All square 4-4 after Day1 at Solheim Cup 2026...live scoreboard

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Five of Europe's seven Solheim Cup victories have arrived on home soil

Its time for one of the golfing world's most exciting events, the Solheim Cup this week in (Holland) the Netherlands at Bernardus GC. Click on my Leaderboard for live scoring

FORMAT/ RESULTS Friday Foursomes 

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USA    2                       Europe 2

Corpuz/ Korda  4&3  Hull / Woad

Lee/ Coughlin  3&2  Madsen/ Boutier

Zang / Kupcho  3&2  Stark / Grant

Lee / Duncan    2up   Henseleit/ Maguire 

Friday Fourballs Final 4-4

Noh/ Yin   vs Tied   Hull/ Woad

Khang/Lee 5&3   vs  Madsen / Boutier

Corpuz/Kim  vs 2&1  Rhodes / Nadaud

Korda/ Coughlin  Tied  Ciganda/ Ramirez

SUMMARY

After 4 foursomes and 4 fourballs we are all square 4-4 after a full Friday in Holland.

Europe

Anna Nordqvist captain,  Caroline Hedwall, Mel Reid, Ann Van Dam Vice Captains

Top 2 players LET,  Top 6 players owgr, 4 players Captain's picks

Charley Hull (Eng) Esther Henseleit (Ger) Lottie Woad (Eng) Maja Stark (Swe) 

Celine Boutier (Fr) Carlota Ciganda (Sp), Linn Grant (Swe) Nanna Koerstz Marsden (Den)

Leona MaGuire (Ire)  Julia Lopez Ramirez (Sp)  Nastasia Nadaud (Fr)  Mimi Rhodes (Eng)

USA

Angela Stanford captain,  Kristy McPherson, Paula Creamer, Brittany Lang Vice Captains

7 players LPGA points list, 2 players owgr, 3 players Captain's picks

Nelly Korda, Angel Yin, Jennifer Kupcho, Yealimi Noh 

Auston Kim, Lauren Coughlin, Allisen Corpuz, Andrea Lee

Alison Lee, Lindy Duncan. Megan Khang, Rose Zhang

Played with the same format as the Ryder Cup, 2 matches, 8 foursomes, 8 fourballs then 12 singles on Sunday, its Europe vs USA for the 20th time, first staged in Florida in 1990 named after club manufacturer Karl Solheim along with his wife Louise, the founder and driving force behind the event.

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Friday under way Amgen Irish Open...Live scoreboard

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Joaquin Niemann begins Friday in the lead after he produced a late birdie burst to card a -5 65 after day one of the Amgen Irish Open.  He is in the late wave at 13.35hrs today.

The Chilean playing on a sponsors exemption, made four birdies in a row from the 14th to -5 and set the target at Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Ireland, Doonbeg on a day when the wind made scoring difficult.

FRIDAY

BBC WEATHER : Sunny intervals 18*/14* and a gentle breeze, 8km/h -11km/h WSW.

** Rory -2, Shane Lowry -4, Patrick Reed -2, Jon Rahm -1 are all out early after getting the worst of the wind late on Thursday.

** Scoring is easier, early Richard Mansell is -6 thru 11 so far for example.

** The front nine were the easiest on Thursday, downwind on several holes with this WSW wind, the back nine is into the wind

** Tides, 1st high tide 5.18am (5 meters)  1st low tide 11.15am (0.8 meters)

               2nd high tide 17.30 hrs (5.24 meters)  2nd low tide 23.43hrs (0.39 meters)

Generally the wind gets up as the tide comes in, so the early round catch the tide going out this morning when its calmer.

You can see the late round has the tide coming in during the afternoon.

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Chilean LIV star Niemann leads very windy Amgen Irish Open...18 hole results..

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Joaquin Niemann produced a late birdie burst to card a -5 65 and lead the way after day one of the Amgen Irish Open.

The Chilean playing on a sponsors exemption, made four birdies in a row from the 14th to -5 and set the target at Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Ireland, Doonbeg on a day when the wind made scoring difficult.

The conditions also led to unavoidable delays and some players will have to return early on day two to complete their opening rounds.

Home hero and 2009 champion Shane Lowry was in the clubhouse after completing his -3 67 in the fading light and he sat two shots back alongside South African Shaun Norris.

Polish star, Adrian Meronk - the 2022 champion - Austrian Maximilian Steinlechner and Italian Renato Paratore were also at -3  with holes still to play.

Niemann who plays LIV,  has played a limited DP World Tour schedule in 2026 but has three top tens in his last four DP World Tour starts, including a best Major finish of a T7 at the U.S. Open. 

Since 2024 he has 9 wins on LIV...

And he revealed he was relishing the conditions on the County Clare coast as he looks for a second DP World Tour title after his win at the ISPS HANDA Australian pen in the 2024 season.

"It was a lot of fun out there," he said. "It's a really tricky course and a really fun golf course to play with. Especially with the Irish weather. Yeah, getting used to this weather and the rain so yeah, it was fun.

"It's definitely a good challenge. You've got to hit those tee shots and keep it under the wind, left-to-right wind, right-to-left wind.

"I was talking with my caddie, like every shot into the wind just times a hundred probably. So if it's a bad shot, it's a really bad shot. But if it's a good shot, it was so nice to see it. You know, it's just sexy, you know, hitting eight iron, seven iron from 120, 130 yards is fun."

He added: "I feel like there's so much I need to learn about my game and so much I need to improve. But I am just on that highway. I'm committed to get better and better every time. And I know I can. I know that there's a lot of room for improvement so, yeah, I'm happy where it is right now, but there's a lot to work on." 

Meronk made six birdies and three bogeys in his first 15 holes, Steinlechner had an eagle, three birdies and two bogeys through 13 and Paratore had six holes to complete having made four birdies with a single dropped shot.

Race to Dubai Rankings leader Patrick Reed carded a -2 68 to sit alongside home hero Tom McKibbin, Spaniard Rafa Cabrera Bello, Kiwi Kazuma Kobori, Frenchman Frederic Lacroix, Dane Niklas Nørgaard and Scot Connor Syme.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy was then in the group at -1 69 having completed his first round.

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Play under way at Amgen Irish Open....Live scoreboard

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" Irish sport is amazing, we're a small country, I feel like we punch above our weight in many sports, and we're certainly great people at getting behind or Sports people" Shane Lowry, 2009 Irish Open Champion.

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Katie Taylor won Olympic gold in 2012

82,000 Irish men and women packed Croke Park to watch their legendary boxer Katie Taylor, now 40 beat Flora Pili to retire as an all time two weight world boxing champion on September 6.

This weekend not far from Doonbeg GC at a sold out Lahinch GC GB&Ire staged the greatest comeback in Walker Cup history, winning the Sunday afternoon singles 7-3 to beat heavily favoured USA 13.5 to 12.5 led by Ireland's 33 year old Stuart Grehan who beat the world #1 amateur Preston Stout twice in the matches.

Former Champion, Padraig Harrington is playing his 31st Irish Open, "It's the first won I circle to play every year, I think they'll love me still, even if I play rubbish"

Rory is here defending his title, his eagle at the 72nd hole last year to force the playoff which he won, brought Ireland to it's collective knees.

This is the setting this morning as one of the European Tour's best tournaments got under way,  the Amgen Irish Open, on this difficult modern links style Trump International Golf Links formerly Doonbeg GC

Rory is playing it for the first time, "Tough opening holes with the water on the left, and the wind, tough closing holes as well" , he is in the late wave.

His Ryder Cup colleague Sepp Straka leads -4 through 9 holes with 6 players at -3.

more to follow....

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Rory the Story back in Ireland this week...Close look at player pairings

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Rory McIlroy will begin his title defence at the Amgen Irish Open alongside Ryder Cup teammate Robert MacIntyre and fellow Major champion Brooks Koepka.

With the PGA Tour finished, guys like #1 Scott Scheffler on holiday until January 2027 (except Presidents Cup in Chicago) the world of golf continues it's rich tradition on the DP World Tour.

The World Number Two, who is targeting a third national open title on the island of Ireland, is the headline act this week as the Back 9 continues with the DP World Tour making a first visit to Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Ireland, Doonbeg.

Alongside MacIntyre and tournament invite Koepka, the star trio will tee off the first on Thursday at 13:35pm before beginning their second round off the same hole at 09:30 on Friday.

Ten minutes later, another home hero in Shane Lowry, a winner of this event as an amateur in 2009, is joined by two-time champion Jon Rahm and Patrick Reed, who leads the Race to Dubai Rankings.

With one of the strongest fields assembled in the tournament's recent history there are a number of eye-catching groups over the opening two day's scheduled play on the west coast of Ireland.

Sepp Straka, one of seven European Ryder Cup players from 2025 in action, is in a three-ball with Ireland's Seamus Power and Joaquin Niemann of Chile at 09:30am on day one.

In the immediate group after, Pádraig Harrington will start his 31st consecutive appearance at his national open, the longest uninterrupted streak since the event began in 1975, in the company of Tyrrell Hatton and Eugenio Chacarra, a two-time winner this season.

The tournament marks the third event in Team Europe's qualification process for next year's Ryder Cup at Adare Manor and Captain Luke Donald is grouped with Alex Fitzpatrick and Tom McKibbin as they begin their challenge at 13:15.

Rasmus Højgaard, champion at this event at Royal County Down in 2024, will start his week alongside Haotong Li and Thomas Detry at 2pm, while his twin brother Nicolai is also among the afternoon wave on Thursday alongside last week's winner Thriston Lawrence and Masters champion Sergio Garcia at 1:25pm.

For a full list of tee times, click here.

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TEE TIMES/ Weather forecast Amgen Irish Open

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The Back 9 continues this week as Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg, hosts an impressive field at the Amgen Irish Open for the first time. 

BBC WEATHER

Considering the gales that can lash this coast, Mother Nature is co-operating this week except for Saturday with very moderate SW breezes, light rain and sunny breaks as well. 

Locals will remind foreign visitors that the breeze tends to get up with the incoming tide, and subside as it ebbs.

Thursday:  Light rain, a moderate breeze 15km/h SW 12/17*c

Friday:  Light clouds, Sunny intervals, a gentle breeze 6/11km/h W 13/16*c

Saturday: Heavy rain especially early 6-10am, moderate breeze 13/18km/h WSW 13/18*c

Sunday: Light cloud, gentle breeze 6/8km/ SW  14/18*c

New Venue

Formerly known as Doonbeg Golf Club,Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg hosts the Amgen Irish Open for the first time this week, becoming the 19th different venue in the event’s 52 editions on the DP World Tour.

It is in County Clare, SW Ireland along Doughmore Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, opened in 2002, designed originally by Greg Norman, a spectacular seaside links course with towering sand dunes, a 45 minute drive from Shannon Airport.

McIlroy returns this week as defending champion, looking to build on a year that has already seen him become a six‑time Major winner after triumphing at the Masters. 

(The big boys are out late on Thursday, early on Friday)

Group 37 13.35hrs  Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, Brooks Koepka 

Group 38  13.45hrs Shane Lowry, Patrick Reed, Jon Rahm

Golfs rich tradition in Ireland has gotten a lot more expensive over the last 35 years. Driven by surging International demand, many of the big courses asking an all time high of 450 - 500+ euros per round in the peak summer season,  thats $802 Canadian dollars !!.

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Solheim Cup 2026, September 11-13, Bernardus Golf, Cromvoirt, Netherlands...Teams, Scoriing

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Five of Europe's seven Solheim Cup victories have arrived on home soil

Its time for one of the golfing world's most exciting events, the Solheim Cup this week in (Holland) the Netherlands at Bernardus GC.

FORMAT

Played with the same format as the Ryder Cup, 2 matches, 8 foursomes, 8 fourballs then 12 singles on Sunday, its Europe vs USA for the 20th time, first staged in Florida in 1990 named after club manufacturer Karl Solheim along with his wife Louise, the founder and driving force behind the event.

LAST 5 EVENTS

2024  USA 15.5  Europe 12.5 Robert Trent GC, Virginia (Defends)

2023  Europe 14  USA 14 (Europe retained) Finca, Cortesin, Spain

2021  Europe 15  USA 13  Inverness GC, Ohio

2019  Europe 14.5  USA 13.5  Gleneagles, Scotland

2017  USA 15.5  Europe 11.5  Des Moines, Iowa

Europe

Anna Nordqvist captain,  Caroline Hedwall, Mel Reid, Ann Van Dam Vice Captains

Top 2 players LET,  Top 6 players owgr, 4 players Captain's picks

Charley Hull (Eng) Esther Henseleit (Ger) Lottie Woad (Eng) Maja Stark (Swe) 

Celine Boutier (Fr) Carlota Ciganda (Sp), Linn Grant (Swe) Nanna Koerstz Marsden (Den)

Leona MaGuire (Ire)  Julia Lopez Ramirez (Sp)  Nastasia Nadaud (Fr)  Mimi Rhodes (Eng)

USA

Angela Stanford captain,  Kristy McPherson, Paula Creamer, Brittany Lang Vice Captains

7 players LPGA points list, 2 players owgr, 3 players Captain's picks

Nelly Korda, Angel Yin, Jennifer Kupcho, Yealimi Noh 

Auston Kim, Lauren Coughlin, Allisen Corpuz, Andrea Lee

Alison Lee, Lindy Duncan. Megan Khang, Rose Zhang

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