1206: 4-4 after Day 1 of the '26 Solheim Cup

[MUSIC] >> Be the right club, be the right club today. [MUSIC] >> That is better than most. How about in? That is better than most. Better than most. [MUSIC] >> Expect anything, definitely. [MUSIC] [APPLAUSE] [MUSIC] >> Thank you for joining us here on this evening. And that is also my friend. >> I'm shocked, I can't do it. >> I can't do that. >> Not very, not very, not very, not very, not very, not very. That is my friend and my friend and Cody McBride. Hello, Cody, hello, TC. Guys, we had a day at the Soulheim Cup. >> Hello, the perfect villain. >> We're going to give you a rundown and storylines here. Brought to you, add free off the jump by titleist, the number one ball and golf. And the number one ball at the Soulheim Cup. We are just walking. If you're watching this here, we're going to be battling the daylight here. It was a bit of a grind to get that final match in the house. I had the timer out on two of Carlos Ogana's shots. Carlos Ogana's shots on 18 didn't get it on the approach shot. Which Lenny Duncan was not very pleased with that. Because she audibly said, is somebody timing this because of how long it took Carlos Ogana to play that shot. But hopefully people got a chance to watch the thrilling final match between Nellie Corda, Lauren Coglin, Julio Lopez Ramirez and Carlos Ogana, which ended in a half, a thrilling half. Satisies in a good mood tonight. >> No, it was a great afternoon and golf. It was a great day of golf. First time in a Soulheim Cup of history that we've been that both sessions tied on the first day. And I think that's only happened one time in Ryder Cup history in 1956. That of course is courtesy of our guy Randy Robles of the Elias Sports Bureau, who has been cooking up great statistics and facts all day long. >> Always cooking up. Like I wish people understood how much of a thrill TC gets out of this. So yeah, it was a very interesting afternoon, very interesting morning. It's been a great golf course, great atmosphere out here. I think the first match that made it to 18, there was something going wrong. There was a live concert that started in your 18th album. >> I don't know if you guys caught all that or if you're watching on TV. But that was the first thing that blew up my Twitter timeline was like people being upset about the music on 18. It's like a live event. I heard that one out there, very original. I will say this, I think. I don't want to stop the quick recap, but just so people know where we're at. We're behind the 16th green right now. So 18, quite a few, I wouldn't know. How long would you say? How far would you say? >> It's at least 15 minutes. It's two holes. It's 17 and 18 are those two holes the way. >> That is true. >> We'll call it 900 yards. >> Anyway, we barely heard the concert from here, but we're getting blasted by this sun. Of course, we're doing this live. So if our audio is issues, TC is changing the mic round right now because he doesn't realize it was centered on me. >> No, I know my mic core was underneath it. So doing it live. So we'll readjust that as well and we'll get back to it. But in the meantime, please let me know in the comments. Appreciate everybody tuning in and let's have a great show, Sally. >> We are going to start at the beginning. So we separated out this morning for the morning for sums. On the U.S. side, sitting was Angel Yen. Yulemi, no, Austin, Kim and Megan Kang. On the European side, Carlota, Segonda, Julia Lopez, Ramirez, Nastasia, Nadoud, am I saying it right? >> You are. >> I feel like the first T announcer went with something different today and it sounded really elegant when they did it and it sounded right and it sounds wrong when I say it. But and Mimi Rhodes were the one sitting match one. >> No huge surprises there. >> As far as who was sitting. >> No, that made sense. I think for both sides, match one was Charlie Hall and Lottie Wode against Nelly Corda, Alison Corpus. Cody, you went out with this match. You walked a fair amount of this one. What was the vibe like in that one? What kind of no worthy stuff happened in that one in your estimation? >> Yeah, it was quick. I was worried. I don't know why I would have been worried. Lottie's first Soulheim Cup. >> She was nervous. >> She was very nervous. I think when she got off the shuttle cart taking her to the first T, she turned and started walking in the wrong direction. Not to where the massive grandstand is. But man, she settled it and she came out early and just drained like a 25 footer for birdie on one. Her drive ended up left. Charlie hit an awesome shot up there and her to capitalize on that make that punt and then immediately just start her day going. And I was like, wow, this is going to be very, very impressive. But the combination of Nelly and Alison Corpus is a lot. And they were so dialed in this morning and they just didn't miss anything. And Charlie, I think she's, I don't know if it's because she wasn't hitting every single golf shot. But we stopped probably every two, three holes and she was getting treatment on her back. It was very noticeable that she was tight. She had her physio out there trying to keep her loosened up. She was fighting something and they both started fighting the left ball and then what they, they were riding kind of a hot putter. And then as soon as they lost it, you know, that it was kind of all down the hill from there and they ended up getting absolutely smoked this morning. The team of Alison Corpus and Nelly Corpus now goes to five of no in their Soul Heim Cup history, have to imagine they will be out in four subs tomorrow. Do you think, do we have the first ball? Do we have morning four sums yet? Hopefully we don't for tomorrow. Do we have pairings for tomorrow yet? No, they had an hour, an hour from that final putt. So I think maybe we're 15 minutes into this. No, that's perfect because I want to, I want to get a little bit of some time. I'm sure she, she dropped in that Jake break was coming through. She just slowed down this thing to a halt. I do want to at least try to prognosticate or guess what we think might happen. Because I think the US is going to send out Corpus and Corta again, probably first, I would imagine. Do we think Europe sends Charlie and Laughtie out again in that first match and goes for that rematch? I don't think they do. I think, do you send a sacrificial lamb in front of Alison and Nelly? No, I don't think you sacrifice anything. Try to go toe to toe with them. Yeah. Do it. Let me ask you this real quick. How do you feel after, how do you feel after today right now? It's tight. It's tied. I feel, so I'm not as like, I want the US to win, but I'm not nearly as emotionally invested as I am on the Ryder Cup side. It's much more healthy relationship I have over here. That was, today was probably the highlight of my golfing year of what I saw in person. It was just, it was electric. It was a great, great golf course, awesome energy. I've heard, I've had to miss the last two soul home cups. I've heard from your guys in person experiences. Been a little rough at some of these spain, not the best venue, major, major logistical issues on Friday, of course, at Solheim in 2024 and at RTJ, shuttles, all that, all that stuff. Today felt awesome, like genuinely other than the concert busting out early on 18, I struggled to come up with like an issue here other than the media centers far from the first. And that's on a rainy day, like the weather was pretty moody. It was mostly good this morning, and then it got really moody kind of just post lunch there. It's, the course is great. It's easy to get around the holes back up to one another. There's critical mass out there. The fans are awesome. Awesome. Grandstands were full. I mean, the way it's built out, the way it's set up and routed and everything, it was 10 of 10 today on that front. Good par 5s. Out here, I think it really good par 5s. Par 3s, the euros just couldn't stop hitting it in the water on some of the par 3s coming in. For some bad golf today too. Yeah. I think overall, it was like everybody mostly rose to the challenge. The European rookies played great this afternoon. Yeah. It was, like, I was thrilled watching, I was, man, this is, this is living up to the hype. I've had this circle on the calendar for a few years now and day one met the moment. Which credit, I mean, Bernardis is sand capped golf course. Like the no expense spared building this golf course and they needed it with what happened earlier this week. It's just a full, entire day of rain on Tuesday and it's not fast and firm, but like a low shot has no chance of stopping and there was a, you should just see a ball going offline and you know that ball's not going to stop until it finds something bad. And the punishment, punishment off the, like, these women are incredibly accurate. Fairways are not super wide in some spot. They're pretty wide. But when you do miss, there's Heather. There's fairway bunkers that are penal and the ball finds the bottom of it. It's just like a really good shot value golf course. And with some of the courses we're stuck with for some of these match play events, this one rises to the top of me. This is how the women's game scales into this. There's some canals in play. The Heather's a great, a great, you know, half-shot penalty, not fescue. Yeah. This is had actual Heather. Yeah. And they made the right call moving, moving six or the real 18 back to 16 because I think, you know, it's just, it flowed today. The first hole is the third hole. Yes. I think this route, it worked out perfectly. Whoever envisioned this other than you finished. on 18 directly into the sun, which is not how you would design a golf course. But otherwise, yes, I wonder what the numbers say of how many Soul Heimcup matches have made it to the team pool? No, it's, it's, there's a reason why they do do it. And it does work out well. Uh, it's, it was so funny because once the match has cleared through here, TC is helping me set up for the live show. And we're just getting hit with like the most beautiful gold now or ever. And for a golf course, and we talked about different, uh, other Soul Heimcup venues before, it was the first time that we actually got to see all the Humps and Bulls and all the shaping that's done here on the stand cap course. And it was crazy. I was like, oh, there's so much more out there, sometimes a little too turned up. But that's what this course was built for. Yeah. So it's built to identify like decisive shots, I think. And um, we're in Den Bosch. I guess we should say that. We're crumbord right now. Okay. But yeah, we're standing in Den Bosch. That's probably the nearest big city or what, our, our hour and a half, depending upon traffic and train times south of Amsterdam or in kind of the south of of Holland here, uh, former burgundian, uh, but I don't know, territory. Yeah. You're looking up all kinds of really fascinating place. Yeah. So you talk about the crowd. There were some highlights from the crowd today. If I can shout a few out, USA's terrifiedly, you know, McGuire, that was really good. Uh, that one got me good. Uh, to wonder, they did want to wonder wall for like, the fact that they already distribution of this, of all these chants and are get people into it and get people singing it. I heard, uh, Nana Kurtz meds and like singing the song, like walking to one of our shots like, USA's terrified and you're, she was like muttering it under her breath. I get it sticks in your head. Uh, but those were a few of the highlights. It was a great, great crowd, very partisan, of course, but like pretty good representation on the US side and like just some good crowd pops, especially, and if you're coming this weekend, Pulse 12 and 14 had great grand stands and the people camp there for a while and we're so excited when the matches came through and we're just chanting and screaming. It was just a very infectious energy. And uh, it seemed the first tea was great this morning too. I know there's been some lacking first tea vibes. Pop in half an hour, 45 minutes beforehand. Uh, people, people, people came out in mass. Yeah. Uh, I went out with the second match, Alison Lee and Lauren Coglum, uh, with Nana Kurtz, Madsen and Celine Boudier. I will give Kurtz, Madsen and Boudier a lot of credit for this match reaching the 16th hole because Alison and Lauren played awesome. I don't think that I think they had a chip once in the first 12 or 13 holes. Didn't get a lot out of it from Bernie standpoint, but they were constantly ahead of the Europeans and they made a bunch of saves, a bunch of decent puts and a bunch of decent chips to stay in some holes, make some bars and keep it going. Uh, Celine Boudier, they played bad. It was bad. It was bad. It was bad. It was bad. Uh, you know what else was bad? That TIO. So there was an incident in the morning. I'm told there's an incident in the afternoon as well. So right behind us on this 16th hole, there is a, a pedestrian walking bridge to the right of the fairway and it's a normal bridge. They've, they've, they've put some kind of guard rails up on it because they're crossing over a lot of people are crossing over that. Celine Boudier hits it into the penalty area, um, right of the fairway, but it's on the right side of the penalty area, but in the grass. So blocked out like on the wrong side, I didn't see exactly where the ball has may have had it have her feet in the water gets a rule and the image is up on the screen here as well. It's a ruling, um, that this bridge, they're just not a tall bridge. It like comes maybe just high, not even just high waist high, waist high to people walking on it, uh, was deemed to be in her line and she gets TIO relief from inside the penalty area. Now the rule is you do have to drop it inside the penalty area, but her nearest point of relief in the penalty area was on the left side of the, of the canal. Yes, to drop it, drop it and eventually place it on a perfect lie. Uh, they were too down at that time. There's a ball don't lie situation. They lost the whole, uh, ended up losing it anyway, but it was, it was just like the, you know, it took a long time to get the ruling. Angel Stanford was very, very much not happy. LC and Nelly very much not happy about it kind of shaking their heads. Listen, it's not what we're about on the European side. So I'll apologize formally, uh, I, Brentley Romain tweeted earlier that the rules officials were pleading the tournament directors to move the bridge overnight, uh, which I was kind of like, really, I don't know if that's necessary. Then it happens again this afternoon. Angel Yen hits a T shot in four ball that rolls in, but stays on the left side of that and she ends up, I missed this. I've, I've only been told she got TIO relief as well, not good, which added confusion here because what happened is she ends up, uh, you know, taking a drop, which was her TIO, Charlie Hall thought it was a penalty. Charlie Hall ends up conceding, uh, a, a, what she thought was a par to angel and it was actually a birdie is what I was told by a cat. She got free relief. And now on the actual scorecard, you'll leave me know is credited with the birdie on 16, but I think it was some confusion between Charlie and Lottie as to whether or not she'd given the putt. Lottie said, no, we shouldn't give it to him. And Charlie's like, well, I get actually already gave angel the putt. I don't know exactly what happened there, but not good, uh, not good all the way around. We need to do better tomorrow in the rules front, timing these players. There was, uh, I went out with the, the last group. We're going to match three was sorry, anything else for match two. No, matched. I mean, yes, I do, I do have a fair amount of this one. Um, uh, Celine Boutier is struggling with the T ball. I, I'd gotten, you know, some of my sources out there telling me she was, was struggling with her T ball recently, uh, going left hits it left off the very first hole. Um, and, or, uh, I think Kurt's Madsen, sorry, hit it left off the very first hole. No, I'm sorry. It was Celine Boutier. So Celine's boot by language was bad. All bad. She did hit several really good third shots in close range to save a bunch of these bars, but I mean, Nana Kurt's Madsen and Celine were as inaccurate as I've seen LPGA tour players be, uh, off the tee today. Um, we got to the sixth hole. Kurt's Madsen just, again, we're playing four sums. It's one ball in play. She just straight up chunked it in the water on six and it was like closer to the sign in the middle of the pond than it was declaring the pond and it wasn't raining at that point. It was just a very, very bad shot, uh, skipping ahead to the eighth hole, uh, Celine Boutier skulls a bunker shot way over the green. Um, and it was just like, man, there was some really bad golf played, in a tight period. Alison and, uh, and Lauren were a fantastic team. They were awesome to watch. I think I was told by Alison's boyfriend. I think Bethany might have wrote this up. Alison's the first mom to play in the Soul Heimcup since like 2010. Really, I think, um, I did not fact check that myself, but on 18, there's a moment like, um, her boyfriend was, was holding their son and like, she kind of sends a message back to him, like, you know, given directions of what to do with her. So like she's, she's being a mom in the middle of a, of a Soul Heimcup match, which, uh, I have to, have to salute that. That's pretty, pretty darn cool that she's out here being as competitive she has. She's played awesome golf. She dominated in the afternoon as well. Great eagle from Lauren on 10. Uh, just that was, that was kind of the turning point it felt like of, of, yeah, I think they were one up going into the back nine and then it was like, all right. And then that's a, that's kind of a, she walked that one into, walked it in and like was smiling. No one has more fun playing in these events than Lauren does. She's just laughing it up like she's, I didn't even realize she like walks up right next to me as I'm walking to 18T. I wasn't really with this match. She goes, Oh, hello again. Like, yo, you are playing, you gotta point on my line here. Focus. Uh, she just smiled at me after she made that eagle. She was like, I do it. Uh, she just absolutely thrives in this environment. And it's, it's just surreal to see what our relationship that started with her, um, kind of as a sponsor and a friend that was way back when she was on the Epson tour. And just to watch her absolutely bawling out in the soul. I'm cup is just an absolute treat more to come on that front in the afternoon. Uh, I think another stat that plays in Curtis Verga Randy. He's, he's in his bag tonight, guys. Uh, the European team had the advantage on the first nine holes, which makes sense. It's a much shorter nine holes. At least the way they've set it up, uh, they won 21 holes lost 17 and tied 34. The American team had an advantage on the second nine, which is much beefier longer. They won 19 lost 13 tied 29. So pretty big split there. One of the, I know where that I was talking to early with three holes into this thing was like, Europe's got this front nine. The US is going to dominate the back nine. Like I was, I was forewarned on that one. And I played out exactly. Uh, it's, this person's probably watching. So shout out to you for, for that little tip that was, that was actually spot on. Uh, I, I'm, I'm hungry. I'm tired. I'm thirsty guys. Uh, my mouth is watering because normally when I'm doing these shows, I'm holding a vodka celtzer or a vodka iced tea or a tequila celtzer. We're in the Netherlands. All right. I do not have one in my hand. But no matter the occasion, high noon has something for you. If you are looking for your next pack, check out the high noon tequila celtzer fiesta pack. There's an eight pack or now it comes in a bigger 12 pack. If you want umgarande fiesta all are made with real tequila, real juice, perfect for any fiesta, no matter where you plan to throw it. Find the high noon tequila celtzer fiesta pack nearest you at high noon spirits.com high noon suns up. You, it's funny that you met, you mentioned like Europe could not stop hitting it in the water because that was like, the match I was with Europe kept hitting it in the water. So lean, Allison hit in the water on 15 and also lean had to do was like hit the hit the green cover the water on 15 and she hits it right in the end. And I was surprised to see them go back out in the afternoon. But yeah, it was not not great vibes with them Nana did make a a bomb on 12, which was like one of the most exciting holes with the crowd and they just kept battling kept staying in it, but the US was just too much in that one. So first two points on the board to the US, but match three, we did not have anyone else out with this one, but Esther Hinslett. I watched a little bit of this at the end and Leon and McGuire won two up over Andrea Lee and Lundy Duncan. That one made it all the way to eight. One the first hole Esther and Leona and they did not give that up. They were either one or two up the entire day. I do, I do. We draw back and watch this and I really want to focus in. I don't know how many people's hot it, but the 14th hole still just baffles me. So they were, they were two down going into 14, excuse me, going into 13 and Andrea made a bomb, get it back to one down. Long par four, 16th, excuse me, the 14 goes up there. It's like a kind of a spinny week drive to the right underneath the tree, Lundy does. Andrea is underneath this tree and Lundy's like, do not take an unplayable. It's a baby pine. Don't take an unplayable. Hit it back over to 13 fairway. Just hit it over to 13 fairway and we'll play in from that angle. There is a ditch water on the other side of that similar to what happened with car load on very much. And Andrea goes, okay, and Lundy said was make sure it gets to the fairway. Okay. So now Andrea is juiced up. It's in the water. Meanwhile, on the other side, the other team is like basically playing it as a par five now because they know, oh, they're over there. They're already at a ball in the hazard. They finally make it up there. They have a putt for double bogey. Okay, should have been out of it. Lyona, Lyona, basically they have to two putt from like 15 feet. They let Lyona, like run it in and make the putt and steal all the momentum back. And I'm like sitting there and there's a lot going on because there's a ruling at the rain started picking up again. And I'm like, man, what a decisive moment where they were thinking so much about like their individual partnership and not about the match. And they just let Lyona suck all that energy back up and go sprinting to the next hole. That started a really good bunker shot. Very good. Yeah. Yeah, that one was like, you know, I think the US was looking to kind of shut up the haters and losers saying that the Lundy pick was was maybe a lifetime accomplishment award. But yeah, big, big points for for a Europe there. And then the last match rose and Jennifer Cup Show against Maya Stark and Lynn Grant. And that was, I followed this the entire front nine and then I kind of wanted to just see what was going on in some of the matches. They were they were four up through seven. They should have probably been five up through eight. They kind of lost a little bit of momentum there on on 10 rose and Cup Show birdie or sorry, Eagle 10 birdie 11 and then got it back to, you know, kind of got it back to two up and then Maya and Lynn took back over from there. So I was impressed with Maya and Lynn all day. They they were really they had a certain lightness about them. They had a really they were they were not super accurate off the tee, but the wedge play was awesome. Plutters look good. You know, I think Lynn's been catching some flack in these circles. And you quit her like. But not for this event. I know. She's true. She's a dog in this event. You gave her the flag. So I was surprised to see them sitting this afternoon. However, I think that's, that's, you know, them kind of, you know, learning from think of cortisines like her plan. She was gassed by the time they got to Sunday singles on that front. So yeah, I'll be we'll talk a little bit about what we think might might happen here for tomorrow. So two two after the morning, only other note I had for this from this morning. I you know talking to a bunch of people out there. I had about three different people just tell me like Megan Kang's puddings problem. It's a problem. And it's been a problem on, you know, in actual events, but even in practice this week, like, it's a problem, which I thought was going to be potentially some foreshadowing for this afternoon. But that was a definite vibe. A lot of a lot of people worried about angel, you know, this angel situation is those that haven't been following. She's been injured for a significant portion of the season came back just right before the Soulheim Cup. But but has not played much golf or played good golf at all. She lost a bunch of weight and was potentially going to be replaced by lily avu. She has elected to play. Willie a flu here with the team flu home for a friend's wedding, I think. Yes. Yes. She's now left as an angel made it clear that she was going to play. I did insert myself into the story a little bit today. I made sure to try to become part of the story. We were on as on the eighth hole and the in the in the in the for some match, the Europeans conceded to Allison and Lauren when they had like an eight foot birdie putt for three because they had already played four shots. They were lying for and putting five. And the the score announced the score is four USA for Europe five. And I was like, oh, that's weird. So I just like walk up to the last and I was like, how do you determine what the score is? You know, if if if if it's conceded, he was like, oh, you assume that they made that putt. I just kind of looked at her like, well, okay, but that was for three. And in like K. Cockro had a made her way over there by then as well, because she had the same question. He just looks. It was three. And so I got I got the official score change or else there might have been an error. You know, I don't want to count nice. I was I was you know, I got to get myself inserted in some way, but that's about it for the morning. So the pairings for this afternoon. We have still kind of expected. I think but on the US side, we had Lindy Duncan sitting, Andrea Lee sitting, Jennifer Cupcho and Rose Zhang. He inside a little bit of a surprise, Lynn Grant and Maya Stark, after their morning win, they sat Esther Henslett and Leonardo McGuire after their morning win. They sat as well, but match one out again, Charlie Hall and Lathi Wode versus Angel Yin and Yolimi No. I was I went almost every every shot with that one. We'll get into that. Match two was Celine Boudier and Anna Kurtz, Madsen who went back out after a rough morning. They were up against Megan Kang and Allison Lee. Match three was Mimi Rhodes and Nastasia Nadoud against Allison Corpus and Austin Kim. And then the final match was Carlos Segonda Julia Lopez Ramirez and Nelly Corda and Lauren Coglin. Guys, that opening match was that was Pete golf. I think between the four ball, you know, not counting multiple birdies. Like if you just did best score among the group among the four players in that group, they were 1500 par in 18 holes. It did from the jump. Lathi birdied two, three, four and five and maybe six. No, Charlie jumps in and made a birdie on six. It looked like they were going to dominate that match. I at one point walked away from it, thinking they're about to go four up. And this is over like I don't I do not see a path back for you. Let me know in Angel Yen. There were some struggles going on in that group. We get to the twelfth hole with the Europe already already three up. Lathi hits the flag stick from the right from the right side with their approach out stops four feet from the hole. And at that moment, I was like, all right, that's to go four up the five to play like I need to find another match. You leave me no roles in a 15 footer for birdie and Lathi misses that short putt. So what I thought was going to be four up then went to two up US bounces back and wins 13 with a par. They go to 14 they they have 14 have 15 have 16. You leave me know hits an incredible fairway bunker shot out of the left fairway bunker on a downslope. I'm sitting there with Andrew Lee talking about it. And I guess soon as she made impact with it, Andrew was like, Oh, I don't think we thought that she could get it out over the lip. Much less get it to the green hits it six feet short of the hole makes the birdie putt. She went birdie on 15 birdie on 16 birdie on 17. All the way back to tied. She had a look on 18 maybe 20 25 footer on 18 to win the match outright it barely missed. Angel Ian had some highlights she birdie the second hole birdie the seventh birdie the eighth. Everything else was about as disastrous as it could have gotten. It was if I'm the US. I am thinking about how I got angel everybody's got to play at least one thing it makes total sense to get her out in four ball. Friday instead of Saturday. Yeah, I know what you've got. She played she went out in the opening match. It worked out to perfection for the US that she played terrible. She got she contributed at some really great moments when they needed to on the front nine. And you leave me know just when into God mode on the back nine and they got a half out of it against Europe's best team like US has to be over the moon. I think there's next to zero chance that she is playing tomorrow. I think with the next time we see Angel will be will be in singles. I think that's the right. because it was not good. It was really not good. It was all over the place. The whole US team was hanging out, you know, following the final matches. I got word she came back to the range and was banging beaten balls. But this situation that a lot of people were concerned with heading into this Soulheim Cup has definitely reared its head. Not good. Just, you know, bears, it'll be interesting to see where they put her out on Sunday as well from a sequencing perspective. And I say all that, like, I love Angel. She's a shot of life. Like, she was genuinely funny out there. She was doing, putting forth Max effort. She was not moping. She was doing the opposite of moping. She birdie like the seventh hole and like did like a little like jump onto two feet to get the ball out of the hole. Like, she's just a, she's a, like, she's a riot. She was very funny. She had a very bad six iron on a 12. It had a pretty good meltdown just like blaming the six iron. Like every single six iron she hit was awful. She got to 14. She's in the middle of fairway and like they, you'll need me needed her at this exact moment in the middle of the fairway. It's over shot and backs off and just like puts her club down. Just goes like, it did like pump herself up. She's crazy. Gets back into it, hits it on the green. After that, Charlie Hall, like goes up to her, like, Charlie was confused. Like, I didn't actually hear it, but I said something along the lines of like, like, did I put you off? Like, did you back off because of me and Angel's like, no, no, no, you didn't do anything. She's like, okay, sorry, because that was weird. I was just bringing my hype guy. Like, you would never see any other player do that. There was just, there was a ton of those throughout the course of the day from her. But, um, match two, I will say this by the end of her match. She finished, they, they went to her, they put the camera on her and she's in tears. Very emotional about how she finished from the time that I watched that in the media center to the probably 10 minutes later. She was out on the driving range. It's very close to us right now. Back to laughing and giggling again. Like literally was like, wow, that took it all in. Got the emotions out and was right back to outgrinding and like laughing and joking and saw me from across the t-box. I could. So we'll shout out, I mean, she got a half point and like, she can do something in singles. She can either get a great matchup. I threw out the idea. I was thrown out the idea. Who was out here today? She says it's the camera. Yeah, I know. I just saw out the idea. Why not send, like, Europe is going to send either a lot of your Charlie out first, send her out, send her out, like, put her either make her be a sacrificial lamb or get if she can somehow get asked. Yeah. Have her ride that, you know, pull the boo weekly down the fairway and singles. But yeah, I think she is probably, probably see I just, I, I have gained a completely new founder spec for you. Let me know just incredible, incredible iron play. A lot of players out here hit draws. She was hitting the highest and best fades of any one I've, anyone I've seen at this level, like just really, really, really proper shots. She hit the stick on 15. I mean, their backs are against the wall. She angel has completely lost at this point. Hit the stick on the par three 15. Made that birdie. Was it a position to make that birdie on six? The stick was hitting beat up. It was. Yeah. There was a lot of a lot of shots off the stick and then made that awesome birdie on 17. It was just, it was, it was clinical golf. She was five or six under, I think, on that back nine and doing all, and Loddy and Charlie were awesome. Loddy carried the load for the majority of the day and every time it seemed like Charlie was needed, she came up and made like a 25 foot putt made the crowd erupt. It was, it was theater. I almost, I'm, I, I don't regret bailing on that match when I did. It was very unlikely that it would flip back the way that it did, but that was an absolute highlight of following that one today. Yeah, just a massive, massive tie on the board and what looked like was going to be blue all freaking day. Second match, I didn't get a great feel for this one. This one felt like Cody, we watched a lot of this one in the media center. It was raining pretty hard for a while there. This was Megan Kang and Allison Lee against Selene Boudier and Nana Kerch Manson. And just Selene just felt like I achieved, I don't know if somebody yelled something in her backswing on one hole, but she was put off by that. I was, I was just shocked to see them go back out this afternoon. That was the one big surprise. You know, of course they, they brought, they brought the rookies out and then paired paired up Lopez Ramirez with Carlota, but yeah, Selene and Nana, I was shocked to see them come out and Megan and Megan and Allison played like very good golf and beat them handily. And that's where, you know, two of the players we are most concerned with on the US side were Megan Kang's form and of course Angel Yen with the injury and Megan, Megan answered the bell. She absolutely answered the bell, rolled, you know, had struggled with the putter up in the early part of the day. But when she rolled in that birdie, the birdie putt she rolled in 11 was a complete flip of her day. She birdie 11 steps up birdie 12 as well and birdied 14 and then Allison responded and birdied 15 as well to win. I mean, they went from one up to five winning five and three in a very Allison eagle 10, like Allison had a few birdies in there as well. Like it was it was good golf. It was the, I don't think they were, I don't think they were getting beat. No, I think yeah, Megan, you know, do you do you think we see Megan in four sims tomorrow morning, we may have. Yeah, she sat this morning. I would, I would say, I would say probably not still. I think we're probably seeing the same four sims on the US side tomorrow morning. We're going to find out here shortly. And as if you're listening to this on replay, you probably already know the answer to that. But she was the one person I think that played this afternoon that didn't play this morning. I guess. She was pumping everybody up the sleeping room and do with how boy had on I have the pairings. You have doing okay. Okay, you want me to wait. Let's get through the next two and then wait. Yeah, I didn't get to see a lot of Allison corpus and Austin Kim against Mimi Rhodes and Natasha and the Dowd did see Austin Kim give a little P read have a little P read moment with a drain and a plot on 15 Austin Kim's got swag. Yeah, she had those those crew socks on she had a she had a couple pretty filthy wedge or pitch shots that I saw. I like what I like what Austin Kim's putting down. I know you're a fan of team Europe. I find this US team to be very likable. Yeah, there are a ton of the personalities are just very just genuine people. A lot of smiles out there. A lot of great energy. You know, even angel who had the worst golf days, she could probably imagine like was still smiling and having a great time. I mean, I'm just very impressed with a lot of the the energy around the US team. I was impressed by there's no Lexi. Yeah, there you know, I was impressed by the rookies on the European side. They the Dodd made three birdies on the front nine. Mimi Rhodes has swag as well. She's she's got a presence to her. She she comes out birdies 10. They were kind of you know, they were they were tied at the turn and then they go up, you know, one up through 10, two up through 12, three up through 14 and then got it done from there. So a big spot for two rookies. Yeah, step up and and win and four ball because corpus has been just an excellent excellent. So I'm a couple of the it was cool that those two and Natasia and and Mimi shared like a real and their caddy shared like just a very real genuine hug afterwards with a just a very real sense of accomplishment and excitement of like, yeah, we're not playing the morning. We were putting everything into this match and I try to put a point up on the board and they did it and you could just with not, you know, when like Nelly and Allison win a match, there's not like genuine excitement or surprise and when they did it, it would just look like they were having the time of their lives. And they were, you know, like it's not like they were shoeing picks. I mean, I think Nastasia was pretty far off the board as far as a wild card pick, but certainly they saw something in the statistics and something in the attitudes there. And yeah, Mimi gained a fan of a fan in me today. And then the main event. Nelly and Lauren against Carlota and Julia Lopez Ramirez. Yeah. I caught up with this with the end. It definitely feels like the US let one get away a little bit that granted they were two down through 10. They won the 11th hole and won the 12th hole to tie it up when the 13th take a one up lead. They did lose the 16th when Carlota drained a drain an eagle putt. Nelly hit one in the water from 167 yards. The US still got a birdie. Lauren was able to make a birdie there. So Carlota's massive putt on 16. It was truly like Lauren was like, all right, you're Nelly, you're going to take the front nine. I'm going to take the back nine. Like Nelly, Nelly played well kind of getting off the bus there. And then Lauren just absolutely turned it on there on the back nine. Yeah, she birdied 11. She birdied 12 as well. Also was one that as I mentioned that birdied 16. And we get to 18. You know, Carlota takes before or not before we get to 18. I do want to give Carlota some props in that she. Hey, she had three birdies on the front nine. She had an unbelievable shot into 16. Like it was a a pan that was tucked right over this this front little bowl ridge with water in front and from that one. whatever she was out, 200 out. If you missed that at all or catch it thin at all, it's going on that back bunker and you're probably making five. And she made a, it was probably a 15, 16 foot putt for eagle there. So that was to tie it up. And then yeah, and then just, you know, go into 18, like you're thinking, all right, like she's the ultimate villain. She's playing, I mean, she played slow, like it took him 20, 25 minutes to play 17, even. But you're thinking, all right, surely she can't, she can't get this up and down. She can't make this putt and she does. - The t-shirt was so bad. It took forever to hit the t-shirt. I timed that one a minute and two seconds. Hit like a chunk pop up, but three would, but found the fairway linking those two holes was a great break. I don't know what her, I think she had a pretty clear line at the hole from what I could tell from the wrong fairway and blows it way, way right. Actually played the third shot relatively quickly, but the second shot. - It really cool. I was watching on TV, really cool drone shot 'cause they couldn't get a camera over there. So they just tried to do a drone and it was awesome. - Perfect, perfect timing for him. - But I think it honestly was between two and three minutes to hit the second shot. Just kept backing off, just against the spirit of the game stuff. - Can't have it. - I don't, I don't know how she keeps getting away with it. I really don't either. It's kind of, it's kind of a disgrace. - The minute and 27 seconds to hit her final putt, which she poured in the center and did the full pullter and it was always gonna end that way. It just always was Europe makes that putt every time to end every day of team play that we'll ever watch. - I thought Lopez Ramirez, she showed up. She was, like the moment was not too big for her. Couple of birdies. - Oh yes, overall today. I thought you were talking about the key-teens. - No, we're all, she was struggling coming in. - It's the hill, it hits the hill. - It was a worthy risk. I think she had to take that risk. They needed to make a four. - She damn near made that chip. - I know, she did. That was good. - She did. - If we knew it too. - Man, they're fun partnership. Like they're gonna be together for a long time. - I think they're going out two rounds tomorrow. - Sure. - You know it will be a long time. Of course it's gonna be a long time. - Yeah, do you think? - Not here for a good time for a long time. I was like, oh, when I saw the pairings, I was like, oh, at least she's in the last one. I'm like, oh, wait a second. No, this completely backfire there. - Literally right now we're running out of daylight here for this live show because that was the last pairing out. - Yeah. - It's 18, of course. - I felt so bad watching Nelly realize what was happening in front of her, starting right here on the 16th grade. And then like just grasping and grasping and grasping. And like, LC, yeah, that putt was short. I saw a bunch of people, the internet's mad at LC. They said she's choked on the putt. It was, it was Josh. She just left it short. We're day one of the Solheim Cup here. I think LC's played pretty damn good so far. - Yeah, I think she's got like 31 of them. - Yeah. - Today it's been unreal. But you know, she needed to get that there as well. - For sure. - She knows that. - And Carlo, you know, she got two looks at that putt that she had a lot more than two looks at that. My thing back to Nelly is that how much she was freaking out just grinding. Do you know what, Nelly is just like us? She's a whooping bastard. - I thought you were going to say, I thought you were going to say ask what her strain was. I was going to look at what my strain was for today. - I think her strain was probably pretty high after she dumped it in the water on 16th from 12th. - I think I got a six point four today. I'm exhausted. I had a bad recovery at 27,000 steps today. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to push back on my strain, not enough protein. Then I have not had enough protein here. That has been a problem. The Nelly, we got to find some dinner tonight at some point. The Nelly app podcast brought to you by Woop, the wearable design for lasting progress. Woop combines 24/7 health insights with personalized coaching to help you improve how you sleep, train and feel, starting day one, wearing your Woop daily, improves your health. It gives you key metrics like your sleep, recovery, strain, and health span with Woop's continuous coaching and feedback. Woop research shares that even small changes and when and how long you sleep can influence how much you move the next day with features like sleep planter and recovery insights, Woop helps turn real world science into better decisions one night and one day at a time. It totally got me. It told me I was aging faster than my actual age is. We flipped that shit Cody. We actually flipped it on and we are Benjamin butting. I am now under 40 years at my actual body. - I think Carlota got involved in this. - Now it might have put me right back. My resting heart rate has been down. My HRV is up, not on this trip. But it has been a very positive influence on my life. So go to join.woop.com/NLU. It started with Woop on a free one month trial that includes the hardware and a completely unlocked app experience. And if you don't love it, you can send it back. No questions asked. You already got one. Join our Woop group code C-O-M-N-L-U-N-L-U and join.woop.com/NLU. - God, we're tied up. That's awesome. - That was a great freaking day. - Cody, can we give it to us? - I've not seen these pairings. - Okay, flash them up on the screen. Saturday A.M. four sums here. Match number one, it's 7.40 A.M. local. Maya Stark, Lynn Grant. Allison Corpus, Nellie Corp. - How about that one? - Let's do it. Match two, 7.52 A.M., Lyona and Esther. - I like against Jen Cup Show and Rose. Match number three, 804, Mimi Rhodes. Natasha, Andrew Lee and Austin Kim. So we got some new ones out here, different at least from today. And then match four, Charlie Hall and LaDee Woode against Allison Lee and L.C. L.C. is gonna go five. That's what this is telling me right here. - That is, I mean, that's, that last one, there's just good stuff all the way through, but one and four are real real. - So it looks like, so Austin Kim is in for Lindy Duncan, is the only change from this morning's for sums on the U.S. side. - And similarly, the entire point of having Lindy Duncan on the team was-- - Yes, let's put it in force. - Yeah, but I think they were like, we're gonna play you ones, we're gonna play angel ones, unless something goes different on Friday. And yeah, maybe she, maybe she sits for the afternoon as well, did not put, you'll leave me no in. So clearly there was no plan to play her in force them because I don't know how much better she could have played today. On the European side, can you flash that back up please, Cody? The European side, we have Esther and Leona, that is the same pairing. - It's a good pairing. - In a, they're in a different spot, they're up to second. - They complement each other. - And Lynn is the same pairing, they went from fourth up to first, Charlie and Lottie went from first to last out. And then the other one is Mimi and Natasha. They are in for Nana Kurtz-Madson and Celine Boudier, which that one makes a lot of difference. - I don't know if we see Celine and Nana, or at least Nana until Sunday. - Yeah, and I think you were downgrading them, leading into today. I think Lynn and Maya have been upgraded to the Alphas on this European team. - How do I downgrad? I picked the European team to win. - No, but those two, you're saying, oh, it's gonna be sad. - I said they have to do it. - If we get a win, I didn't expect them to, even though I picked. - And they also sat this afternoon. You can't be the Alphas if you sat the afternoon of day one. - I will say there is a putter that carried a lot of weight for that team, and it wasn't Lynn's. Lynn hit the ball, amazing though. - Yeah, and Maya didn't drive a grade either. - It was really impressive. - They scrambled well too. They're just good. They like being around each other, they're comfortable. You know, they hate losing. - Yeah. - They just, they get sensitive. - Lynn's got her boyfriend on the bag. - Yeah, and like, you know, I was talking to hats, like in between shots, and he's just like, dude, he's like just, everything, everything that, whoever they're playing against, it just gets under both of their skin, and they just fucking eat on it. - But they were smiling the whole day and laughing. And you juxtapose that with Rose was the light to watch. She was so unbothered and you can't tell if she's too up or too down, it doesn't really affect her. - I mean, it's such a juxtaposition with Cup Show. - It's a juxtaposition, it's just bothered by everything and just always has a scowl on her face, or, you know, just snide eyes galore, it's, it's just, and it's kind of entertaining. It's a fun juxtaposition. - So, what else we miss from today? Any other, any other highlights? - Favorite hole in the course, for match play purposes. - I think 10's been fun to watch is 'cause you're, you're seeing second shots into a par five. There's, they need to come in from short and judge or run up, and I'm, you know, maybe that's my favorite 'cause I saw a lot of amazing shots on that hole. I saw several Eagles on that hole today, but it's not like a, a Gimme Short Iron Eagle par five. Like, it's an earned, so a couple great putts and a couple just really, really, really good golf shots on that. And an alt shot, a Forsem's Eagle just hits a little different. - It's just, that one's been a highlight. - Great, great, great two. - It's the short par four drivable par four, that's been really fun. - I think, I think the, the first par five has been good too. What was that one? Two or three? - Three. - Or two? - Oh, two. - Yeah, yeah, two's good. Five was playing a little long. My opinion was, I think they're worried about pace of play. kind of stacking up there with two par fives and a par three in the first, you know, five holes there. And then another par three on six. But they did like this place is, this place is good. It's really good. There's some weird like there's like like like front of 16 here or left of left of 18. Actually, the real 18 hole. There's like, it kind of looks like a shoebox. It's like this elongated like rectangle shaping. Mr. Court, right? Mr. Court would not be thrilled with that. But overall, like the concepts are really, it, I think it's, it's doing the right stuff. Yeah. It's, it's not, um, it's not like the cream of the crop, but it easily clears the bar. And just, I don't know, man, just not having traditional circular bunkers. It does so much, like it makes the course feel more natural. It's not a natural course, but at least, but makes it feel a lot less can drive. It feels like a mix of links and heathland. Yeah, put together like those two things. Um, so I gotta tell you that these Dutch people are so tall. So tall. They're so tall. And they either have great, wonderful hair or no hair at all. They're all dressed really well. They're good golf fans, even the ones that are relatively new to the game. And I saw a ton of suites out there. A lot of suites made the, made the trip down. So proud of it, proud of my suites. I was blown away by that environment like around on that 12th hole. I mean, there were some freaking roars, man. Like it, uh, yeah, it's way bigger crowds, way better crowds in Spain. I mean, lasher and DC, this, these people blow the DC crowds out of the water. It's kind of feels, this feels stronger than Inverness felt, even. Yes. I mean, this is like shaping up to be freaking incredible. And I think the, the ability to go from, you know, one hole to four holes over very, very quickly. And then you hear the roars really well. And all of the hospitality and all of the grandstands are positioned really thoughtfully to it. It really enhances the experience. So everybody that's been planning this, the logistics were really seamless this morning, coming from, you know, like players are staying down south. There's, there's probably three different like cities that people are staying in and everybody's converging here. Lots of people bike, uh, shuttles were smooth. It's been, it's been exceptionally well-run. And it's, it's a, um, it's a, remarkably like kind of pure experience out there. Like if I contrast this with the rider cup of how corporate that all feels, it is, the, even the branding is, um, it's all kind of the same color. It's natural. It blends in. Yeah. They're just trying to plywood under one of the grandstands. That's such a genius idea. Enjoy nature. It's not just, you know, plywood. And then they put like a graphic, yeah, like the letter font over it, which I didn't even notice it was plywood because I saw that it was had a graphic on it. But even like, you know, all the advertising signs are all the same color. And it just is, and there's no, there's almost no concessions out there. There's a massive fan village though. There's a huge fan. There's all the centers of gravity. It's just like a remarkably not, it's just everything in golf as it gets bigger, just shoves. It feels more like a walker cup experience. Yeah, advertising in the best ways. And yeah, the vibes of just like, I don't let people walk where they, where they want to inside the ropes and, and not get in the way, it just is, uh, so this is it, man, this is like, I, you know, I sometimes roll my eyes that you're overreaction to the rider cup, never wanting to go again. And all the one to come here, and I'm kind of like, this is this is kind of it. I can watch the rider cup on TV and see a lot more golf. Yeah, but, but like, we were highly critical of the L.E.T. and specifically the Spanish Federation for their, they ran the space. Yeah. And this is IMG. And like, they've done rush. Yeah. And the, uh, the Dutch government supported it. It's, it's been great in the local community. And like, about the golf. Like, there's no one's talking about a stupid controversy now. Everyone's talking about the golf. And then I think too, like, the weather's going to be better tomorrow. It's supposed to be the banger of a day tomorrow. Um, that's great. Cause I give the crowds out here a lot of crests. Like, it was, it was kind of scratchy right from the start. And there was in and out moisture all day. And then it started raining pretty hard around two o'clock, three o'clock after lunch. And it got pretty cold. So it's very wet on this. It has probably stopped and started raining 46 times since we've since we've been here. Is that fair to say a lot? Yeah. Uh, not a lot of places where you can just be like watching a match and you turn around and look and you're like, oh, yeah, that's like the United States ambassador to the Netherlands. Yeah. Like just watching excited because Nellie's like, you know, he's a golfer. So he's like, God, let's call Nellie. We did, we did literally meet the US ambassador to the Netherlands and his, and his very kind wife on the range of the scoring. Podcasts. Podcasts. Absolutely. Uh, shout out to them. I mean, it's so good to come here and see like Sussoran who met at Great Northern in Denmark, met some old friends, some Sweden. It's just, yeah, it's like, it's a really convivial atmosphere. Yes. It, um, we're just guys. We're going to see a lot, a lot of great golf. What's been the highlight, um, kind of off the course so far on the trip for you to pan. We did. So on the early part of this trip, we, we spent some time in Amsterdam. We played three rounds of golf, uh, there and filmed that that's going to be a video to come. All that experience documented. But yes, on top of this Soul I'm Cup, there is some absolute world-class golf, uh, here in the Netherlands. I don't mean the bread. All of the bread's really good. It's the pond. It's the pond. Yeah. It's the pond was a highlight. Some great food. Well, hey, it was great. Yeah. It over. Someone's great. Yeah. You showed us around Amsterdam, which was exceptional. We got on supplies. We got wet. Dan Bosch. Cool. But, you know, cool. There's probably 150, 200,000 people that live there. It's like going to Greenville, South Carolina or Portland, Maine or something of that size where like you get some, you get a taste of, of Denmark, or of Holland outside of, of the big city. Um, yeah, which is, it's been really cool. The Bosch Bull. Bosch Bull. Bosch Bull. Yeah. It's like chocolate. It's their thing here. I hope I run into one of those. Yeah. Uh, it needs, if we're, it's not open, we're in trouble because we are, I think we aren't doing since 11. Yeah. Food is not. We're about to miss our shuttle. Yeah. We, we will have to move to wrap here, uh, because we do do catch a shot. We always say it's carloader hour. Do not blame us. This is carloader Sagandas fault, uh, for, for ticket, uh, all the way to 18 and, and making this wait. We will be visiting the food trucks here on site tomorrow. Yes, I will be, uh, during lunch today, that was tough. And then, all right, what's your prediction for where we stand after the, after when we're sitting here tomorrow night? Eight eight. Eight eight. Yeah. Are we going to get two, two tide sessions? No. I think the US wins the morning and Europe wins the after two and a half to one and a half in each. Okay. Yeah. That would be fun. Why not? Yeah. No, let's do it. I just going to be a very close competition. The teams are very even. And, uh, you know, all that's the talk and we've, we've fed into it for sure about how bad everybody's playing. You think result prior results mattered at all today out there. You know, maybe angel being like, oh, you know, bad former everybody else out there. It's birdies, birdies and partisan poigies and they're just playing, you know, the, the whole that's in front of them. It was awesome. All right. Let's find some food. Thank you for tuning in here on the Friday. We'll be live after Saturday's round as well. Live, of course, after Sunday's round here from on site. Thank you to our friends at title list, high noon and whoop. We'll have Big Randy with us tomorrow. He had a scheduling conflict today. But Big Randy will be joining us. Uh, we're, we're talking about too. Like Randy's got, I mean, my costus dinner with this story. So we'll make it. No, it's eight, it's eight hours behind. It's too much. Thank you very much for tuning in. We'll see you back - Back here tomorrow night, cheers.