GAINESVILLE, Va. – There was a reputation conspicuously lacking from the session lineups on Saturday: Leona Maguire.
The Irishwoman and Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela had been the one gamers to not compete on Day 2 of the Solheim Cup.
“When it ended up being the place we sort of stood after yesterday (down 6-2), we sort of needed to go by type. Sadly up till now, Leona hasn’t sort of been, I don’t know, the rock that I sort of hoped for,” Pettersen defined Sunday night.
“That being stated, that doesn’t imply she’s not fired up about going on the market tomorrow and taking part in her very best. She’s high-quality with it. She’s a staff participant.”
A have a look at the 12 Sunday singles match within the nineteenth Solheim Cup at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership.
Maguire was entrance and middle the final time Europe performed on U.S. soil as she went 4-0-1 in main her facet to victory. She performed in all 5 matches final 12 months, too, going 3-2 as Europe retained the cup.
Maguire, nonetheless, hasn’t performed effectively this 12 months. Regardless of a win on the Girls European Tour to begin April, she has just one top-10 end this season on the LPGA, that being a second-place exhibiting within the match-play occasion.
Returning to that format didn’t equal a return to type. Maguire sat out Friday foursomes after which teamed with Georgia Corridor in a 6-and-4 loss in fourballs.
She’s going to subsequent play Sunday’s singles, the place all 12 gamers on every staff compete. Maguire, who’s 2-0 within the particular person session, will face Ally Ewing within the next-to-last match.