Jul 9th, 2021 Article
Team Pace out front at Aramco Team Series
ANNE-Lise Caudal and amateur James Carson Heard delivered on the final hole to secure a slender first-round lead for Lee-Anne Pace’s quartet at the $1million Aramco Team Series.
ANNE-Lise Caudal and amateur James Carson Heard delivered on the final hole to secure a slender first-round lead for Lee-Anne Pace’s quartet at the $1million Aramco Team Series.
European trio Charley Hull, Anne Van Dam and Catriona Matthew are the latest big names confirmed for next month’s $1million Aramco Team Series – London, as the debut tournament builds an appetite-whetting cross-Atlantic field just two months out from this year’s Solheim Cup.
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the, PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
Tour pro Anne Van Dam had her driver snapped by gallery rope while riding golf cart to playoff, and subsequently went on to lose on the first extra hole after playing with 3-wood instead.
Well we nearly got the final line up right in that we predicted three of the four captain’s picks. European Captain Catriona Matthew went for France’s Celine Boutier, English stars Jodi Ewart Shadoff and Bronte Law and Norway’s Suzann Pettersen.
The skies lightened up for the first day of the Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open, with the sun shining down on the homeland’s own Michele Thomson. Thomson walked away with the 18-hole lead after recording a 7-under 65, a season-best for her on the Ladies European Tour.
It was a brutal day at Gleneagles with high winds, rain and low temperatures testing the mettle of both teams. Team USA came out narrowly on top taking the afternoon fourballs by 2½ matches to 1½ after the morning foursomes had been shared. So, it is all tied at 8-8 ahead of the twelve singles today and the Americans, given their past record in singles, must be viewed as the favourites.
Sweden’s Linn Grant came from behind on a dramatic final day at the Jabra Ladies Open to pip Anne van Dam by two shots on nine-under-par and clinch her fifth title on the Ladies European Tour.
Europe take a slender lead into day two of the 16th Solheim Cup at Gleneagles. After Europe took the morning foursomes by a score of 2½ matches to 1½, an exciting rollercoaster of an afternoon ended in the fourball matches being shared to leave Europe with an overall lead by 4½ matches to 3½.
You couldn’t write the script. It all came down to the last putt on the last green and standing over that putt was none other than, controversial captain’s pick, the superb Suzann Pettersen. With nerves of absolute steel Pettersen stroked the putt right into the centre of the cup and the crowd went wild. Your writer’s children wondered what was going on with their father shouting at the television – “Unbelieveable, totally unbelievable”.
The players in the afternoon fourballs are on the back nine. The target time for the matches is four and half hours and they are on five hours and forty-five-minute pace. It seems that the men’s game is not the only one plagued by slow play problems.
Here are the round one tee times and pairings for the Ricoh British Women's Open at Kingsbarns. Find out who Carly, Lexi and Paula are playing with.