Everything you need to know about team golf event as Ireland’s Leona Maguire takes part
What is the format?
There are 12 players on each team playing team golf for the first two days and then singles on the final day, where winning a match is worth one point and a halved match is worth half a point. Fourball is two players on each team playing their own ball and the best score wins the hole. Foursomes is an alternate shot format, where players take in turns to play the same ball and the best score wins the hole.
There are two sessions on Friday and Saturday, where eight players from each team participate. On Sunday, there are 12 singles matches where every player competes one-on-one against a player of the opposing team. With a total of 28 points available, 14½ points are required to win the Solheim Cup, and 14 points are required for the defending champion, in this case Europe, to retain it.It is the first time that Spain has hosted the Solheim Cup and Finca Cortesin is considered one of the country’s finest courses. A short distance inland from the Mediterranean Sea, it hosted the World Matchplay three times on the European Tour from 2009 to 2012.
“There’s lots of options of who can play with who. It’s obviously a new team and you’ll see some familiar pairings and some new pairings. [Suzann Pettersen has] done a lot of these, she’s [played] nine herself, so she knows what she’s doing,” said Maguire, adding: “We’ll play with just about anybody, so we’re going to do whatever Suzann needs us to do this week.”
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