Solheim Cup captain Suzann Pettersen says she has no regrets after Europe lost 15½-12½ to the United States, ending their five-year reign over the Solheim Cup.
Europe faced a daunting 6-2 deficit after Friday’s opening round but mounted a strong comeback on Sunday, winning the singles matches 6½-5½. At one point, they looked poised to secure the 14 points needed for an unprecedented fourth consecutive victory.
However, Pettersen’s decisions came under fire, particularly her choice to rest Ireland’s Leona Maguire – a standout from the last two tournaments – during Saturday’s foursomes and fourballs, where Europe and the US split points, leaving the US with a 10-6 lead heading into the final day.
“I’ve never lived my life regretting any decisions,” said Pettersen. “It’s a 12-woman team and it’s always going to be hard to do the pairings.
“Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get outplayed. Maybe we could have played other players that maybe could have faced different opponents that could have changed the outcome.
“You can always look back, but at the same time I don’t think we, as a team, have any regrets of what we did. We tried our best.”
The 2026 Solheim Cup will be held at Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt, near Eindhoven and the historic city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, with the event confirmed for September 7-13, 2026.
By 2026, it will have been 11 years since the American Solheim Cup team last secured a win on European soil, when Juli Inkster’s squad edged out a narrow 14½ – 13½ victory in Germany in 2015.
