Allisen Corpuz and Nelly Korda win a fifth straight Solheim Cup match

On a wet Friday morning at Bernardus Golf, Allisen Corpuz and Nelly Korda closed out Charley Hull and Lottie Woad 4&3 in the opening foursomes match of the Solheim Cup. The win made them the first partnership — from either side — to take five straight matches in the event’s history. Their record together is now 5-0-0.

Europe’s top pair birdied the first hole and went one up. That was about the last good news they got. The Americans answered on the second, then won three in a row from Nos. 6 through 8. Pars on 12 and 13 stretched the lead; a par on the 15th finished it. By lunch the session was tied, 2–2 — only the third opening-session deadlock in Solheim Cup history.

The other morning results filled out that split. Alison Lee and Lauren Coughlin beat Nanna Koerstz Madsen and Celine Boutier 3&2. Esther Henseleit and Leona Maguire took down Andrea Lee and Lindy Duncan 2 up. Maja Stark and Linn Grant beat Rose Zhang and Jennifer Kupcho 3&2.

Corpuz and Korda have won every foursomes match they have played together since Spain in 2023. They took both alternate-shot points that week, then both again when the United States won the Cup in Virginia in 2024 — margins of 1 up, 5&3, 3&2, and 1 up before Friday’s 4&3. Europeans Laura Davies and Alison Nicholas once banked five points together with a 5-4-0 record. Nobody had won five in a row until this Hawaii–Florida pairing did it in Cromvoirt.

U.S. captain Angela Stanford did not treat the first tee as a hard choice. “We can talk about Nelly, and we can talk about her being the No. 1 player in the world, but don’t sleep on Allisen,” Stanford said before the matches. “Allisen, I’ve called her the backbone of our team. She’s pretty tough.” Corpuz, from Honolulu — Filipino father from the Ilocos region, Korean mother, Punahou and USC — won the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach. Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols noted how her accuracy off the tee fits Korda’s approach game: one steadies the ball, the other moves it.

Corpuz keeps the partnership light. “I always make the joke to Nelly, like, it’s so nice to be 30 yards ahead of where I would be on my own drive, it just makes the hole so much easier,” she said. Korda called her a solid player she can rely on — and said they have fun out there.

The Americans are defending champions after beating Europe 15½–12½ in Virginia two years ago. They have not won a Solheim Cup on European soil since Germany in 2015. Friday’s afternoon four-balls split the stars: Corpuz tees it up with Auston Kim against Mimi Rhodes and Nastasia Nadaud; Korda goes with Coughlin against Carlota Ciganda and Julia López Ramírez. Yealimi Noh and Angel Yin open against Hull and Woad. Megan Khang and Alison Lee face Boutier and Koerstz Madsen.

Five straight foursomes wins does not retain a Cup by itself. It does tell you who Stanford trusts when the first ball goes up in the rain — and why a Hawaiian major champion keeps showing up next to the world No. 1 when the United States needs a point on foreign grass.