Francesca Fiorellini will be part of Team Europe for the second consecutive time at the PING Junior Solheim Cup, the Under 18 level challenge with Team USA, now in its 12th edition. The blue has received one of the six wild cards available to the captain, the French Gwladys Nocera, and will be on the course at La Zagaleda Golf Club in Benahavís, on the Spanish Costa del Golf, on 18 and 19 September, prior to the Solheim Cup ( September 22-24, Finca Cortesin, Spain).
PING Junior Solheim Cup, scheduleThe team consists of 12 players. The Spanish Rocio Tejedo, the Swedes Nora Sundberg and Meja Ortengren, the German Helen Briem, who has just imposed herself in the Girls Amateur, the other Iberian Andrea Revuelta and the Belgian Savannah De Bock.
In addition to Fiorellini, the captain Nocera, who will be assisted by the vice-captain Nora Angehrn, has entrusted the other wild cards to the Spanish Cloe Amion and Anna Cañadó Espinal, the Czech Denisa Vodickova, the Swiss Yana Beeli and the Swedish Josefin Widal.
The tournament takes place over two days. In the first six foursomes are scheduled in the morning and as many fourballs in the afternoon and in the second twelve singles.
The balance is in favor of the Americans for eight wins to three, but the previous meeting in Ohio was the prerogative of the Europeans (13-11) among which, in addition to Fiorellini, Ortengren, Sundberg, Revuelta, Vodickova, De Bock and Briem.
The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament that pits women's teams of professional players from Europe against the US, and is played in the same format as the Ryder Cup. The initiative for this competition was born from Karsten Solheim, founder of the American brand PING, which manufactures golf items.
The first tournament was held in 1990 and, after that, it was held in various places in even years until 2002. After the Ryder Cup calendar was modified, since 2003 it has been held in odd years to avoid date conflicts.
The tournament is played over three days with a total of twenty-eight matches: eight foursomes, eight fourballs and twelve singles on the last day. This is exactly the same as the Ryder format.
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