Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, golf fans will get to watch the Solheim Cup in consecutive years.
The competition between women’s teams from the U.S. and Europe traditionally happens every other year. But after the 2020 Ryder Cup was postponed a year because of the pandemic, moving the men’s event to odd-numbered years, the Solheim Cup is being played in consecutive years to get on an even-year schedule.
That means the U.S. squad didn’t have to wait as long to try to wrestle the Cup away from the Europeans, who retained the trophy with a 14-14 tie in Finca Cortesin, Spain, last year.
“We got some unfinished business,” world No. 1 golfer Nelly Korda said this week.
Although the U.S. has won 10 of the 18 competitions, it hasn’t come out on top since a 16½-11½ victory at Des Moines Golf & Country Club in Iowa in 2017.
“Some people have asked me what one word would be to describe Team USA this year, and I’m just going to say ‘hungry,’ because Nelly and I obviously being on the same amount of Solheim Cups and not necessarily getting the job done last year, kind of leaves not necessarily…
