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SOLHEIM CUP - THE PREVIEW
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USA vs. EUROPE. Matchplay Mayhem. Two years of bragging rights are on the line. The lads have done the deep dive on the Solheim Cup, and they are genuinely buzzing with anticipation. No patronising — just pure respect for the phenomenal golf and guaranteed three days of drama teeing off September 11th. Tommy and the crew break down why this year's Twentieth edition of the Solheim Cup is quite simply unmissable — so press play and get in on the action.
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Welcome to Tommy Does Golf, the podcast where three autonomous give you our opinions on everything golf. I'm Tommy Long, joined by fellow PGA professionals James Morgan and Paul Garman. With over a hundred years accounting in the golf industry between us, we are well into our background. We'll do our best to stay on topic, but just like our teashots these days, this podcast could go anywhere. We're hoping you enjoy the banter, and maybe, just maybe, we'll share a few pearls of wisdom along the way. Let's get into it. Welcome to our 2026 Solheim Cup preview. In a sport where it's normally just you against the golf course marking a scorecard that really doesn't care about your feelings, making it on to one of these teams is huge. It's the payoff for every 5am alarm clock, every tough and lonely training session, and for pushing through those soul-searching moments in which every player will have asked themselves, is all of this effort ever going to pay off? And how much longer do I give this? Along with having earned the right to stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the very rivals you spend the rest of the year trying to bury comes a weight of responsibility. You immediately carry the aspirations of your teammates and continent on your shoulders. But that responsibility and that camaraderie with your team members, that's what makes wearing those colours such an incredible experience. These ladies are serious athletes who consistently perform at a level we've almost become blasé about. The US College Golf Pathway has been instrumental in elevating the women's game and continues to do so today, nurturing the future superstars of the LPGA Tour. It deserves massive recognition for that. Here's a stat to chew on. Nineteen 24 players across these two teams played US College Golf. Now to navigate this episode, we've drafted in a reinforcement. Neil, our tipster supreme, is back in the studio. It's great to see you, fella. Okay, here's the plan. A quick Solheim Cup history quiz to test the LEDs, a team roster rundown, Paul on the format, James with the inside track on the host venue, and Neil with some betting options and suggestions. Finally, we'll chew the fat on possible pairings and with zero accountability predict a winner. Now that sounds incredibly organised, doesn't it? But I can promise you right now it won't be. Right, that's enough waffle from me. Let's get on with it. Fellas, are you ready for the quiz? Bring it on. Question one. Who are the current holders of the Solheim Cup?
SPEAKER_03Paul. The US, I think, are the current holders. Yes, correct. Winning score? Yeah, if you want to give it to me. 15 and a half to the US, 12 and a half to the Europeans.
SPEAKER_02Correct. The United States current holders won in 2024 15.5 to 12.5. Alright. Which player has played in the most Solheim Cups? Which player has played in the most Solheim Cups?
SPEAKER_03Paul. The legend that is Dame Laura Davies.
SPEAKER_02Correct. It is Dame Laura Davies. She made 12 consecutive appearances for Team Europe in the Solheim Cup. 1990 through 2011. Pretty impressive. Okay, what about for the USA? Which player from the USA has made the most Solheim Cup appearances? Neil, have a stab. Julie Inkstler. She's one of, yes. She is tied with Christy Kerr. They both appeared nine times in the Solheim Cup. Good shout, mate. Good shout. Alright, Neil, just a bit more of a random question. Paul's done a lot of research on this, so you might get this. What type of glass is the trophy made of? What type of glass is the Solheim Cup trophy made of?
SPEAKER_03Stab in the dark.
SPEAKER_02Go for it. Waterford Crystal. Cut glass Irish Waterford Crystal. Wow. Very good nudge. Excellent. Right. Well, following up on that, we'll go one more, Paul. See if you've done this one. Who designed the Solhein Cup trophy?
SPEAKER_03Paul.
SPEAKER_02Mr. Waterford. But it wasn't, it was Billy Briggs. But I like the way you're thinking. Alright. Next question. Who are the current all-time points leaders for Europe and the USA? So who are the current all-time points leaders for Europe and the USA? Anyone want to have a stab at Europe first? James? Dame Laura. Dame Laura Davis, absolutely. 25 points. And the USA, Christy Kerr, 21 points for the States. Okay. Next question. How many points are needed to win the Solheim Cup? So how many points are needed to win the Solheim Cup? Paul. 14 and a half. It is 14 and a half. Correct. Alright then. Next question. How many points are needed for the defending champion to retain the cup? 14. 14. It is 14. Correct. Alright. Now a very, very simple one. How many singles matches are played on the final day? How many singles matches are played on the final day? Neil. Twelve. Alright, next question. What is the USA's best category statistically since the Solheim Cup began? What is the USA's best category statistically since the Solheim Cup began?
SPEAKER_01Winning the singles.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's the singles. They have a record of 106 wins, 33 halves, and 81 losses from the 226 singles matches today. So yeah, they're pretty dominant in the singles, or they have been. Right, next question. Who was the youngest ever Solheim Cup captain? Who was the youngest ever Solheim Cup captain? Anybody? Give us a clue. Well she's European. Lottie Neumann? Well, not bad. Along the right lines, Europe's Catherine Nielsmark. 36 years and 13 days old in 2003. So quite young for a captain. Okay, alright. Now next question. Which course has hosted the most Solheim Cups? Which golf course has hosted the most Solheim Cups? Not an easy question. Anybody have a stab at this?
SPEAKER_03Based on the fact that the first tournament took place at Lake Nona. Yes. I'll say Lake Nona.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's a good way of thinking about it. Not bad. But it's not. Well in the States and it's none. Every edition has been played at a different venue. So no course has hosted it more than a couple of things.
SPEAKER_00Just running through them all in my head. Yeah, I had to find a fine.
SPEAKER_02It's kind of a trick question, but there you go. Okay. Right. Here we go. What is the largest margin of victory in Solheim Cup history? What is the largest margin of victory in Solheim Cup history? Neil, I'm going to come to you. Eight. Eight points, correct. Can you tell me where it was? I know the captain was Lisa Lot Neumann. Wow, that's good nudge. I didn't even know that myself. I can tell you where it was.
SPEAKER_012013.
SPEAKER_02It was.
SPEAKER_00James.
SPEAKER_02Colorado. Colorado Golf Club, yes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we just had to scroll through in my hand.
SPEAKER_021810. Yeah, well, you're going through them for the other questions, so well done. All right. Here we go. Next question. Who is the youngest player ever to compete in the Solheim Cup? Who is the youngest player ever to compete in the Solheim Cup? Neil. Charlie Hole. It is Charlie Hole. 17 years and 149 days when she made her debut at Colorado Golf Club, James, in 2013. There you go. Fantastic. Alright. Here we go then. Who is the oldest player ever to compete in the Solheim Cup? Who is the oldest player ever to compete in the Solheim Cup? Paul tell me. Julie Yengster. It was Julie Yengster. How old? Any idea? No. 51. 51. It was 51. Is she 51? And 91 days. It was it was 51 and 91 days well done, James. So her ninth and final appearance was in 2011. Incredible. Okay. Next question. How many holes in one have there been in the Solheim Cup? How many holes in one have there been in the Solheim Cup? Neil, give it to me. There have been two. I know who the first one was. Tell me who was it? Anna Norquist. Fantastic, it was. Second one? No one remembers second one. No, they don't. Emily Pedderson. It was Emily Pedderson. Oh. She made the second one in 2023. So there you go. All right. Which European player has the most singles victories? Which European player has the most singles victories? A lot of blank faces. I'm gonna give this to you. Katrina Matthew, six wins. Alright, Katrina Matthew. And the USA Julingster, also six wins. So that's the most singles. Alright, okay. What is the USA's biggest winning margin? What is the USA's biggest winning margin? Anybody? Eleven and a half, four and a half in the inaugural 1990 Solomon Cup. At Lake Nona, of course. Okay. Alright, next one. Who was the first European captain to win on American soil? Who was the first European captain to win on American soil? James. Lottie Neumann. It was Lottie Neumann who led Europe to that 18-10 victory in 2013. And Colorado Golf Club. Okay. So that brings us to the final question in our Solheim Cup quiz. Here we go, boys. You can all have a stab at this one. What is the home team win percentage in the Solheim Cup? James, you give it to me first. 80%. 80%. What are you going for, Neil? What's 80%? 82. What are you gonna go for? Oh, I'm gonna go lower. What are you gonna go for? 75. Well, you win the bet. It's 63.2%. The host team has won 12 of the last 19 editions. So you did pretty well in the quiz there, boys. I'm quite impressed with that, really. I learned things when I put those questions together. Before we go to Paul to talk about the event format, I'm going to quickly introduce the teams. My apologies in advance if my pronunciation of any of the team surnames is not on point. So, first up, Team USA. Now their captain is Angela Stanford, a Solheim Cup legend in her own right, having made six appearances as a player. She appointed Christy McPherson, Paula Creamer, and Brittany Lang as her three assistant captains. Now for the team itself, and in no particular order. World number one, Nellie Corder, Jennifer Cupcho, Yi Lima No, Austin Kim, Lauren Coughlin, Alison Corpus, Angel Yin, Andrea Lee, Lindy Duncan, Megan Kang, Alison Lee, and finally Rose Zhang. So moving on to Team Europe, the captain from Sweden, three-time major champion Anna Nordquist, also a Solheim Cup legend, playing in nine consecutive editions for Team Europe, amassing a career points tally of 18.5 points in the process. Nordquist appointed fellow Swede Caroline Headwall, England's Mel Reed, and Anne Van Damme from the Netherlands as her vice captains. An impressive amount of Solheim Cup experience between the four of them to draw upon. Moving on to the playing team roster, again in no particular order, we have Charlie Hull, Esther Henselite, Lottie Wode, Maya Stark, Celine Boutier, Carlotta Segonda, Nana Kurtz Madsen, Leona McGuire, Julia Lopez Ramirez, Nastasia Nadeau, Mimi Rhodes, and finally Lynn Grant. Now fellas, I want to share a couple of things that I found really interesting. I had a look at the ages of the players on both teams. Team USA's average age came out at 28.42 years old, compared to Team Europe's average age, which was slightly younger, of 27.58. So not even a year in that. And the other thing that I did, because I spent far too much time on my research than I should have, was to work out the average world ranking for either team. Now Team USA came out on top in that one, with an average world ranking of 31 compared to Team Europe's average world ranking of 54. Initially I was surprised how high both world ranking averages worked out to be. But when you consider that across the two teams, only three players are currently ranked inside the world's top ten as of the 31st of August, those being world number one, Nellie Corda, Lottie Wode at number seven, and Charlie Hull currently at number eight, it becomes understandable. Couple that with the fact that the rest of the world players, especially those from Asia, have been pretty dominant over the last 18 months and as a result occupy a number of the top 20 spots in the world rankings. It actually makes perfect sense. The last thing I'm going to bore you with is this. I also looked at the number of individual tournament wins in 2026 for the players on both teams. So on the European team, a total of three wins combined. On the American team in 2026, five wins combined. I was quite surprised when I looked at that. 24 players winning a combined eight tournaments between them in 2026. That's not to say we're not going to see some great golf at this year's Solheim Cup, but I did think that was interesting. Okay, so now we're going to head over to Paul, who is going to explain to us the matchplay format of this event. Take it away, Paul.
SPEAKER_03Cheers, Tommy. So yeah, so the format is exactly the same format as the Ryder Cup. Three-day team match play competition. Day one in the morning session usually consists of four foursoms followed by the afternoon, which would be four four balls. Now, again, this could change. It's the captain's call as to whether they want to swap that around.
SPEAKER_02Don't want to ruin your flow, but is it the captain of the host team that gets that choice, or is it the captain of the holders of the trophy?
SPEAKER_03Of changing the actual format.
SPEAKER_02Yes, morning and afternoon.
SPEAKER_03Home captain.
SPEAKER_02So Anna Nordquist gets to say whether it's Forsomes in the morning or yeah, okay, perfect.
SPEAKER_03But that's usually the way it actually starts off. So Forsom's in the morning, four ball in the afternoon. And then the same push repeat on Saturday. So basically the same on Saturday, the last day, day three, the Sunday, that's when we move into the singles, and that's 12 head-to-head match play. The draw is actually done at random. It doesn't necessarily mean that Nellie Corda, ranked world number one, will be playing against the highest ranked player of the European team. Each captain can decide who they're going to put out first, whether they want to, in theory, hold back some of their stronger players to anchor it at the end. Again, that is the captain's prerogative. But yeah, in a nutshell, that is the format. Three days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, foursums in the morning, four ball in the afternoon, same on the Saturday, and then the the real exciting part, the head-to-head, the singles on the Sunday. It's a race to how many points for the win? So to win it, you've got to get to fourteen and a half. Okay. But the team that is defending, if they get to 14, if it's halved at 14, 14, 14, they return the Solheim Cup. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Eight points available day one, eight points available day two, twelve points day three. Yep. Perfect. All right. I think that's pretty clear, boys. Very good. All right. Thanks, Paul.
SPEAKER_03No worries.
SPEAKER_02Let's head over to James. James has done a bit of research for us on the Bernardus Golf Club in the Netherlands. James, what can you tell us about it? Is there anything to look out for?
SPEAKER_00Pass 72, 43s, 4 par fives. They're gonna play it at about 6,550 yards. So that's not overly long, but I think there's some signature holes that they don't have to be long to be tricky.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00So the knowledge you play in the order that the course was designed, they've moved a couple of holes around. Right. So hole number 15 is one of their signature holes. It's a par three, it's only 137 metres or 150 yards. Yeah. Over water, uh heavily contoured green, three bunkers behind. And again, it's gonna be how the state of the match is. You know, you're you're two up, playing the 15th, and the flag's tucked in the corner. Do you go for it? Now you go for the middle of the green, bring in three putting. Now, if you're two down, you're gonna go at it. And the T is sheltered, so they're saying any wind, and the first day is gonna be windy, any wind, you won't feel it. So it's gonna be the experience of things like caddies, team captains, sotting out where the wind's gonna be coming to and from through their practice strands. Another hole to look for is hole number six, another part three, 185 yards. And it's played over water to a peninsula green, massive green, but again, wind coming from the wrong direction brings the water into play. Yeah. You've just got to trust yourself with these golf holes. So at least that one's a little bit early in the round. And then, which is normally hole number two, one of the toughest holes is actually the 18th, which is a path five. Uh, there's water on the left, and then it then cuts round about 150 yards out and then goes down the right hand side, heavily bunkered. So again, you're one down playing the last, you've got to have a go. And it's one of those screens where everything slopes to the water on the right and slopes off into a hollow on the left, and then you're chipping back towards the water. So I think it's actually going to be quite an exciting golf course. They've had three Dutch opens there, men's Dutch Opens. Yes, they have. The big hitters. There are some short path forwards which they can have a pop at, but again, those are early-ish on the round. And the problem with that is that there's a lot of risk around the greens. Yeah. So the bigger hitters might be having a crack. Yeah. But again, I think it's a really fair test of golf. Yeah, and that's what you want, isn't it? It's going to really set up for some.
SPEAKER_02It's going to be really good. And I think that the camera work around their golf course, the viewing points, it's going to be quite well televised, I think. They really are going to tell the story on the way around.
SPEAKER_00The other thing that I like about it is that when you hear like 137 metre, 155 yard par three, we can relate to, say, hitting an eight iron, seven iron. Watching some of the men's golf, there was a hole today that was 178 yards, and they weren't sure whether they'd hit a pitching wedge or a nine iron.
SPEAKER_02It's just totally. There's not really much more to say about the golf course, but it was designed. By Kyle Phillips. Kings Barnes and Dunn Donald Lynx were earlier designs of Kyle Phillips. So he's had a bit of experience before they opened this one in 2018. And like you said, James, 2021, 22, and 23 European tour held the Dutch Open. So it's obviously a decent venue. So yeah, it's going to be interesting to watch it and learn about this golf course. I can't wait. Alright, anything else on that? Oh, that's pretty much it, isn't it? Anything? I have got the long-range weather forecast. When you mentioned that it's going to be windy on day one, I thought it's got me a so give us it. Give us the long-term forecast.
SPEAKER_00The actual forecasting of the practice rounds Wednesday, Thursday for rain, on and off showers, which will change the way the course plays. Then on the Friday, they're talking of winds of between 15 and 30 miles an hour. Which could really throw the kettle in its pink. And then over the weekend the wind dies, it's just an 18 to 20 degrees, a lovely weekend sort of thing.
SPEAKER_02Europe has been burning, hasn't it, for the last sort of two months, three months. It's been ridiculously hot. And you know that yourself, Neil, it's part of your world tour, wasn't it? So you it's probably bouncy the fairways, I would imagine. Obviously, they've got watering systems about.
SPEAKER_00My pictures I've seen, it is quite lush grass.
SPEAKER_02Is it? Okay. They've got a fair bit of grass. Fantastic. Alright. Before we go over to Neil for his wisdom on some possible wages, I want to say we're not encouraging you to gamble. A very wise man once told me to never bet more than you can afford to lose. So please heed that advice. And if you are partial to a small wager, please always gamble responsibly. Neil, it's over to you, mate.
SPEAKER_01Thank you, Tommy. A little bit early for the TAB or Paddy Power or Bet Fair, particularly on any odds. But they've got it priced very evenly. They've got both teams equal, really paying two to one. And whichever one you want to pick, 13 to 1 for a tie. Because we've only ever had one tie, so it's priced very closely. You look at the stats you read out. It's a tough pick. Personally, I think USA will maybe just grab it. But anyway, there's still some bets out there. It's obviously very similar to a Ryder Cup in terms of the betting. If you look back to Ryder Cups and opportunities that were there, you've got options to bet on probably outright winner or even a points margin. Individual highest point scorer, you can either pick it on a team basis or overall. And then obviously you've got the individual, you've got the foursomes and the four balls and singles on the final day. I think with the foursomes and the four ball Europe, like the men's writer cup, it's very similar. But I mean the Solheim, the ladies generally play the Forsomes and Four Ball better. Yeah. But the key is to really look at your pairings. Yes. I think you know, till you get them out. I mean, if they go with some strong players, if they put Nelly with Lauren Coughlin or Alison Corpez, they're going to be a hard team to beat. And so I think you've got to really wait until the teams are announced to go on those bets. But there's opportunities there. Some slightly different ones. So you're going to have maybe the highest rookie scoring points. That's another one to look at. Captain's picks, obviously, four for Europe, three for America. So picking who you think's going to be the best one out of them. I think the key is look at the world rankings, look at players. There could be some of these players might only get one game before the singles. If maybe not even a game. So a bit of a gamble, but no hole in one. I might eat my hat, but I'm going to go for no hole in one on the statistics. And look at some multis. So for me, I might go USA to win, Nellie Corder, top highest point scorer.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01Maybe chucking Lottie Wode, debutant. Maybe her to be the highest point scorer. Multi him up and fingers crossed.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's really good. Like you say, until those teams come out in terms of the pairings, difficult to really have much of a punt, isn't it? But I'm sure I'll lose some money somewhere along the line. We've got to throw a few dollars at it to keep it interesting, really. So before we do talk about some possible pairings, I've got some things that I want to share with you fellas. First up, the captain's picks. Out of the four captain's picks, the Europe and a North Quist selected three rookies, those being Julia Lopez Ramirez, Nastasia Nadeau, and Mimi Rhodes. Team USA, because of their qualifying system, only had three captain's picks. Captain Angela Stanford opted for experience by using only one of those picks on a rookie, that rookie being Alindy Duncan. Even though it's her maiden appearance in the Solheim Cup, she actually happens to be the oldest player on the US team. So I don't think she's going to be short on confidence. Another one I found interesting was that when I added up the combined previous Solheim Cup appearances total for each team, the USA, they've got a combined previous Solheim Cup appearance total of 24 compared to that of Team Europe, which totals 27. So it's close. Again, not a lot in it. The next thing I had a look at, and now you'll be starting to realise just how much time I did waste on this, was the combined number of previous Solheim Cup points won across the 12 players from each team. Now I know there's some rookies in there, etc., but so far in previous Solheim Cups, for the European team, the combined points total accumulated is 56.5 points. For the American team, it's 50. So again, remarkably close. It's not miles apart. In terms of current top 10 players in the world who are playing this Solheim Cup, you've got Nellie Corder at world number one, rookie Lottie Wode, who's ranked number seven, and Charlie Hull, who's ranked world number eight. I could go on, fellas, but you're looking a little sleepy-eyed, so we better crack on. Let's have a chat about some possible pairings. Who do you think might be paired together by the captains and what are your reasons why?
SPEAKER_03Paul, tell me. On the subject of a rookie, I would just like to mention that Lottie Wode, 22 years old, okay, she won the KPMG Women's Irish Open while still an amateur in July 2025. Later in the same month, she won her first tournament as a professional golfer, which was the ISPS Hander Scottish Open. Now, between 2019 and 2024, she played in 16 events where it was a team event. So she might be a rookie on paper in the Solheim Cup, but when it comes to actually representing her country, in this occasion representing Europe, there is no one better qualified, I think, to be up there as my player pick than Lossie Ward. But I think she's going to stand out. I think she's got the mentality, I think she's got the game for it. But James is talking about difficult conditions, possibly a lot of wind. Man, that's Lossie World, from what I've seen, she can handle it all. James.
SPEAKER_00Relying on Charlie Hull, relying on Lottie Ward, maybe leaning too heavily on two or three players at the mended. And then when you get to the singles, and then luckily, again, we keep going back to the Rider Cup, but by the time we got to the singles, the Europeans pretty much had it stitched up and only just got over. Yeah. You just hope that the captain has really done her homework on pairings. As we all know, tiredness and making decisions on golf courses, they don't go well together. And you hope they've been out and played that golf course because the Americans will not have played the golf course. They won't have a clue about it. So you're just hoping that a lot of the European players have at some point been told get over there and have a look. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Neil, what do you think? I don't think there's a huge amount to add on that. I think they'll probably give two Swedish girls a run out together. Yes. Yeah, they've covered most of the pairings, Rose Zhang and Megan Kang. Yeah. Pretty unbeatable chemistry. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised to see them in there. Yeah, I'm just gonna be really interested to see, like I say, when you look at the European world rankings, you've got four of them over the top 80. So there might be a real pressure on some of the high-ranked players, like James said, a lot on their shoulders and they're playing a lot of games. But you hope that Europe gets off to a good start and they give some of these newbies an early run.
SPEAKER_02An early run, get some experience. Yeah. I had a look into the colleges that these ladies went to. Even though a number of them attended the same college, there wasn't a lot of overlapping as to when they did so. But one that did stand out was on Team Europe, Lynn Grant and Maya Stark, who both went to Arizona State together. They're known to be best friends and are often referred to as the Swedish soulmates. So surely they will be a pairing at some stage. On Team USA, an obvious pairing is Nellie Corder and Megan Kang because they're very close friends. But because they both played in the Solheim Cup four times previously, Captain Angela Stanford might actually split them up and get them to put their arm around a less experienced player. Who knows? The only other possible pairing that I could see happening is the French connection. Anna Nordquist might give rookie Nastasia Nadeau a run with experienced Solheim Cup compatriot Celine Boutier. So yeah, as far as the pairings go, that's pretty much all I've got. We're going to talk about the singles. The singles we talked about earlier, Paul. It is a bit of a lottery in the sense that I think Charlie would love to play Nellie Corda head to head. She wants that. She's like, bring that on. But does Anna Nordquist put her out number one? And Charlie's hoping that Angela Stanford's done the same thing with Nellie Corda. Because you're either going to stack the front half or you're going to have the anchor. If your team is down, you're more likely going into that singles to front load to get some momentum to get some of your colour on the board. And let's say the Americans were down going into the singles, they're likely to do that because they're going to want to quieten the crowd down. But by the same token, if Europe are down and they can get some blue on the scoreboard earlier and get them right behind it. So it's a real interesting balance, isn't it? And I don't think we're going to be able to predict it accurately what the singles draw's going to be or where those ranked players are going to be until we know how the match stands after day two.
SPEAKER_00What do you think, James? I mean, Yeah, I mean you look look at the history of all these sorts of events. You know, the captains don't necessarily pick, they might have an idea who they want. Even from Friday morning to say Friday afternoon, someone might have an absolute shocker in the morning, and it's like that will biff you into touch for the afternoon. So it's it's just fluid, it's always changing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And that's what makes it exciting. Of course it does. It's gonna be great to watch. I mean, what do you think, Paul? You got anything on the singles?
SPEAKER_03Look, I'm just gonna say one thing, and that is that I wish Anna Norquist was playing. Yeah. I wish she was playing, I wish she had put herself down as a player. I think her against Nellie Corda would just be a phenomenal game. Yeah, look, Charlie Hull playing against Nellie Corda, maybe that's what everybody wants. But hey, stranger things have happened. You put one of the rookies out there, or you put Mimi Rhodes out against Nellie Corda, suddenly the pressure's on Nellie Corda, you know. Yeah. I think Nellie Corda would love to play against Charlie Hull because she knows Charlie Hull, she knows what to expect. But then you suddenly put somebody up against Nellie Corda that everybody expects based on world rankings, you know, just inside the top hundred against the world number one, and everybody's going, what chances she got?
SPEAKER_00I just want it to be close going into the final singles. I think that's what you want.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. What do you think now? Any more on the single side of things? It's just a wait and see, isn't it? It's wait-and see, like you say.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like James said, who's on form, who's playing well? And I think ideally you go out strong early, then you have some strong players at the end. But like I say, you've got to see how the tournament's going and how people are playing.
SPEAKER_02I did think when I first started looking at this, I thought, yeah, the USA gonna run away with this. But the more I've looked into it and the more I've worked out the stats and had a look, I think it's gonna be close, boys. I do. I don't think it is gonna be a runaway. I think this could be a really exciting event to watch. And I'm gonna be first to put my neck on the line. I've got to come up with a prediction. I am going to predict Europe wins this 15-13. That is my point prediction. I'm going a European win 15-13. I just think the Dutch fans and the European fans around there, well, if the Europeans can do well in the first kind of day and a half, then I think that they'll really get behind them and we know sports about momentum, boys, don't we? What about you, James? Where are you at?
SPEAKER_00I've gone USA 16, Europe 12. Okay. Yeah. I just think the Americans are just that little bit too strong. I'm going to go to Paul.
SPEAKER_03Where are you at? USA to win. Points? I'm not going to give you any points. I'm just going to say that they're going to win. So they're not going to retain. They're going to win. They're not going to retain. They're going to win.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But I don't want to specifically say a particular points differential. Yes. I'm just going to say US to win. How's that splinter? Good. Sell the fence.
SPEAKER_02On the fence, isn't he? He's on the fence. USA. He's on the fence. Okay. You're going USA. James has gone USA. So it's two USA. Myself, I said Europe. Neil. Who are you going for, buddy?
SPEAKER_01I was going to throw a tie in there just to mix it up. No, no, no. No, I'm going to go USA 15, 13. I think the key's going to be maybe those captain's picks.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01Zhang and Kang. I think if they perform, that could be the difference.
SPEAKER_02We're all hoping that we're going to see some great golf. I'm sure we will do. We're not really worried who wins. But as long as it's played in the spirit that it's supposed to be, then hey, it's going to be a fantastic Solheim Cup. So, boys, look, that brings us to the end of our preview. I really enjoyed your insights, and honestly, I'm even more excited now to watch this event and see how it all plays out. To our listeners, we hope you finish this episode slightly more knowledgeable than you were 30 minutes ago, and that you're just as pumped up as we are now to watch the Solheim Cup. We'll be back next time with our President's Cup preview. But until then, fellas, that's a wrap. Cheers, mate. Cheers, Tommy. If you've made it this far, we hope it's because you've enjoyed listening to Tommy Does Golf. To make sure you never miss our podcast, please hit follow. For more of our content or to get in touch, head to TommyDuzGolf.com. So until next time, no matter how you're playing, smile, laugh, and most important of all, enjoy the walk.