for the visitors.
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