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The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian-American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force behind its creation.

The inaugural Cup was held in 1990, and the event was staged in even number years until 2002, alternating years with the Ryder Cup (the equivalent men's event between the USA and Europe). As part of the general reshuffling of team golf events consequent to the one-year postponement of the 2001 Ryder Cup due to 9/11, the Solheim Cup switched to odd numbered years from 2003.

The US team is selected by a points system, with American players on the LPGA Tour receiving points for each top-twenty finish on tour.^[1] For the European team, up to 2005, only seven players were selected on a points system based on results on the Ladies European Tour (LET). This allows top European players who compete mainly on the LPGA Tour to be selected to ensure that the European team is competitive. From 2007, only the top five players from the LET will qualify and another four will be selected on the basis of the Women's World Golf Rankings. This reflects the increasing dominance of the LPGA Tour, where almost all top European players spend most of their time.^[2] In addition, each team has a number of "captain's picks", players chosen at the discretion of the team captains, regardless of their point standings, though in practice the captain's picks are often the next ranking players.

Team captains are typically recently-retired professional golfers with Solheim Cup playing experience, chosen for their experience playing on previous Cup teams and for their ability to lead a team.

The cup is played over three days. Since 2002, there have been 28 matches—eight foursomes, eight four-balls and 12 singles on the final day. This is the same format as the Ryder Cup. Before 1996, and also in 2000, the Solheim Cup used a similar, but abbreviated format.

Results[link]

Year	Venue	Winning Team	Score		Losing Team	Captains
2013	Colorado Golf Club (Parker, Colorado)					Meg Mallon  Liselotte Neumann
2011 Details	Killeen Castle Golf Resort (County Meath, Ireland)	Europe	15	13	United States	Rosie Jones  Alison Nicholas
2009 Details	Rich Harvest Farms (Sugar Grove, Illinois)	United States	16	12	Europe	Beth Daniel  Alison Nicholas
2007 Details	Halmstad GK (Halmstad, Sweden)	United States	16	12	Europe	Betsy King  Helen Alfredsson
2005 Details	Crooked Stick Golf Club (Carmel, Indiana)	United States	15½	12½	Europe	Nancy Lopez  Catrin Nilsmark
2003 Details	Barsebäck Golf & Country Club (Löddeköpinge, Skåne, Sweden)	Europe	17½	10½	United States	Patty Sheehan  Catrin Nilsmark
2002 Details	Interlachen Country Club (Edina, Minnesota)	United States	15½	12½	Europe	Patty Sheehan  Dale Reid
2000 Details	Loch Lomond Golf Club (Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland)	Europe	14½	11½	United States	Pat Bradley  Dale Reid
1998 Details	Muirfield Village (Dublin, Ohio)	United States	16	12	Europe	Judy Rankin  Pia Nilsson
1996 Details	St Pierre Golf & Country Club (Chepstow, Wales)	United States	17	11	Europe	Judy Rankin  Mickey Walker
1994 Details	The Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia)	United States	13	7	Europe	JoAnne Carner  Mickey Walker
1992 Details	Dalmahoy Country Club (Edinburgh, Scotland)	Europe	11½	6½	United States	Kathy Whitworth  Mickey Walker
1990 Details	Lake Nona Golf & Country Club (Orlando, Florida)	United States	11½	4½	Europe	Kathy Whitworth  Mickey Walker

Junior Solheim Cup[link]

A version of the Solheim Cup for girls, called the PING Junior Solheim Cup, was inaugurated 2002. It follows a similar format to The Solheim Cup and features the top 12 U.S. amateur girls—defined as girls participating in American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) events—versus their European counterparts. The event is held over two days, with six fourball and six foursomes matches the first day, and twelve singles matches the second day. Each event to date has been held in the general vicinity of that year's Solheim Cup.

The home team won the first five events, with Team USA winning in 2002, 2005, and 2009, and Team Europe winning in 2003 and 2007. The sixth event ended in a tie.

Results[link]

Year	Venue	Winning Team	Score		Losing Team	Captains
2011	Knightsbrook Golf Resort (Trim, County Meath, Ireland)	United States1	12	12	Europe	Meg Mallon  Liselotte Neumann
2009	Aurora Country Club (Aurora, Illinois)	United States	15½	8½	Europe	Nancy Lopez  Carin Koch
2007	Bastad Golf Club (Båstad, Sweden)	Europe	14	10	United States	Donna Andrews  Catrin Nilsmark
2005	The Bridgewater Club (Carmel, Indiana)	United States	16	8	Europe	Colleen Walker  Charlotta Sörenstam
2003	Bokskogens Golf Club (Bara, Skåne, Sweden)	Europe	12½	11½	United States	Val Skinner  Helen Alfredsson
2002	Oak Ridge Country Club (Hopkins, Minnesota)	United States	17	7	Europe	Sherri Steinhauer  Marta Figueras-Dotti

¹The matches ended in a 12-12 tie. Solheim Cup rules state that the in a tie the defending championship team retains the cup.

See also[link]

• List of American Solheim Cup golfers
• List of European Solheim Cup golfers
• List of sports competitions between team representing continents

Notes and references[link]

1. ^ "Points distribution for 2009 U.S. Solheim Cup Team qualifying" (PDF). LPGA Tour. http://www.lpga.com/content/2009SolheimPointsDistribution.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-25. 
2. ^ "Solheim selection process changes". BBC Sport. 2006-04-18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/4918154.stm. Retrieved 2007-04-24. 

External links[link]

• Solheim Cup official site
• Online Solheim Cup exhibit
• PING Junior Solheim Cup official site

Solheim Vestre Hyen
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Coordinates: 61°37′54″N 05°43′1″E / 61.63167°N 5.71694°E / 61.63167; 5.71694Coordinates: 61°37′54″N 05°43′1″E / 61.63167°N 5.71694°E / 61.63167; 5.71694{{#coordinates:61|37|54|N|05|43|1|E|type:city |primary |name= }}
Country	Norway
Region	Western Norway
County	Sogn og Fjordane
District	Nordfjord
Municipality	Gloppen
Time zone	CET (UTC+01:00)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02:00)
Post Code	6829

Solheim is a little village west of Hyen. It takes 20-30 minutes by car to get from Hyen to Solheim. Solheim is situated by a big lake called Eimhjellevatnet. Across the lake lies Eimhjellen. There is a lot of fish in the lake, especially a lot of trout. Solheim has many farmers. It is a green place and compared to the surrounding villages, and is a sunny place, thereby its name (meaning "Sun-home"). Solheim had a school until 2009, but it is now closed. The building is used for parties and as a local community house. It takes about 40 minutes to drive to Førde and 40 minutes to Florø.

References[link]

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Christel Boeljon
Boeljon at the 2009 Women's British Open
Personal information
Full name	Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon
Born	(1987-07-30) 30 July 1987 (age 24) Beverwijk, Netherlands
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Nationality	Netherlands
Residence	Netherlands
Career
College	Purdue University (three years)
Turned professional	2009
Current tour(s)	LET (joined 2009) LPGA Tour (joined 2011)
Professional wins	3
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour	3
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco C'ship	T15: 2011
LPGA Championship	T57: 2011
U.S. Women's Open	DNP
Women's British Open	T57: 2009

Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon (born 30 July 1987)^[1] is a professional golfer from The Netherlands, currently playing on the Ladies European Tour and the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.

Amateur career[link]

Boeljon was born in Beverwijk. One day she joined her parents for a visit to the Golfclub Spaarnwoude, and two years later she gave up field hockey and concentrated on golf. In 2005 she continued her studies in the United States and accepted a golf scholarship to Purdue University in Indiana.^[1] In her first 25 tournaments she played 24 rounds under par.

Highlights

• 2002: won Mevrouw Swanebeker, won Dutch Junior Masters
• 2003: won National Match Play U-21
• 2004: runner-up National Stroke Play U-21, runner-up Stern Open
• 2005: won National Stroke Play U-21, semi-finalist in British Ladies Amateur
• 2006: won Dutch International Junior Open at Toxandria
• 2007: best Dutch player at the Dutch Ladies Open
• 2008: 8th at the Ladies Dutch Open at Eindhoven, won National Stroke Play

Professional career[link]

Boeljon turned professional in 2009, when she returned from Purdue. She went to the Ladies European Tour's qualifying school in 2008, won the first stage and finished 4th at the final stage in 2009. She began well, she made the cut at the ANZ Ladies Masters in Australia and finished 41st. In April, she won the European Ladies Golf Cup together with Marjet van der Graaff. In June she again won the National Stroke Play. She made the cut at the 2009 Women's British Open and finished 57th.

In 2011 she played her first major in the United States, the Kraft Nabisco Championship and finished 15th. A few weeks later she won the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open in Belek, then finished 2nd at the Ladies Slovak Open, which was good enough to become the leader of the Ladies European Tour money list.

Professional wins (3)[link]

Ladies European Tour (3)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share (€)
1	8 May 2011	Turkish Airlines Ladies Open	73-71-70-73=287	-5	3 strokes	Florentyna Parker Becky Brewerton	37,500
2	5 Feb 2012	Gold Coast RACV Australian Ladies Masters	66-65-68-68=267	-21	1 stroke	Diana Luna Kim Ha-neul Ryu So-yeon	63,631
3	13 May 2012	Turkish Airlines Ladies Open	70-73-69-73=285	-7	3 strokes	Ursula Wikstrom	37,500

Ladies European Tour career summary[link]

• as of 28 May 2012

LPGA Tour career summary[link]

• official through 21 May 2012 ^[2]

Results in LPGA majors[link]

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
LA = low amateur
Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances[link]

Amateur

• Espirito Santo Trophy: 2006, 2008

Professional

• European Ladies Golf Cup: 2009 (winner)
• Solheim Cup: 2011

Solheim Cup record[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Christel Boeljon at the Ladies European Tour official site
• Christel Boeljon at the LPGA Tour official site
• Purdue Sports.com - women's golf - Christel Boeljon

v t e European Solheim Cup team – 2011  Christel Boeljon  •  Laura Davies  •  Sandra Gal  •   Sophie Gustafson  •  Caroline Hedwall  •  Maria Hjorth •  Catriona Matthew •  Azahara Muñoz •  Anna Nordqvist •  Suzann Pettersen  •  Melissa Reid  •  Karen Stupples Alison Nicholas (non-playing captain)  •  Joanne Morley (non-playing assistant captain) •  Annika Sörenstam (non-playing assistant captain) Won: 15–13

Suzann Pettersen
Pettersen at the 2009 LPGA Championship
Personal information
Full name	Suzann Pettersen
Nickname	Tutta
Born	(1981-04-07) 7 April 1981 (age 31) Oslo, Norway
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Nationality	Norway
Residence	Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Career
Turned professional	2000
Current tour(s)	LPGA Tour (joined 2003) LET (joined 2001)
Professional wins	14
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	8
Ladies European Tour	5
Other	1
Best results in LPGA Major Championships (Wins: 1)
Kraft Nabisco C'ship	T2/2nd: 2007, 2008, 2010
LPGA Championship	Won: 2007
U.S. Women's Open	T2: 2010
Women's British Open	T14: 2010
Achievements and awards
Ladies European Tour Rookie of the Year	2001

Suzann Pettersen (born 7 April 1981) is a Norwegian professional golfer. She plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Her career best world ranking is second. She has held that position at several times, most recently beginning 22 August 2011.

Amateur career[link]

Pettersen was born in Oslo, Norway.^[1] Both her parents, Axel and Mona, participated in sports.^[2] Suzann Pettersen is a distant relative of merchant Gunerius Pettersen (1826–1892).^[3]

She was a successful amateur golfer. She is a five-time Norwegian Amateur Champion (1996–2000), and won the British Girls Championship in 1999.^[1][4] She represented Norway in the Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Team Championship in 1998 and 2000, becoming World Amateur Champion in her second appearance.^[5] She also represented Europe in the 1997 and 1999 Junior Ryder Cup Matches.^[6]

Professional career[link]

2001[link]

Pettersen turned professional in September 2000 at age 19 and gained her Ladies European Tour card with an 11th place finish at the 2001 LET Qualifying School.^[1] In her 2001 rookie season, she played in ten events without missing a cut. In her second start as a professional,Pettersen won the Open de France Dames in a playoff over Becky Morgan.^[7] She finished second on the Order of Merit and was named LET Rookie of the Year.^[8]

2002[link]

Pettersen started 2002 with a playoff loss to Karrie Webb in the AAMI Australian Women’s Open, and two more top ten finishes led to her winning a place on the European team for the 2002 Solheim Cup.^[9][10][11] In the singles, Pettersen was five down with five to play and ended up with a tie against Michele Redman.^[12] She tied for 10th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn exempt status for the 2003 LPGA season.^[13]

2003[link]

In 2003 Pettersen played in five events on the LET, missing no cuts and finished runner-up to Sophie Gustafson at the HP Open.^[14] She played a full rookie season on the LPGA, with her best finish a third place at the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship.^[4] She was a captain's pick for the 2003 Solheim Cup and recorded a 4–1–0 record as a member of the victorious European Team.^[15]

2004[link]

In 2004 Pettersen played in just four events on the LET, with a best finish of T9 at the Evian Masters. On the LPGA, she began her season late after recuperating from elbow surgery. She recorded four top-10 finishes including a season-best tie for fifth at the State Farm Classic.^[1]

2005[link]

In 2005 Pettersen played in only three events on the LET and nine events on the LPGA because of a debilitating back injury. When she returned, her best LPGA finish was a sixth at the John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic, and she finished tied for second at the Ladies Finnish Masters on the LET.^[1][4] She registered a 2–0–2 record as a captain’s pick on the European Solheim Cup Team, and played for the International team at the inaugural Lexus Cup.^[16][17][18]

2006[link]

In 2006 Pettersen played five times on the LET, recording two top ten finishes, including a third place at the Scandinavian TPC.^[19] On the LPGA Tour she had three top ten finishes, with a season's best finish fifth at the Florida's Natural Charity Championship.^[4]

2007[link]

At the start of 2007, Pettersen was selected to represent Norway at the Women's World Cup of Golf but withdrew due to illness before the event started.^[20] At the Safeway International she recorded her then-best finish on the LPGA Tour, second place, two strokes behind Lorena Ochoa. A late collapse at the Kraft Nabisco saw her equal that finish, her second best at a major.^[8][21] Pettersen became the first Norwegian LPGA winner at the 2007 Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, beating Jee Young Lee in a playoff.^[22] Pettersen followed up this win by capturing the second major championship of 2007, the LPGA Championship, by one stroke over Karrie Webb, which moved her up to fourth in the Women's World Golf Rankings. On the Ladies European Tour she won the SAS Masters in her native Norway.^[23] In October at the Longs Drugs Challenge she won her third LPGA victory, beating Lorena Ochoa in a playoff and then claimed wins number four and five in Korea and Thailand.^[24][25] On 31 December 2007, Pettersen reached the number two position in the Women's World Golf Rankings, surpassing Karrie Webb and Annika Sörenstam, trailing only Lorena Ochoa.

2008[link]

In January 2008 Pettersen signed a multi-year agreement with Nike Golf to represent Nike in clubs, balls, footwear, glove and bag.^[26] Her first win of 2008 came at the rain-shortened Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open.^[27]

2009[link]

In September 2009, Pettersen won her sixth LPGA Tour event and first in two years at the CN Canadian Women's Open at Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club in Calgary, Alberta. Pettersen won the event by five strokes over Karrie Webb, Momoko Ueda, Morgan Pressel, Ai Miyazato and Angela Stanford.

2010[link]

Pettersen was a runner-up six times on the LPGA Tour in 2010, but did not record a victory.

2011[link]

Pettersen broke her 20-month victory drought in May, when she captured the Sybase Match Play Championship at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in New Jersey. Playing in cool, rainy conditions, she won all six of her 18-hole matches over four days, and defeated, among others, then-world number one Yani Tseng in the quarter-finals, and Cristie Kerr in the finals. In early August, she won the Ladies Irish Open on the LET with a 198 (-18), six shots clear of the field. It was Pettersen's first victory on the LET in 3 years, her last was the same tournament in 2008, played at Portmarnock Links. In her next start two weeks later, Pettersen won again on the LPGA Tour at the Safeway Classic in Oregon. She came from nine shots back at the start of the final round and shot a 64 (-7) to force a playoff against second round leader Na Yeon Choi. Pettersen won on the first extra hole with a par after Choi put her approach shot in the water to double bogey. The victory moved her world ranking up to #2, ahead of Cristie Kerr and behind only Yani Tseng.

Professional wins (14)[link]

Ladies European Tour (5)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up	Winner's share (€)
1	7 Jun 2001	Open de France Dames	71–70–70–69=280	-8	Playoff	Becky Morgan	24,450
2	26 Aug 2007	SAS Masters	64–72–68=204	-12	9 strokes	Nikki Garrett	30,000
3	25 May 2008	Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open	67–63–64=194	-22	6 strokes	Amy Yang	78,750
4	13 Jul 2008	AIB Ladies Irish Open	69–69–67=205	-11	5 strokes	Marianne Skarpnord	65,000
5	7 Aug 2011	Ladies Irish Open	71-63-64=198	-18	6 strokes	Azahara Muñoz	60,000

LPGA Tour (8)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
1	13 May 2007	Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill	66–72–68–68=274	-10	Playoff	Jee Young Lee	330,000
2	10 Jun 2007	McDonald's LPGA Championship	69–67–71–67=274	-14	1 stroke	Karrie Webb	300,000
3	7 Oct 2007	Longs Drugs Challenge	75–65–64–73=277	-11	Playoff	Lorena Ochoa	160,000
4	21 Oct 2007	Hana Bank-KOLON Championship	69–72=141	-3	1 stroke	Eun-Hee Ji	223,000
5	28 Oct 2007	Honda LPGA Thailand	65–68–63–71=267	-21	1 stroke	Laura Davies	195,000
6	6 Sep 2009	CN Canadian Women's Open	65–68–66–70=269	-15	5 strokes	Momoko Ueda Morgan Pressel Ai Miyazato Angela Stanford Karrie Webb	412,500
7	22 May 2011	Sybase Match Play Championship	1 up			Cristie Kerr	375,000
8	21 Aug 2011	Safeway Classic	69-74-64=207	-6	Playoff	Na Yeon Choi	225,000

LPGA major is shown in bold

Other wins (1)[link]

• 2009 (1) Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Natalie Gulbis and Cristie Kerr), unofficial event

Major championships[link]

Wins (1)[link]

No.	Year	Championship	Winning Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up	Winner's share ($)
1	2007	McDonald's LPGA Championship	69–67–71–67=274	-14	1 stroke	Karrie Webb	300,000

Results timeline[link]

DNP = did not play.
CUT = missed the half=way cut.
"T" tied
WD = withdrew
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

LPGA Tour career summary[link]

• official through 22 May 2012 ^[28]

LET career summary[link]

• Career LET earnings are € 1,140,119 (through 8 August 2011), includes LPGA co-sanctioned events^[1]

Team appearances[link]

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2002, 2003 (winners), 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 (winners)

Solheim Cup record[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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