I am simply leaving the Netherlands and Bernardus Golf, the place we had workforce follow the final two days.
With two qualifying tournaments left and nonetheless so much on the road, I introduced 11 women to the Solheim Cup venue this week to play the course and hang around collectively.
I am excited to see a whole lot of the exhausting work and planning fall into place and now the Solheim Cup is simply two months away, you’ll be able to inform everyone seems to be getting just a little extra critical about it – each the thrill and anticipation is constructing.
I used to be joined by my vice-captain Anne van Dam and workforce helper Becky Brewerton within the Netherlands. It positive takes a village to make this occur and I’m very grateful for everybody providing their assist and help to Group Europe.
I like everybody’s vitality and enthusiasm coming right here, particularly coming right here straight after taking part in our fourth main of the yr, the Amundi Evian Championship, final week!
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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the Amundi Evian Championship, the place Haeran Ryu claimed victory in dramatic vogue
As a European, all of us embrace this time of yr “finally” coming house for a European stretch of tournaments and having the ability to go house in between the tournaments.
We had a whole lot of European success on the Evian and I am wanting ahead to following the ladies for the ultimate two qualifying occasions, the ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open and the AIG Girls’s Open.
The workforce might be finalised on Monday August 3, with my 4 captain’s picks introduced within the Sky Sports activities studio in London that day. There are a whole lot of exhausting telephone calls forward of me to make!
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Have a look again at a few of Anna Nordqvist’s finest pictures from her earlier Solheim Cup appearances
I am going to ship each excellent news to the gamers making it and never such excellent news to the gamers not getting a spot on the workforce this yr. We are actually one step nearer to the occasion and that’s very thrilling.
Anna Nordqvist’s column was supplied by the Girls European Tour forward of the Solheim Cup, stay from September 11-13 on Sky Sports activities. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract.
Group Europe because it stands and qualification defined
The European Group consists of the highest two gamers within the European Solheim Cup Group factors standings, the highest six gamers within the Rolex Girls’s World Golf Rankings not already eligible, and 4 captain’s picks.
European Solheim Cup Group factors standings are primarily based on factors earned in Girls European Tour sanctioned occasions, with Charley Hull and Chiara Tamburlini at present occupying these locations.
The subsequent six accessible gamers through their world rating are Lottie Woad (world No 5), Maja Stark (world No 24), Celine Boutier (world No 31), Carlota Ciganda (world No 43), Linn Grant (world No 45) and Esther Henseleit (world no 51).
Subsequent week’s ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open and the AIG Girls’s Open are the one remaining qualification occasions to earn factors, with Helen Briem (132 factors) and Agathe Laisne (111 factors) the subsequent two within the European Solheim Cup Group standings.
Nanna Koerstz Madsen (No 61) and Leona Maguire (No 82) are the subsequent two gamers on this planet rankings, with Nordqvist confirming her workforce subsequent month. Group USA will identify their line-up after the CPKC Girls’s Open on August 23.
