Solheim Cup 2021: Anna Nordqvist and Matilda Castren will play Europe in the four on Saturday | Golf News

Georgia Hall is reuniting with partners Celine Boutier and Mel Reid by Irish debutant Leon Maguire; Charley Hull also performs in the inaugural session with Emily Kristine Pedersen – watch live on Saturday from noon at Sky Sports Golf

AIG Women’s Open Championship champion Anna Nordqvist is a partner of Solheim Cup rookie Matilda Castren in Saturday’s opening match in Ohio.

Nordqvist, who qualified for her seventh consecutive appearance at the Solheim Cup, winning her third major title last month, is one of three surviving players from the only European victory on American soil in 2013.

Castren was one of the captains ’selections of Catrione Matthew after winning the breakthrough on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour this season, and all Scandinavian pairing started at 7.35 local time (12.35pm BST) against Danielle Kang and Austin Ernst.

Matthew, hoping to lead Europe to victory in the Solheim Cup, stayed with the winning formula from his dramatic 14.5-13.5 win at Gleneagles by pairing Georgia Hall and Celine Boutier once again.

Hall and Boutier won all three matches together in 2019, and both finished the week with a 100% record, winning individual matches as well, and the pair hoped to extend the race against Ally Ewing and Megan Khang.

U.S. national team captain Pat Hurst left with experience, leaving all three of her debutants off the team list in the opening session, and four-time Solheim Cup player Lizette Salas joined Jennifer Kupcho, Yealimi Noh and Mini Harigae in the four.

World number one Nelly Korda and sister Jessica, the only two undefeated players in the 2019 U.S. defeat, will face Mel Reid, the Scottish vice-captain, and Leon Maguire, who will become the first Irish player to ever compete in the Solheim Cup.

Charley Hull teams up with Emily Kristine Pedersen for Europe in the final game of the four, where she will play against Lexi Thompson and Brittany Altomare, while none of Carlot Cigande, Sophie Popov, Nanna Koerstz Madsen and Madelene Sagstrom will visit guests on Saturday morning.

Schedule (all times by BST)

1235 Anna Nordqvist and Matilda Castren v. Danielle Kang and Austin Ernst

1247 Georgia Hall and Celine Boutier v. Ally Ewing and Megan Khang

1259 Mel Reid and Leona Maguire v. Nelly Korda and Jessica Korda

1311 Charley Hull and Emily Kristine Pedersen v. Lexi Thompson and Brittany Altomare

Watch the Solheim Cup live on Sky Sports. The live broadcast starts on Saturday at noon on Sky Sports Golf and – free of charge – on the Sky Sports Golf YouTube channel.