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Cup lagene er klare. Her det europeiske laget på St. Andres søndag 4. august
rett etter British Open.
05.08 Solheim Cup:
Tutta er selvsagt med på laget
Det kan bli meget spennende når Solheim Cup spilles i USA 16. - 18.
august. Skal Europa vinne på bortebane for første gang?
USA er Golfsidens klare favoritt, men det er ikke alltid at favoritten vinner.
Det har vi sett mange ganger både i Ryder Cup og i Solheim Cup.
Her er lagene for Europa og USA
Se pressemeldingen:
Neumann and Mallon Announce Teams for The 2013
Solheim Cup
St. Andrews, Scotland, Aug. 4, 2013 – European Solheim Cup Captain Liselotte
Neumann and United States Captain Meg Mallon jointly revealed their teams for
The 2013 Solheim Cup at a press conference on Sunday evening following the RICOH
Women’s British Open.
European Captain Liselotte Neumann named Caroline Hedwall (Sweden), Jodi
Ewart-Shadoff (England), Giulia Sergas (Italy) and Charley Hull (England) as her
four ‘wild card’ picks for this month’s Solheim Cup, which will be played August
16-18, 2013, at Colorado Golf Club in Parker, Colorado.
They will join Suzann Pettersen (Norway), Carlota Ciganda (Spain), Catriona
Matthew (Scotland), Caroline Masson (Germany), Beatriz Recari (Spain), Anna
Nordqvist (Sweden), Karine Icher (France) and Azahara Munoz (Spain) in defending
The Solheim Cup, when Europe attempt to win for the first time in the United
States.
Based on the final Ladies European Tour Solheim Cup standings, the top-four
players who automatically qualified through points were: Pettersen, Ciganda,
Matthew and Masson.
The next four players who qualified based on the Rolex Rankings were: Recari,
Nordqvist, Icher and Munoz.
The European squad features six Solheim Cup rookies (Ewart-Shadoff, Sergas,
Hull, Ciganda, Masson and Recari) and five players from the victorious team of
2011 (Hedwall, Pettersen, Matthew, Nordqvist and Munoz).
Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall was a member of the victorious 2011 Solheim Cup team
as a rookie and won a crucial half point in the Sunday singles that secured a
15-13 victory for Europe over America in the 12th Solheim Cup at Killeen Castle
in Co. Meath, Ireland.
Charley Hull, a rookie in her first year as a professional on the Ladies
European Tour, recorded five straight runner-up finishes at the start of the
season and becomes the youngest player in Solheim Cup history, aged 17 years,
four months and 15 days, at the time of the announcement.
Sergas will also make her Solheim Cup debut. She has four top ten finishes on
the LPGA and one top ten on the LET so far this season, including a tie for
seventh at the Kraft Nabisco Championship and a tie for fourth at the RR
Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup.
Ewart-Shadoff completes the four captain’s picks. She turned professional in
2010 and played on the Symetra Tour - The Road to the LPGA in 2010 and 2011
before winning LET Final Qualifying School for 2012. This year on the LPGA, she
has posted three top ten finishes, including a tie for fourth at the US Women’s
Open and tied seventh at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, both major
championships.
“It was a tough day obviously having to make some of the phone calls and talking
to some of the players. But I feel really comfortable and very confident with
these four players that I picked. They totally complete our team and I'm super
happy about our picks,” said Neumann.
On attempting to win for the first time in America, she added: “Obviously we've
never won over there, so it's obviously a big challenge. You know, I feel like
this is really the team that's going to do it for us.
“We've got some young girls on here; we've got some rookies, so we've got some
big, strong players, and some players that can really hit it, which I think
favours. In Colorado, the golf course is quite generous off the tees, and
looking for good, long hitters and some girls with great energy, and I think
this is the team that's going to do it.”
The U.S. Team seeks to keep their undefeated record on home soil intact when the
biennial match-play competition begins just 12 days from now.
United States Captain Meg Mallon revealed Gerina Piller and Michelle Wie as her
captain’s picks.
Based on the final U.S. Solheim Cup standings, the top-eight players who
automatically qualified for the team via a points race that began at the 2011 CN
Canadian Women’s Open are (listed in order of points ranking): Stacy Lewis,
Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Angela Stanford, Brittany Lincicome, Lexi Thompson,
Jessica Korda and Brittany Lang. The two highest ranked players not in the top-8
spots on the points list who qualified via the Rolex Rankings are No. 19 Lizette
Salas and No. 41 Morgan Pressel.
Lexi Thompson becomes the youngest ever Solheim Cup team member aged 18 years,
five months and 25 days.
“I’m just thrilled to finally have my team announced,” Mallon said. “I have 12
players who I am very excited to have on this team. They have all played their
hearts out over the last two years.”
Wie will make her third appearance on the U.S. Solheim Cup Team with a 4-3-1
all-time record in the event.
“I am so happy and so honored and so grateful to be a captain’s pick,” Wie said.
“To play under Meg and be with all the girls again, it’s a dream come true.”
Piller is making her first appearance in The Solheim Cup. “I feel a thousand
emotions, but I’m just honoured to be considered and ecstatic to be picked,”
Piller said.
Following the announcement, both teams gathered on the 18th fairway of The Old
Course, St. Andrews, for an historic photograph on the Swilcan Bridge.
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