SUNNINGDALE, England — Hannah Darling gained her third match of the week, teaming with Mimi Rhodes for a 3-and-2 victory in fourballs Saturday as Nice Britain & Eire took a 7-5 lead over the Individuals within the Curtis Cup.
GB&I is attempting to win the Curtis Cup for the primary time since 2016 and finish the U.S. streak of three in a row. Sunday’s decisive session options eight singles matches.
Darling teamed with Aine Donegan for a 1-up victory over Auburn teammates Anna Davis and Megan Schofill in morning foursomes. Darling additionally gained in the one matches she performed on Friday.
The morning foursomes ended with every staff profitable a match and halving the opposite. GB&I seized management within the afternoon as Lorna McClymont and Beth Coulter defeated Davis and Melanie Inexperienced, 2 and 1.
GB&I used to be poised to comb the fourballs session when Lottie Woad and Sara Byrne led 1 up with two to play. Schofill and Rachel Kuehn gained the seventeenth to sq. the match and the 18th was halved.
The eight singles matches begin with 15-year-old Asterisk Talley dealing with Woad, the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Newbie champion and the No. 1 participant on the planet novice rating.
The US has a 31-8-3 edges within the Curtis Cup, which dates to 1932. The Individuals have gained by at the very least 5 factors every of the final three matches.
