Solheim Cup Golf, Day One - Europe have one point lead going into day two

Europe will take a 4½-3½ lead over the United States into the second day of the Solheim Cup at Gleneagles.

Charley Hull and Bronte Law saw their afternoon fourball matches being halved after both English players missed putts on the 18th hole.
Amy MacDonald and Angel Yin won 7&5 for the biggest fourball win against Swedes Anna Nordqvist and Caroline Hedwall.
American Lizette Salas was twice warned for slow play on a windy day at Gleneagles.
Alongside Danielle Kang against Suzann Pettersen and Anne van Dam, the first of the afternoon fourballs took three hours to complete the front nine, with the schedule saying that fourballs shoul take no longer than four hours and 35 minutes for all 18 holes.
Europe won 4&2 in that tie, the match time clocked in a five hours and 11 minutes when it finished at the 16th.
If she was needed to be told a third time, Salas would have lost a hole.

Photo from BBC Sport

Debutant van Dam had three birdies in four holes to put Europe four up after nine on the way to victory, while her wildcard partner Pettersen - ranked outside the world's top 600 - hit a monster birdie putt to win the fourth.

Photo from BBC Sport

Law and Carlota Ciganda picked up a point from two of the matches of the day.
England's Law revelled in a boisterous home atmosphere at the first tee, encouraging the crowd to go louder as she hit Europe's opening shot of the 16th Solheim Cup.
The Stockport player and Spain's Ciganda briefly led their foursome match against Morgan Pressel and Marina Alex, but it required Ciganda to hole a 30-foot putt to win the 17th and halve the match.
Captain Catriona Matthew kept the pair together for the afternoon fourballs, having a similarly titanic battle with Jessica Korda and Lexi Thompson.
The match was all square after 12, with none of the first seven being halved, but bogeys from Europe but USA two up with four to play.
Law holed a 25-footer at the 15th to halve the deficit, and a bogey at the next for Thompson saw the match return to all square.
Ciganda matched her birdie putt from the morning in the afternoon at 17, putting Europe one up with one to play.
Both Europeans missed putts to win the match as Thompson holed from 15 feet to win the hole and halve a pulsating match.

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Hull and Munoz took on American debutants Megan Khang and Annie Park in the foursomes, and after winning the first holed the Europeans never trailed to win 2&1 with a par at the 17th.

In the same pair for the fourballs, Hull won three holes and Munoz two to go four up with six to play against Nelly Korda and Brittany Altomare.

Birdies on three of the next four holes from Altomare halved Europe's lead, before Korda tapped in after hitting the pin at the 17th, a hole at which Hull had missed a four-foot birdie attempt.

Neither Munoz or Hull could match Altomare's birdie at the last as the Americans produced a great recovery to see the match halved.

Georgia Hall and Celine Boutier picked up Europe's first full point in the morning.

They extended their lead from two to three up at the par-three 10th and managed to go four clear despite a bogey at the 12th.

USA birdied the 14th and Altomare holed a 20-footer to win the 16th, while her partner Thompson couldn't match the result from a similar distance at the 17th as Boutier stepped up to roll in from four feet to secure the 2&1 win.

Photo from BBC Sport

The Korda sisters - the first sisters to play together in the Solheim Cup - had a 6&4 win over Caroline Masson and Jodi Ewart Shadoff to win the first point of the 2019 tournament.
26-year-old Jessica and 21-year-old Nelly convinced USA captain Juli Inkster to put them together in the foursomes, a decision which paid off as they went five up through seven holes to move the match quickly away from their opponents.
Yin and McDonald started with five birdies in the front nine to five up in the fourballs, before birdies at 10 and 11 put them out of sight, only to be denied a record-breaking win by Nordqvist's birdie on the 12th.

GLOSSARY
Foursome - Golfers compete in teams of two, using only one ball per team, and taking alternate shots until the hole is completed.
Team members take turns in teeing off on each hole, i.e. one player will take the tee shot on odd-numbered holes, and the other on even-numbered holes.

Fourball - Competing in pairs or teams, each golfer plays his own ball; the team's score on each hole is the lower of the two players' scores. 
Only one of a pair is required to complete each hole. 
The winners are the team with the lowest aggregate score over a set number of holes.

SCORECARD
Europe 4½-3½ USA


Day One
Foursomes
A/S Carlota Ciganda/Bronte Law v Morgan Pressel/Marina Alex A/S

2&1 Georgia Hall/Celine Boutier v Alexis Thompson/Brittany Altomare

Caroline Masson/Jodi Ewart Shadoff v Jessica Korda/Nelly Korda 6&4

2&1 Charley Hull/Azahara Munoz v Megan Khang/Annie Park

Fourballs
4&2 Suzann Pettersen/Anne van Dam v Danielle Kang/Lizette Salas

Anna Nordqvist/Caroline Hedwall v Ally McDonald/Angel Yin 7&5

A/S Carlota Ciganda/ Bronte Law v Jessica Korda/Lexi Thompson A/S

A/S Charley Hull/Azahara Munoz v Nelly Korda/Brittany Altomare A/S

Day Two
Foursomes
8:10 Anna Nordqvist/Anne van Dam v Morgan Pressel/Marina Alex

8:22 Georgia Hall/Celine Boutier v Lizette Salas/Ally McDonald

8:34 Charley Hull/Azahara Munoz v Danielle Kang/Megan Khang

8:46 Carlota Ciganda/Bronte Law v Jessica Korda/Nelly Korda

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