2000 Solheim Cup

2000 Solheim Cup

Dates	6–8 October 2000
Venue	Loch Lomond Golf Club
Location	Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Captains	Dale Reid (Europe) Pat Bradley (USA)
14½ 11½
Europe wins the Solheim Cup

The 6th Solheim Cup Match was held between 6 October and 8 October 2000 at Loch Lomond Golf Club, Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Team Europe won the trophy for the second time by a score of 14½ to 11½ points. Carin Koch holed the winning putt, coming back from three down to beat Michele Redman.

Teams

The European team consisted of seven automatic qualifiers and five wild card picks from Captain Dale Reid.^[1] The US team consisted of 10 automatic qualifiers and two picks from Captain Pat Bradley.^[2]

Europe Captain Dale Reid – Ladybank, Scotland Automatic qualifiers Sophie Gustafson – Särö, Sweden Trish Johnson – Bristol, England Laura Davies – Coventry, England Alison Nicholas – Gibraltar Patricia Meunier-Lebouc – Dijon, France Raquel Carriedo – Zaragoza, Spain Annika Sörenstam – Stockholm, Sweden Captains Picks Helen Alfredsson – Gothenburg, Sweden Carin Koch – Kungälv, Sweden Janice Moodie – Glasgow, Scotland Liselotte Neumann – Finspång, Sweden Catrin Nilsmark – Gothenburg, Sweden

United States Captain Pat Bradley – Westford, Massachusetts Automatic qualifiers Juli Inkster – Santa Cruz, California Meg Mallon – Natick, Massachusetts Rosie Jones – Santa Ana, California Dottie Pepper – Saratoga Springs, New York Sherri Steinhauer – Madison, Wisconsin Pat Hurst – San Leandro, California Kelly Robbins – Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Michele Redman – Zanesville, Ohio Nancy Scranton – Centralia, Illinois Becky Iverson – Escanaba, Michigan Captains Picks Brandie Burton – San Bernardino, California Beth Daniel – Charleston, South Carolina

Format

A total of 26 points were available, divided among three periods of team play, followed by one period of singles play. The first period, on Friday morning, was four rounds of foursomes. This was repeated in the second period on Friday afternoon. The third period on Saturday was six rounds of fourballs in which all 24 players (12 from each team) took part. The final 12 points were decided in a round of singles matchplay. This was a slight change from the 1998 format and was not kept, as the 2002 match reverted to the 1998 format.

Day one

Friday, 6 October 2000

Morning foursomes

	Results
Davies/Nicholas	4 & 3	Inkster/Pepper
Johnson/Gustafson	3 & 2	Robbins/Hurst
Nilsmark/Koch	2 & 1	Burton/Iverson
Sörenstam/Moodie	1 up	Mallon/Daniel
4	Session	0
4	Overall	0

Afternoon foursomes

	Results
Davies/Nicholas	6 & 5	Jones/Iverson
Johnson/Gustafson	halved	Inkster/Steinhauer
Neumann/Alfredsson	1 up	Robbins/Hurst
Sörenstam/Moodie	1 up	Mallon/Daniel
1½	Session	2½
5½	Overall	2½

Day two

Saturday, 7 October 2000

Fourball

	Results
Johnson/Gustafson	3 & 2	Jones/Iverson
Nicholas/Alfredsson	3 & 2	Inkster/Steinhauer
Nilsmark/Koch	2 & 1	Scranton/Redman
Neumann/Meunier-Lebouc	halved	Pepper/Burton
Davies/Carriedo	halved	Mallon/Daniel
Sörenstam/Moodie	2 & 1	Robbins/Hurst
4	Session	2
9½	Overall	4½

Day three

Sunday, 8 October 2000

Singles

	Results
Annika Sörenstam	5 & 4	Juli Inkster
Sophie Gustafson	4 & 3	Brandie Burton
Helen Alfredsson	4 & 3	Beth Daniel
Trish Johnson	2 & 1	Dottie Pepper
Laura Davies	3 & 2	Kelly Robbins
Liselotte Neumann	halved	Pat Hurst
Alison Nicholas	halved	Sherri Steinhauer
Patricia Meunier-Lebouc	1 up	Meg Mallon
Catrin Nilsmark	1 up	Rosie Jones
Raquel Carriedo	3 & 2	Becky Iverson
Carin Koch	2 & 1	Michele Redman
Janice Moodie	1 up	Nancy Scranton
5	Session	7
14½	Overall	11½

Notes and references

1. "2000 Solheim Cup European Team". Retrieved 2007-04-20.
2. "2000 Solheim Cup US Team". Retrieved 2007-04-20.

External links

• 2000 Solheim Cup Match Results

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