SUNNINGDALE, England — Mimi Rhodes rallied from a 3-down deficit and holed an 18-foot par putt that secured the half-point Nice Britain and Eire wanted to win the Curtis Cup towards the Individuals on Sunday, its first time capturing the cup in eight years.
GB&I wound up with a ten 1/2 to 9 1/2 victory at Sunningdale and made Catriona Matthew the primary successful captain of the Curtis Cup for amateurs and the Solheim Cup for professionals.
“They actually dug in daily,” Matthew stated. “It didn’t appear to be it was going our method at this time, however they actually toughed it out. It checked out one level it was all pink (scores). We performed properly on the again 9 all week and that basically got here out.”
The Individuals, trailing 7-5 going into the eight singles matches, led early in 5 of the opening six matches and picked up its first level when 15-year-old Asterisk Talley took down Lottie Woad, the No. 1 participant within the girls’s newbie rating.
GB&I confirmed its resolve, notably Rhodes.
Her sister, Endurance Rhodes, had given GB&I its first level with a 6-and-5 win over Zoe Campos. Sara Byrne accomplished an unbeaten week (2-0-3) with a 3-and-2 win over Catherine Park.
Mimi Rhodes, 3 down after seven holes, rallied to take a 1-up lead with a birdie on the par-5 14th. Two matches behind her, Lorna McClymont had seized management over Megan Schofill, and it was clear the decisive level would come right down to Rhodes and Inexperienced.
Rhodes pulled her tee shot properly left on the par-4 seventeenth and had no alternative however to pitch again to the golf green. She hit her third to 18 ft beneath the cup. Inexperienced tugged her method to about 40 ft and two-putted for par. Rhodes made the massive putt to halve the opening and keep 1 up going to the 18th, assuring the half-point for GB&I.
That grew to become the winner when moments later, McClymont tapped in for par on the sixteenth gap for a 3-and-2 victory.
GB&I final received the Curtis Cup in Eire in 2016. The Individuals nonetheless lead, 33-9-3, in a sequence that dates to 1932.
