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Looking at that picture, I can match names, and faces to eight of those women. I would probably recognize the names of the rest if I heard them, but I couldn't match them up to a face. :confused2:
 
provisional said:
Looking at that picture, I can match names, and faces to eight of those women. I would probably recognize the names of the rest if I heard them, but I couldn't match them up to a face. :confused2:
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Beth Daniels (Capt.) in the blond in the middle. Meg Mallon (Asst.) is on the far (looker's) left. and Kelly Robbins (Asst.) is on the far right.

Does that help?
 
I love how involved all the players are already, the second they are officially on the team they're all together as a team. A little while ago there were pics on the LPGA.com Solheim Cup page of a scouting trip a lot of the US players secure in their ranking had taken. This is great to me, team unity should definitely NOT be a problem!!
 
My ticket came today!!!:blob::blob::blob:
I can not explain how excited I am about going to this tournament.
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Why is there always one blob that doesn't like me?
 
Thanks Harry!

Michelle Wie will be paired up with Brittany Lincicome and Morgan Pressel. That is the rumor anyway! Lincicome and Wie would be a crazy long hitting match! I actually think Michelle and Morgan for best ball could be great given Wie's length and Morgan's precision with the irons.
 
This should be a good old fashioned butt whuppin'. Daniel's choices are beyond criticism. Michelle has played far better than anyone else she could have selected and Juli's experience will prove invaluable imo... and she has has a better record recently than most anyone else Beth could have selected fwiw. I can't wait. GO USA !
 
The latest blog from Beth Daniels:

Sunday, August 9, 2009

The captain's picks have been made and I'm sure everyone will be discussing them for the next couple of weeks. I can honestly say that the 72 hour period of trying to decide who the picks were going to be was one of the most difficult experiences that Meg, Kelly and I have had in the past two years. There were so many scenarios of who could play their way onto the team in the final week because of the double points at the British Open. It's very difficult to tell players that they will not be on the team, but the three of us feel like we've made the two best choices for our team this year.

Our entire team flew to Chicago on Monday morning following the Sunday evening announcement of the teams. We had two great practice sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday and everybody was very relaxed and the stress was off. We had a lot of fun and got a lot of work done in our preparation for the upcoming event. Our Tuesday night team dinner was extra special because we surprised Paula Creamer for her birthday. She had no idea it was coming. They made a great pink and white cake for her with a white chocolate Solheim Cup in the middle. Morgan Pressel went out and bought lots of balloons and Paula tied them to the cart for her Wednesday practice round.


Beth Daniel and Nicole Castrale live on NBC Chicago's Morning Show.
The entire team loved Rich Harvest Farms and we are very excited to be back there in under two weeks. The staff at RHF took fantastic care of us, so good in fact that some of the players were asking if Jerry and Betty Rich would adopt them. Everyone has gone back home now to rest up and practice.

Meg Mallon, Nicole and Craig Castrale and I did a few media things in downtown Chicago on Thursday morning including meeting with Gov. Pat Quinn and some kids from the Kids Golf Foundation of Illinois in Grant Park. Gov. Quinn will be speaking at the Opening Ceremony and we are looking forward to seeing him again. Our entire team will return to Rich Harvest in just over a week and we hope to see you there cheering on Team USA.

Go USA!
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TV Coverage, I think it is weird that they are cutting out in the middle of a round for two hours to stream online and then returning, weird.

GolfChannel.com to live stream Day 1 of Solheim Cup

By GolfChannel.com Team
Posted: August 10, 2009
GolfChannel.com will live stream Day 1 of the Solheim Cup from 2-4 p.m. ET.

The biennial competition begins Friday, Aug. 21 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill. Golf Channel will provide televised coverage from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. GolfChannel.com will then take over live coverage for two hours, before the network returns at 4 p.m. for the conclusion of play.

Golf Channel will broadcast all three days of the event, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. ET Saturday and 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ET Sunday.

The Solheim Cup is the women’s version of the Ryder Cup, in which 12 Americans compete against 12 European-born players over three days of match-play competition.

The first two days will consist of both four-ball (better ball) and foursomes (alternate shot), with Sunday being 12 singles matches.
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That is odd, maybe they're just trying to boost their website up a little bit in the process. I haven't heard of golfchannel.com having live coverage before. Regardless, thanks for the info Soxy!!!
 
I thought so too Soxy. They had a prior commitment on the schedule according to TGC PR. If it ends up being The Hammer, I will be upset.
 
Great Inkster article:
At 49, Juli Inkster has passion to play

By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
Posted: August 04, 2009
Juli Inkster doesn’t believe everything she reads, even if she’s the one who said it.

Perhaps the most significant of her seven majors was the U.S. Women’s Open in 1999, the biggest event in her sport and one that eluded her for a decade. Inkster was 39, the mother of two young girls, and ready to split time coaching fifth-grade basketball, baking brownies and dabbling on the LPGA Tour.

Juli Inkster poses for a portrait following her Solheim Cup selection to the U.S. team. (Getty Images)
“My goal right now is to play on the Solheim Cup in 2000,” she said after the Open win. “After that … I just really foresee myself playing 10 to 12 tournaments a year. I’m going to have a first-grader and a fifth-grader, and it’s just getting harder and harder to take them out.”

The quote was read to Inkster as she was getting off a plane Monday in Chicago, where she was headed out to Rich Harvest Farms with the rest of the American team for a practice session. At 49, she will be the oldest player in Solheim Cup history.

“This is a very good opportunity for something to be reiterated,” Inkster said, trying to stifle her laughter. “Don’t believe everything you read. You can’t believe that just because I said it. I don’t know what I’m doing.”

She knows exactly what she’s doing. She just doesn’t know how to stop, if she even wants to.

Inkster doesn’t need a birth certificate to realize how long she has been grinding at golf. She doesn’t even need to be reminded what she said 10 years ago about the alleged twilight of her career.

All she has to do is look around her to see who else is dressed in red, white and blue.

U.S. captain Beth Daniel used one of her picks on Inkster, the other on 19-year-old Michelle Wie. Inkster had already won three majors and was pregnant with her first daughter when Wie was born in Hawaii. Also on the team is 20-year-old Morgan Pressel and 23-year-old Paula Creamer.

Inkster has a daughter starting her sophomore year at Loyola Marymount.

“The thing is, 1999 doesn’t seem that long ago,” Inkster said. “When I first started, I thought I would play three or four years and I’d be out of here quick. And here I am, 49, still playing. But you know what? I like what I do. So I do it. I guess I could stay home and drive my kids and my husband crazy, but we all work at it together.”

If there was a crossroads, it came in the months after her first child, Hayley, was born. Inkster was trying to combine being a mother with being a professional golfer, and neither was going particularly well.

“I was not doing very good at the golf thing, I didn’t think I was doing any good at the Mommy thing, and I always (stunk) at the wife thing,” she said. “I felt like I wasn’t doing anything great. That offseason, I started working with Mike McGetrick. I said, ‘If I’m doing to do this, there’s got to be some type of plan to get me on the right track.

“It took until Hayley was 2 when I realized that as long as she’s with me, it doesn’t matter.”

Cori came along four years later, and by then, Inkster realized her kids were doing just fine. She earned her way back to the Solheim Cup in 1998, where she delivered one of her biggest moments (followed by one of her many awful dance celebrations).

Inkster and Meg Mallon were 1 up when Liselotte Neumann hit a spectacular shot from a deep, front bunker to about a foot from the hole in the back right of the green. Inkster had a 40-foot putt to halve the hole. Her 8-year-old daughter was watching.

“Late in the day on Saturday, I had Hayley in the cart with me,” said Judy Rankin, the U.S. captain at Muirfield Village. “We pulled up on top of the hill to get a good look at the green on No. 17. Juli made a bomb—whenever you see her dancing in those highlights, that was the putt—and it was sheer pandemonium. There were probably 25,000 people watching this one match.”

Walking off the 18th green after a 2-and-1 victory, Hayley said to her mother, “Now I know why you do what you do.”

Rankin, who has been a part of the LPGA Tour for nearly 50 years, has rarely seen another player as competitive in women’s golf.

Inkster completed the career Grand Slam in 1999, was inducted into the Hall of Fame a year later, and won her final major in 2002 when she overcame a two-shot deficit against Annika Sorenstam with a 66 in the final round at Prairie Dunes.

She has had to make sacrifices to achieve greatness, but not her family.

“She couldn’t tell you who was the president of the United States, but she knows where her kids are at all times,” Dottie Pepper said. “She’s a super mom.”

The focus shifts to golf Aug. 21-23 at the Solheim Cup, her eighth appearance, and possibly the most difficult. Inkster brings experience to a U.S. team that has three rookies and four players who have played only one Solheim Cup.

“I hope they brought me on this team to play some golf,” she said.

That part has been a struggle. Inkster has yet to finish in the top 10 this year, which would be a first since joining the LPGA Tour in 1984. She tried too hard to make the team on her own, and part of her summer was consumed with being on the LPGA board of directors, which forced out commissioner Carolyn Bivens.

How much longer can she play?

“Let’s worry about this one,” Inkster said, “and then we’ll talk about it.”
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Juli is one my faves on the LPGA. Thanks for sharing that article.
 
JB said:
I thought so too Soxy. They had a prior commitment on the schedule according to TGC PR. If it ends up being The Hammer, I will be upset.
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Prior commitment?!?!?

They've know about the Solheim for what . . . more than two years!!!

According to the DirecTV online guide, the 2 hours is for the second round of the PGA's Wyndham Championship.
 
My thoughts exactly Harry. I guess its a prior commitment to the PGA or to higher ratings? I have no idea
 
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My thoughts exactly Harry. I guess its a prior commitment to the PGA or to higher ratings? I have no idea
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Well, televising the PGA is a somewhat legitimate excuse. But I'm ignoring that legitimacy because I like the LPGA more and the Solheim is more important than a standard PGA event that will probably have a weak field.
 
That was a fabulous article, Soxy. Thanks for posting it.
 
The LPGA has put up mini bios for each player and captain of the Solheim Cup teams, here are the links:

US Team

European Team
 
Thank you Sox!!! I was hoping to schedule a work from home day during Solheim Cup Friday but it didn't work out in my favor....I'll be online with all my fellow hackers and we'll be tuning in together!
 
It is almost here...

TheChristinaKim: Waking up to the knowledge that the official Solheim stuff starts tomorrow is pretty incredible. Gotta love it
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suzannpettersen: Last little work on my game this morning, then ill be ready to take the yanks down.. Another great day, new goals, new challenges...
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the goodies begin...

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I am getting ready for Solheim!!!
 
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soxngolf said:
I am getting ready for Solheim!!!
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First the contest entry photo and now your naked feet . . .

Spoiler
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."


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Still SO jealous.
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Really wish I could go.

Ah well, maybe in 4 years.

Will you have time to give us updates while you are there?
 
Harry Longshanks said:
First the contest entry photo and now your naked feet . . .
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Haha, for you wouldn't it be better if I were wearing knee socks?

I will do my best to post an update. I can't have a camera or phone etc while I am there, but will post from my iPhone ASAP.

I am so excited!:blob:

GO USA!!
 
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