Solheim Cup live scoreboard http://www.solheimcup.de/en/livescoring/sc/
It is just after 6pm Saturday evening just outside Frankfurt in Germany and I can report the US Team who are trailing 8-4 are leading in 3 of the 4 fourball matches and are making a match of it.
Lets's recap. After splitting the opening foursomes on Friday morning, they didn't win a match in the weather delayed fourballs, losing 2 and halving 2 in the rain earlier this morning. When today's foursomes got under way European won 3 of the 4 matches, led by Carlota Ciganda, Charley Hull who has inspired her partner Suzanne Pettersen, the ageless wee Scot Catriona Matthew and her towering partner Sandra Gal who is having the weekend of her life in front of her German fans.
Europe led 8-4 in front of 20,000 fans and a world wide TV audience and were firmly in charge going into lunch.
However this afternoon the momentum has swung their way so far though you can see from the leaderboard all four matches are very close, but the European women are finally missing some putts while the Americans are making.
The Europeans are in white slacks, hats, shoes with pink shirts and powder blue sweaters while the US team are in dark blue bottoms and white shirts.
Lexi Thompson and Cristie Kerr have just beat the Spanish pair Munoz and Ciganda 3 and 2 for a point making the score 8-5.
Charley Hull really switched on the emotion for the Europeans this morning and fired up a strangely subdued partner Pettersen, with a near hole in 1 at the par 3 12th which began a comeback from 4 down against Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel who ended up losing the match on the 18th, 1up. Afterwards Pettersen said her 19 year old partner "has a head of steel and is fearless".
It will be too dark to complete play today, they have until about 730pm local time so will be back early in the morning to finish, before playing the 12 singles.
At least with this fight back the Americans have a chance to get back into it, which would set Sunday up for the exciting finish the Solheim Cup has provided over the last two matches, both won by the Europeans.
Bryan Angus
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