The 2023 PING Junior Solheim Cup is now under way at La Zagaleta with Team Europe dominating the Monday morning foursomes to take an early commanding lead in Spain.
With six foursomes matches contested on day one, Team Europe have walked away with 5.5 points to USA’s 0.5 thanks to some sensational morning play.
Setting the tempo early doors were the Spanish duo of Andrea Revuelta and Rocío Tejedo, who birdied three of the first four holes to go 4UP before completing the job with an emphatic 8&6 win over Megan Meng and Irene Kim.
Competing in her second PING Junior Solheim Cup, Revuelta said: “We’re really good friends and we’ve played together before. We just went out there to have fun and play our best, and we seemed to make all our shots. The Americans had a tougher time than us but we’re really happy.”
While rookie Tejedo added: “I think the most important thing in foursomes is being friends. We have a lot of confidence. The PING Junior Solheim Cup has been amazing so far.”
In a very tight second match, Nora Sundberg (Sweden) and Anna Cañado (Spain) secured a half after tying with Yana Wilson and Jasmine Koo.
Champions from 2021 Francesca Fiorellini (Italy) and Denisa Vodickova (Czechia) earned the second full point after defeating Elizabeth Rudisill and Ryleigh Knaub 2&1 on the 17th hole.
Shortly after, the pair of Helen Briem (Germany) and Yana Beeli added another point thanks to a 3&2 victory over Gianna Clemente and Anna Davis – the winner of the 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
And within minutes, Savannah De Bock (Belgium) and Cloe Amion (Spain) flooded the leaderboard with more blue winning 2&1 against Anna Song and Kathryn Ha.
With one match remaining in the morning, the Swedish duo of Meja Örtengren & Josefin Widal then completed a phenomenal foursomes session by defeating Asterisk Talley and Leigh Chien 2&1 on the 17th hole.
The afternoon fourball matches started at 13:45 local time with the following pairings (EU vs USA):
13:45: Andrea Revuelta & Rocío Tejedo vs Elizabeth Rudisill & Kathryn Ha
13:57: Francesca Fiorellini & Denisa Vodičková vs Anna Song & Megan Meng
14:09: Yana Beeli & Anna Cañado vs Gianna Clemente & Yana Wilson
14:21: Josefin Widal & Cloe Amion vs Asterick Talley & Leigh Chien
14:33: Savannah De Bock & Helen Briem vs Irene Kim & Ryleigh Knaub
14:45: Meja Örtengren & Nora Sundberg vs Jasmine Koo & Anna Davis
Follow the live scoring here.
More information can be found in the PING Junior Solheim Cup section of www.solheimcup2023.eu, and follow the Instagram account of the European PJSC Team @jrsolheimcupeurope.
