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The 18th edition of the Solheim Cup, featuring the best women golfers from the United States and Europe, is set to take place at the Bernardus Golf Course in the Netherlands. The event, which alternates between the two continents, sees the defending champions USA, led by world number one Nelly Korda, facing a strong European side captained by Anna Nordqvist. European standout Leona Maguire, with an impressive record in the competition, joins the team via a wildcard pick. The match includes fourball, foursomes, and singles play, with the winning team requiring 14.5 points to claim the cup.
Leona Maguire of Team Europe lines up her putt on the first green during the 2024 Solheim Cup. Photograph: Gregory Shamus/Getty, a biennial tournament between teams made up of the best women golfers from the United States and Europe will take place from this Friday, September 11th to Sunday, September 13th at the Bernadus Golf Course in North Brabant in the Netherlands.
The tournament is live on Sky Sports throughout the week, on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Golf. On Friday and Saturday, coverage is from 6.30am, on Sunday it is from 9am until the conclusion. Jon Rahm among early Irish Open arrivals forced to take cover from wild Atlantic welcome.
There are 12 players on each team playing team golf for the first two days (fourballs and foursomes) 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 the United States, to retain it. Bernadus is a relatively new course, designed by American architect Kyle Phillips, with the course owned PSV Eindhoven chairman Robert van der Wallen developed in 2016.
It has hosted the men's Dutch Open three times, and the course has a heathland feel with water in play on several holes. This is the first time the Netherlands has hosted the Solheim Cup. Yes, she is after receiving a wildcard pick from Anna Nordqvist last month.
She will be making her fourth Solheim Cup appearance after making her debut in 2021 and has a brilliant record in the competition, winning eight, halving one and losing just three of her 12 matches. The Cavan woman's form on the LPGA Tour has been patchy this season, hence the need for a wildcard, but she showed some life in the Women's Irish Open at The K Club two weeks ago, firing a 63 on Saturday as she finished tied fourth.
The European team is as follows: Charley Hull, Esther Henseleit, Lottie Woad, Maja Stark, Céline Boutier, Carlotta Ciganda, Linn Grant, Nanna Hoerstz Madsen, Gemma Dryburgh, Albane Valenzuela, Emily Kristine Pedersen, and Leona Maguire. The US team is as follows: Nelly Korda, Angel Yin, Jennifer Kupcho, Yealimi Noh, Auston Kim, Lauren Coughlin, Allisen Corpuz, Andrea Lee, Alison Lee, Lindy Duncan, Rose Zhang, Megan Khang.
The US team is reliant on world number one Nelly Korda as their only player in the top 15 of the world, but she is a formidable player and Stanford has relied on experience with her captain picks. Europe will be led by the English duo Lottie Woad and Charley Hull.
Europe are looking to get the cup back after falling to defeat in Gainesville last time, previously Europe had drawn and therefore retained the cup in 2023 and they won the two previous times. Unlike the Ryder Cup which has had a few comprehensive wins in recent times, the Solheim Cup tends to be very close, four of the last six times there has been two points of fewer between the teams.
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