New York (AFP)
The Americans regained hope in the 17th Solheim Cup of golf, the women's equivalent of the Ryder Cup, by winning three of four games on Sunday morning against the defending Europeans, who now lead just 6.5-5.5 points.
Dominated Saturday during the first games of this 2021 edition, the US players dominated the "four balls" of Sunday morning, in Ohio, and hoped to do the same thing in the afternoon, in a four ball formula (foursome) too. , on the course of the Inverness Club in Toledo.
The Irish Leona Maguire and the English Mel Reid had yet started well this Sunday by adding a point to the table of Europe, against the world number 1 Nelly Korda and her compatriot Ally Ewing (5 and 4), which gave four points ahead of their selection.
Then everything changed at the end of the morning when Danielle Kang and Austin Ernst first beat the English Georgia Hall and the Swedish Madelene Sagstrom, then imitated by Lexi Thompson and Brittany Altomare who defeated the English Charley Hull and the Danish Emily Pedersen.
The icing on the cake, Lizette Salas and Jennifer Kupcho ended this successful morning by winning (3 and 1) against another Swede, Anna Nordqvist, associated with the Finnish Matilda Castren.
Halfway through, the suspense was therefore intact.
The last matches, in match-play, are scheduled for Monday.
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