Leona Maguire to play alongside Georgia Hall in Friday’s fourball session
Maja Stark and Emily Pedersen were the only Team Europe pairing to pick up a win in Friday's foursomes, beating Team USA's Ally Ewing and Jennifer Kupcho. Photograph: Scott Taetsch/Gettygot off to a poor start as they lost the opening foursomes 3-1 at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia.’s only winners as they beat Ally Ewing and Jennifer Kupcho, although the American pair fought back from four down after five holes to take the match all the way to the 18th.
Rose Zhang and Lauren Coughlin then completed a 3&2 win over Swiss rookie Albane Valenzuela and France’s Celine Boutier, before world number two Lilia Vu and rookie Sarah Schmelzel defeated Linn Grant and Carlota Ciganda by the same margin to make it 3-0 to the home side. “Generally we were playing pretty good. We said to each other, if we keep playing the way we’ve been playing, we are going to win this match.”
“They are just going to go out in the afternoon and try and win the session. It’s only the first session, we’ve only played for four points so it’s not real panic mode yet.”
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