{"id":843207,"date":"2026-09-10T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843207\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:24:09","slug":"2026-solheim-cup-day-1-foursomes-matchups-starting-times-nelly-korda-allisen-corpuz-reunite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843207\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Solheim Cup Day 1 foursomes matchups, starting times: Nelly Korda, Allisen Corpuz reunite"},"content":{"rendered":"

CROMVOIRT, Netherlands \u2013 U.S. Solheim Cup captain Angela Stanford had at least one easy decision for Friday morning\u2019s opening foursomes session at Bernardus Golf.<\/p>\n

Nelly Korda and Allisen Corpuz have teamed to go 2-0 in the alternate-shot format in each of the past two editions, in 2023 and 2024, and the American super duo will reunited for a fifth time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like if I didn\u2019t put those two out, I would be questioned,\u201d Stanford said with a laugh. \u201cI feel like the whole world knew that they were coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Korda, the world No. 1, and Corpuz will draw Charley Hull, a veteran of now eight Solheim Cups, and Lottie Woad, who despite her rookie status is Europe\u2019s top-ranked player at No. 7 in the world. The four players in the first match have an average world rank of 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be worried if it weren\u2019t these two players,\u201d Stanford added. \u201cLook, we can talk about Nelly, and we can talk about her being the No. 1 player in the world, but don\u2019t sleep on Allisen. Allisen, I\u2019ve called her the backbone of our team. She\u2019s pretty tough. Yeah, so that dynamic, there\u2019s a lot of good things going on in that pairing that, you know, they just complement each other really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hull was on losing end against Korda and Corpuz in 2024\u2019s opening foursomes session, as she and Esther Henseleit lost, 3 and 2.<\/p>\n

Korda is 6-2 for her Solheim foursomes career, while Hull is 6-3-1 despite playing with five different partners. Hull is 2-1-1 against Korda in any format; they most recently met in singles in 2024, when Hull routed Korda, 6 and 4.<\/p>\n

Lauren Coughlin and Rose Zhang earned an opening foursomes point together over Celine Boutier and Albane Valenzuela in 2024 before Zhang was replaced with Lexi Thompson for a Saturday-foursomes defeat. Coughlin will now team with Alison Lee against Boutier and Nanna Koerstz Madsen while Zhang will pair with Jennifer Kupcho opposite Maja Stark and Linn Grant.<\/p>\n

\u201cNanna and Celine, they wanted to play the team event on the LPGA together this year, and they really liked the pairing and they\u2019re good friends, so I didn\u2019t see why not to pick them,\u201d European captain Anna Nordqvist said. \u201cMaja and Linn, I mean, they played so much amateur golf together and they\u2019re really good friends, so they know each other really well, so I think that was another pairing that felt really natural.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stark and Grant, who went 1-1 as a foursomes pair in 2023, are the only one of Europe\u2019s four partnerships on Friday morning with previous experience together. The U.S. also has just one familiar pair, Korda and Corpuz.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has outscored Europe in foursomes just three times in the last 14 Solheim Cups (2007, 2023, 2024). Europe leads the all-time foursomes series, 72.5-68.5.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt started in Spain,\u201d said Stanford, crediting the team\u2019s stats guru, Justin Ray. \u201cThat was kind of the first time we started using stats and data to figure out the foursomes, and it\u2019s helped us. You still have to have that little bit of chemistry, too. … We\u2019ve had a couple times where you want two players to play together because number-wise they should be off the charts, but they don\u2019t want to be out there together. Not this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is a complete list of Friday morning\u2019s foursomes matchups, starting times, which are listed in ET. The teams will compete in four fourballs (better ball) matches in Friday\u2019s second session.<\/p>\n

1:40AM: Allisen Corpuz\/Nelly Korda (U.S.) vs. Charley Hull\/Lottie Woad (EUR)1:52AM: Alison Lee\/Lauren Coughlin (U.S.) vs. Nanna Koerstz Madsen\/Celine Boutier (EUR)2:04AM: Andrea Lee\/Lindy Duncan vs. Esther Henseleit\/Leona Maguire (EUR)2:16AM: Rose Zhang\/Jennifer Kupcho vs. Maja Stark\/Linn Grant (EUR)<\/p>\n

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Here are all of the details on how to watch the Solheim Cup, beginning at 1:30 a.m. ET on Sept. 11 at Bernardus Golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CROMVOIRT, Netherlands \u2013 U.S. Solheim Cup captain Angela Stanford had at least one easy decision for Friday morning\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-843207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}