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Spanish eyes were certainly smiling on Sunday at Finca Cortesin as home nation heroine Carlota Ciganda sensationally holed the putt that saw Europe retain the Solheim Cup as they tied 14-14 with the United States after a dramatic final day’s play. Ciganda holed a two-footer for birdie on the par-3 17th to beat Nelly Korda to end a tense six hours of singles match play action in Malaga. After being somewhat surprisingly being left out of the first morning’s foursomes, the 33-year-old from Pamplona rampaged through the rest of the matches, winning four points and sinking the putt that retained…
It was a super Saturday for Europe at the 18th Solheim Cup as the home side made another incredible fightback in the fourballs at Finca Cortesin in Spain to leave the match firmly in the balance tied at 8-8 overall going into the 12 singles matches on Sunday. Carrying a two-point deficit into the afternoon session, with America leading 7-5 after the teams tied the morning foursomes, the home team made a strong start. The standard of golf from both teams was exceptional, but in the end, the session ended 3-1 in favour of Europe to level up the scores.…
Coach Jamie Greaves excels in golf fitness, having worked with a number of tour players and reached a handicap of scratch. We recently caught up with him to discuss the best upper body and arm exercises for golf and how golfers can ensure they remain in tip-top shape.In this article, Jamie shares a mixture of seven upper body and arm exercises for golf that can be done easily at home. All of the exercises have been put together with an eye on having very minimal kit. The best upper body and arm exercises for golfJamie said: “There is a misconception that…
Any thoughts that Europe’s march to a record third consecutive win in the Solheim Cup would be a simple one were dealt a swift and heavy blow on Friday morning, when Suzann Pettersen’s foursomes pairings all found themselves down in their matches early on in proceedings at Finca Cortesin in Spain. And things went from bad to worse when none of the four groups were able to get their noses back in front, resulting in the first ever 4-0 whitewash inflicted by a US team in the foursomes format of the competition. Charley Hull and Emily Pedersen suffered a 5&4…
With eight wins and over $30m in prize money banked just four years into his professional career, Norway’s VIKTOR HOVLAND is one of the biggest stars of the men’s game. Here, the current world no.4 and newly crowned FedEx Cup champion assesses his game, discusses his near misses in the majors, and his hopes of helping Europe to win back the Ryder Cup in Rome How do you even begin to reflect on what you have achieved so far this year? Three wins, the FedEx Cup title, a whole lot of prize money, and we’re only at the end of…
Top-ranked Irish golfer Leona Maguire talks about her hopes for a European win at the upcoming Solheim Cup, what it means for the 28-year-old to represent her country and her continent, and how she’s finding life competing on two tours First up, how much are you looking forward to being part of Team Europe again for the upcoming Solheim Cup matches? And what kind of form do you feel that the team looks to be in right now?I’m really looking forward to it. I love match play golf, as it kind of brings out the competitor in me. Going head-to-head…
Former US Open champion Gary Woodland has undergone surgery to remove a brain tumour. According to a statement shared on Woodland’s social media channels earlier this week, the 39-year-old was resting and recuperating after a significant portion of the tumour was successfully removed during the operation. “After a long surgery today, the majority of the tumor has been removed and he is currently resting,” the post stated. Woodland, the 2019 US Open champion, disclosed in a social media post at the end of August that he had been diagnosed with a brain lesion months earlier and had been trying to…
Lexi, this will be your sixth Solheim Cup appearance. Can you tell us what it means to you to have qualified for the Solheim Cup so many times and what your expectations for your sixth playing are this year? It means the world to me to be able to play on the Solheim Cup. I know every year that I know it’s that year playing it’s my No. 1 goal to be on that team to be able to represent my country. It’s my favorite event by far. There’s nothing like waking up, putting country’s colors on, and going to…
Captain: Suzann Pettersen Vice-Captains: Anna Nordquist, Laura Davies, Caroline Martens Average Age: 29 Average World Ranking: 41 CELINE BOUTIER (FR)AGE: 29 WORLD RANKING: 3APPEARANCES: 2 RECORD P7 W5 L1 H1Boutier topped the Solheim Cup points standings thanks in part to her back-to-back victories at The Evian and the Women’s Scottish Open earlier this summer. She made an impressive Solheim Cup debut in 2019, where she won four from four at Gleneagles, and is a two-time winner after winning 1.5 in Ohio in 2021. In the form of her life, it would be a major surprise if the world no.3 didn’t play…
History awaits Team Europe at the 2023 Solheim Cup as the defending champions bid to make it an historic hat-trick of victories against Team USA under sunny Spanish skies at Finca Cortesin. While just over half of the players currently inside the top 50 of the women’s world rankings are from outside of Europe or the United States of America, it is a biennial transatlantic tussle between players from these two continents/countries that continues to dominate the discourse and be considered the showpiece event of the women’s professional circuit outside of the five major championships. Where once it was considered…
