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Solheim Cup: How a revolutionary club sparked a golf revolution
Six of the 10 players in that 1992 American team would go on to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame – Betsy King, Beth Daniel, Patty Sheehan, Pat Bradley, Juli Inkster and Meg Mallon. Their players boasted 21 major titles between them, to just two on the European side – Laura Davies and Liselotte Neumann.
The US were red-and-white-hot favourites.
But they lost captain Kathy Whitworth, winner of an LPGA record 88 tournaments, who returned home on the day they arrived at Dalmahoy, following the death of her mother.
Whitworth had been inspirational in leading the US team to the first victory at Lake Nona, Florida in 1990 by pairing “personalities rather than anything directly related to golf”, according to Dottie Mochrie (formerly Pepper).
And then major winner Daniel stirred the pot, while talking to a US golf magazine. “You could put any one of us on the European side and make it better, but the only Europeans who could help us are Laura Davies and Liselotte Neumann,” she was reported as saying.
Sporting history is littered with such statements that only serve to fuel the underdogs, and while Daniel disputes she made those comments, Walker recalls it differently: “She said it.
“And, of course, what she said was absolutely right, but when somebody tells you you can’t do something, or that they’re better than you, you think ‘I’ll show you’.
“It wasn’t nice for us to hear and it made us want to beat them even more.”
Daniel was made to chew over her words on the first morning.
England’s Davies had won just one of her four major titles by 1992, but was well on her way to becoming one of the best in the world. She won all three of her matches at Dalmahoy, including the opening foursomes where she teamed up with Alison Nicholas to beat Betsy King – and Daniel, of course.
Davies and Nicholas then defeated Sheehan and Inkster on day two as Europe opened a one-point lead to take into Sunday’s singles. Davies again led the team out, winning the top match against Brandie Burton to set the platform as Europe dominated the final day 7-3 for the unlikeliest 11½-6½ triumph.
“It was Laura’s best performance playing for Europe – she was unbeatable and just brilliant, a natural leader,” remembers Walker.
The weather also played its part.
“It was October in Scotland and horrendous,” says Walker.
“It was wet, it rained, the course was waterlogged and if it had been a regular tournament we wouldn’t have played.
“It was miserable, but we were used to those conditions. The Americans absolutely hated it. They didn’t really do horrendous conditions and that played into our favour.”
In fact, it took until Loch Lomond in 2000, again in typical autumnal Scottish weather, for the Europeans to triumph for a second time.
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The one all-Premiership tie – and probably the least predictable – takes Dundee United to Motherwell on Friday evening in a meeting of two clubs looking to end a decades-long League Cup drought.
United have not lifted the League Cup since beating city rivals Dundee in the 1980 final, while Motherwell’s wait is even longer, having last won the trophy back in 1950, when they defeated Hibernian.
Indeed, neither side have gone beyond the quarter-finals since they last progressed to the final.
Motherwell defeated Aberdeen 3-0 seven years ago, before knocking out Rangers in the semi-finals and falling short in their bid for an Old Firm double against Celtic.
Two years earlier, United beat Hibernian on penalties after a 3-3 draw, overcame Aberdeen in the last four but also lost to Celtic in the final.
Celtic were also Well’s nemesis when the Lanarkshire side and United last reached the quarter-finals two years ago, the Glasgow visitors easing to a 4-0 win while the Tangerines were losing 2-1 in Kilmarnock.
The current sides go into Friday’s quarter-final looking to recover from top-flight defeats that ended three-game winning runs.
Stuart Kettlewell’s hosts fell 2-1 away to Aberdeen, while Jim Goodwin’s United had their impressive eight-game unbeaten sequence brought to an end by Rangers’ single-goal win at Tannadice.
Recent meetings are also no guide to Friday’s outcome considering United have spent a season winning the Championship since losing 3-2 at Fir Park in their last meeting – with United having won there a month previously.
Their knock-out meetings tend to be tight affairs too, with United winning 2-1 at Fir Park in the Scottish Cup fourth round in November 2014, while Alan Gow’s goal was enough to take hosts Motherwell through to the League Cup semi-finals in October 2010.
Another close game is in prospect under the Fir Park lights.
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Bath are not letting pressure to win a trophy affect them as they go into the new Premiership campaign, says head of rugby Johann van Graan.
Bath finished runners-up to Northampton in last season’s final at Twickenham in a rollercoaster match that saw them come from behind with 14 men to almost clinch victory in the final play of the game.
The club have not won a league trophy since 1996 and begin the new season with a reunion against Saints at the Recreation Ground on Friday.
“Obviously we want to win a trophy. We’ve never said that we don’t want to. But we are not in the [business of] predicting when this will happen,” Van Graan told BBC Radio Somerset.
“Hopefully it happens sooner rather than later and us as a group have tasted it – we were literally one play away from winning it and there’s no guarantee you’ll get back there again.”
The 2024-25 campaign is Van Graan’s third at the helm with the club progressing rapidly since he took over.
Most of the squad from last season has been retained and the South African hopes the continuity across the staff and playing squad continues the upward trajectory this season.
Lock Ross Molony and back row Guy Pepper are among just four new arrivals.
“In terms of pressure, Bath haven’t won a trophy for a very long time. The only pressure we have is the pressure that we have internally – we want to be part of something special,” Van Graan said.
“But what sport teaches you is if you win a game it doesn’t mean that you’re successful, and if you lose a game it doesn’t mean you’re unsuccessful.”
Aaron Rodgers starred for the New York Jets in their dominant 24-3 home victory against the New England Patriots.
The 40-year-old threw for two touchdowns in his first start at the Jets’ MetLife Stadium since he suffered a season-ending torn Achilles tendon on his debut one year ago.
Rodgers, named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player four times during his long career with the Green Bay Packers, was given a warm reception in the Jets’ first home game of the season.
“I felt pretty good. I was doing some things I did as a younger man,” Rodgers said.
“I feel great to be able to play an entire game in front of our amazing fans.”
In their opening two games of the new season the Jets lost at the San Francisco 49ers before winning at the Tennessee Titans.
Rodgers, who made his return to action in the opening-weekend loss in San Francisco, completed 27 of 35 passes for 281 yards on Thursday.
He had a stellar career with Green Bay, helping them win the Super Bowl in 2011, before a surprise trade was agreed with the Jets last year.
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