Romeo and Talley beat Lily Hirst and Davina Xanh, 4&2, as Jasmine Koo and Farah O’Keefe, three-up after seven, held on to beat Charlotte Naughton and Nellie Ong 2 up.<\/p>\n
But after the exertions of their US Women’s Open efforts, where Romero was sixth behind Nelly Korda and Talley an impressive 22nd, they ran out of steam against McDonald-O’Brien and Kirkistown Castle star Coulter, who claimed Great Britain and Ireland’s lone win in the afternoon foursomes.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, they did play in the morning, so we definitely had the advantage of having a little bit more energy,” said Coulter, who played on the team that won at Sunningdale in 2024 and hopes to help GB&I to its first away win for 40 years.<\/p>\n
“We used that to our advantage in the back. We kept saying it to each other, and we had a lot of fun out there.”<\/p>\n
“It obviously held us in good stead this afternoon on the back. They had obviously played a lot more holes than we had, and that was important for us to remind ourselves.”<\/p>\n
The 4-2 scoreline is not what skipper Catriona Matthew had in mind, but she saw encouraging signs and aims to win both sessions today.<\/p>\n
“There was some great golf out there,” she said. “I thought our team really fought well, hung in well. And they fought till the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There were no real big blowouts, which it could have been after being three or four down after a few holes.<\/p>\n
“As I say, they fought well and just need to keep doing a bit more of that tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
Coulter and McDonald-O’Brien are clear on what they need to do today against O’Keefe and Jasmine Koo in the opening foursomes.<\/p>\n
“I think getting out there and getting off to a hot start,” Coulter said. “Obviously, the Americans did it this morning. I think that’s what we’ll be trying to do tomorrow. We’ve got a target, and we’re obviously going to strive towards it.”<\/p>\n
The USA has also not lost on home soil since 1986 at Prairie Dunes, when Mary McKenna, Claire Hourihane and Lillian Behan.<\/p>\n
At the LPGA’s Dow Championship in Michigan, Leona Maguire and Lindy Duncan shot a one-under 69 and Lauren Walsh and Celine Herbin a 67 to make the cut on the three-under limit.<\/p>\n
They go into the third round tied for 25th, nine shots behind Norway’s Celine Borge and Germany’s Polly Mack, who shot a 10-under 60 to lead by a shot on 12-under from Japan’s Ayaka Furue and Yuna Nishimura (61) and by two from world number one Nelly Korda and Germany’s Olivia Cowan, who also shot 60.<\/p>\n
” Obviously, we’re all zoned in and trying to perform our best, but there was a little bit less pressure than alternate shot,” Korda said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romeo and Talley beat Lily Hirst and Davina Xanh, 4&2, as Jasmine Koo and Farah O’Keefe, three-up after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-497734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}