EUROPE WINS FOURBALLS TO TIE MATCH AT 8-8 

It was a super Saturday for Europe as the home side made another incredible fightback in the fourballs at Finca Cortesin in Spain. 

Carrying a two-point deficit, with America leading 7-5 after the teams tied the morning foursomes, the home team made a strong start in the afternoon.

The standard of golf from both teams was exceptional, but in the end, the session ended 3-1 in favour of Europe and tied at 8-8 overall going into the 12 singles matches on Sunday.

“I’m out of words. You have to remember, we’re not there. There are 12 points up for grabs tomorrow.

We made quite a comeback and now we’re tied. We just keep going,” European Captain Suzann Pettersen said. “This is like climbing a mountain, but coming back down is just as important. We’re going to regroup before we go to bed and we’ll be ready tomorrow morning.”

Charley Hull and Leona Maguire def. Nelly Korda and Ally Ewing 4 and 3

In the first match of the afternoon, featuring Charley Hull and Leona Maguire against Nelly Korda and Ally Ewing, Europe won the first match to close within one of the US.

The duo won the second, fourth, seventh and eighth holes with birdies to go four up over the visitors.

The Europeans lost the 10^th but a birdie from Maguire on the par-3 12^th saw the pair move to 4 up again.

Hull’s par putt on the 15^th green was conceded to see the Europeans win the match 4 and 3 taking the overall tally to 7-6 in America’s favour.

Hull and Maguire also won their fourball match when they played together on the first day of the Solheim Cup in Toledo two years ago as part of the victorious European team – and they also played on the same Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team as amateurs – back in 2012.

Maguire said: “I think this was a pairing, me and Charley. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. We nearly played the Dow earlier in the year, didn’t quite work with the schedules to manage to do that, so it was nice to get out early and perform on the board.

“Suzann was pretty clear of what our job was today, so mission accomplished so far. 

“We knew we had to bring our A games this afternoon. So, yeah, just played really solid and didn’t really give them a chance to fight back at all.”

Hull said: “Leona kind of started us off pretty strong.  She played brilliant today and you couldn’t really break her down.”

On her pairing, she added: “I like it, because we’re both not really like hyper, how do I explain it,…