Friday, September 14, 2007

Since the Tour Championship is a mess with more bad weather expected on Friday, let's look at the Solheim Cup, where the morning foursomes are in the books. The U.S. has a one-point lead and the rain is coming down in Sweden as well.

I have to question the captains already. I subscribe to the theory of "if you win in the morning, unless you contract polio at lunch, you play in the afternoon."

American captain Betsy King benched three of her four winners from the morning, including the team of Laura Diaz and Sherri Steinhauer. They posted a 4 & 2 win over Annika Sorenstam and Catriona Matthew. Why aren't they back out? Juli Inkster won with Paula Creamer as well, but if you want to sit Inkster, that's fine. She's not a kid.

King wanted her entire team out on Friday and accomplished the goal. Morgan Pressel looked bad in the morning and overexcited. She would be one of the players I'd sit in the afternoon. She will play with Creamer in the afternoon against Laura Davies and Trish Johnson as both Europeans are old enough to be either American's mother.

Helen Alfredsson is sitting Bettina Hauert, the leading money winner in Europe, and Linda Wessberg, one of her captain's picks, who has played a lot of good golf lately.

Then again, what do I really know? Europe better come out in the afternoon because they dominated the Americans in alternate-shot and that did not happen Friday morning.

All in all, very dull morning.

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