{"id":499016,"date":"2026-06-14T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499016\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:38:07","slug":"curtis-cup-great-britain-and-ireland-seek-early-sunday-success-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499016\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Cup: Great Britain and Ireland seek early Sunday success &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Kiara Romero and Asterisk Talley birdied five of their last seven holes to beat Lily Hirst and Nelly Ong 4&amp;3 and while Sophia Fullbrook and Patience Rhodes birdied four of the last nine holes to beat Anna Davis and Avery Weed 3&amp;2, Beth Coulter and Isla McDonald lost their tight morning fourballs 1 up to Jasmine Koo and the outstanding Farah O\u2019Keefe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It meant GB&amp;I lost the session 2-1, making it 6-3 to the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">But the visitors, who are seeking only their second away and the first for 40 years, took the afternoon foursomes session 2-1 to make it 7-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Charlotte Naughton and Davina Xanh beat Americans Anna Davis and Asterisk Talley 3&amp;2 and Sophia Fullbrook and Patience Rhodes held off Kelly Xu and Kary Hollenbaugh to win 2 up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">But Coulter and McDonald O\u2019Brien fell 4&amp;3 to Avery Weed and O\u2019Keefe, who can become just the fourth player in Curtis Cup history to go 5-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Coulter will play in the anchor singles for GB&amp;I as Rhodes, Fullbrook, Ong and McDonald-O\u2019Brien play in the first four matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe&#8217;ve got to win early,\u201d skipper Matthew said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiara Romero and Asterisk Talley birdied five of their last seven holes to beat Lily Hirst and Nelly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-499016","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\/499016","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=499016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}