2017 SOLHEIM CUP RESULTS

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TEAM USA WINS SOLHEIM CUP, DEFEATS TEAM EUROPE 16 1/2 - 11 1/2

by Josh Carr August 20th, 2017

"Team USA won the 2017 Solheim Cup for a second year running, as they refused to let the European’s create history by not letting their five point lead slip.

Wins from Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Lizette Salas, Gerina Piller, and Danielle Kang, combined with halves from Lexi Thompson and Angel Yin and were enough to see USA win 16 ½ - 11 ½.

However, early in the day, there was plenty of blue on the board to cause Juli Inkster some concern, as the European’s looked to re-write the record books. However, Inkster’s team remained calm and ultimately Sorenstam’s side had left themselves too much to do heading into the singles.
Take a look at how the final day singles unfolded, as Team USA secured the victory."

PLAYERS SCORECARDS:

Link to article:
www.lpga.com/news/2017-team-usa-win-the-2017-solheim-cup

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I felt Michelle played very well and lost to an excellent round play by Masson, who turned in a round of 8 under, with 2 eagles, 5 birdies , and 1 bogey for a 4 & 2 win. My congratulation to Masson well played.

Michelle played a solid 4 under round, posting 4 birdies and 1 bogey on her last hole, It seems to me, people rise to the challenge when they play against Michelle, I remember when Michelle played Yin in another match when Yin she posted 2 eagles and was like 5 or 4 under in a 4 hole stretch.

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JULI INKSTER ~ "America's Solheim Superhero"

by Randall Mell
August 20, 2017

Inkster did what no task force could do. She remade the American team in her image again.

The United States defeated the Europeans 16½ to 11½ at Des Moines Golf and Country Club with a tried and true Inkster formula, a formula no task force could devise. They worked hard, played hard, loved hard and laughed as much as they could along the way.

“Juli said something that really hit home for me,” Cristie Kerr said. “She said it in Germany and she said it here. You play for the person in front of you, you play for the person behind you. It’s not about your individual records. It's for the team. It's amazing how hard you can pull for each other when you have that mentality.”

It isn’t that other captains haven’t said as much.

It’s how Inkster gets her teams to buy into it.


Link to rest of the article:
www.golfchannel.com/news/randall-mell/us-solheim-victory-credit-inkster

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Captain America

How Juli Inkster became the embodiment of the Solheim Cup—and made the matches fun again

By Keely Levins - August 20, 2017

“It was my job to bring fun back to the Solheim Cup.” — Juli Inkster


ES MOINES, Iowa — As the fifth singles match came through the difficult par-3 17th hole at Des Moines Golf & Country Club on Sunday, the Solheim Cup about to be decided, the numbers were being crunched.

If Angel Yin won, the Americans would have earned 3½ points for the day, enough to secure a tie and retain the prize they had been so desperately pursing in front of the raucous crowds. When she made bogey, and Europe’s Karine Icher made par, the match went on to the 18th all square.

Yin ended up halving her match, so now the focus turned to Lizette Salas, facing Jodi Ewart-Shadoff. Salas was 2 up going into the 17th, so the worst that could come of her match would be a half. That meant the U.S. had its 3½ points, enough to clinch the Cup.

With that knowledge, U.S. captain Juli Inkster, who had been walking back and forth through a patch of rough between the 17th green and 16th fairway, finally appeared at ease. Forget the large five-point lead her team had going into Sunday singles. Inkster was nervous on Sunday. The 57-year-old had seen pretty much everything in her four-plus decades of competitive golf, including her own team come back from a four-point deficit two years ago in Germany, the biggest rally in Solheim Cup history. She wasn’t counting out Europe until it was over.

“How could you not be nervous? The problem is, 18 holes is a lot of golf,” said Inkster. “You’re just watching the board. I felt like I had no control over anything. Once I got out on the golf course and got to talk to the girls, I felt a lot better.”

Link to the rest of the article:
www.golfdigest.com/story/solheim-cup-2017-captain-america-how-juli-inkster-became-the-embodiment-of-the-solheim-cup-and-made-the-matches-fun-again

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Solheim Cup 2017: United States takes care of business on Sunday, wins Solheim Cup, 16½-11½

by Ryan Herrington

"It was going to take a historic effort from the European team to erase a five-point deficit and somehow take back the Solheim Cup on Sunday at Des Moines Golf & Country Club. But the United States team wouldn’t allow it. Earning six of the 12 available singles points on Sunday when it only needed 3½, the American side finished out an impressive three-day triumph, winning 16½-11½, to retain the Cup."

"Sunday’s first match out proved an example of the fire that U.S. captain Juli Inkster’s team demonstrated all week. Lexi Thompson struggled early to try and set a tone, falling 4 down through nine holes to Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist."

"But then Thompson, after encouraging words from Inkster, regrouped, winning the 10th with a birdie, holing out from the fairway for eagle on the 11th hole for another win and making long putts to win the 13th (with a birdie) and 15th (with eagle) to square the match. Thompson then jumped into the lead with another impressive birdie on the 16th. The pair would halve the match when Nordqvist won the 18th hole, but it showed that a crazy comeback like the one the U.S. pulled off in 2015 (when the Americans wiped out a four-point deficit to win in Germany) wasn’t going to happen for Team Europe."


Link to the rest of the article:
www.golfdigest.com/story/solheim-cup-2017-united-states-takes-care-of-business-on-sunday-wins-solheim-cup