US team has 'unfinished business' with Europe - Korda

World fig 1 Nelly Korda says the United States person "unfinished business" arsenic they bid to halt Europe winning the Solheim Cup a grounds 4th consecutive time.

The 19th variation of the transatlantic tussle gets nether mode connected Friday astatine the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club successful Gainesville, Virginia, with the hosts aiming for a archetypal triumph since their 16½ - 11½ occurrence astatine Des Moines 7 years ago.

And Korda appears peculiarly motivated this clip around, with her 2&1 decision by Carlota Ciganda which allowed Europe to clasp the trophy astatine Finca Cortesin 12 months ago, caller successful the memory.

"Whenever you get to deterioration the red, white, and bluish and stars and stripes, there's a antithetic meaning to it," said Korda.

"You're playing not conscionable for yourself, but for your captains, for your team-mates and your country, and there's conscionable thing similar it. We person got immoderate unfinished business."

Korda comes into the contention arsenic the biggest sanction successful women’s play aft a stellar run to date, with the 26-year-old triumphing astatine the Chevron Championship successful April and six times successful full connected the LPGA Tour successful 2024.

However, she is yet to sensation occurrence successful the biggest squad contention successful women's play having besides played successful US defeats astatine Gleneagles successful 2019 and the Inverness Club successful 2021.

"Obviously I haven't been connected the winning side, but each acquisition I've had successful the Solheim Cups has been an astonishing one," added Korda, who practised alongside Allisen Corpuz connected Tuesday.

The duo won some their foursomes matches successful Spain and are expected to reprise their palmy concern erstwhile skipper Stacy Lewis announces her archetypal acceptable of pairings connected Thursday afternoon.

"I deliberation it's thing super-exciting excessively and refreshing to person a team-mate, person team-mates and captains and radical to thin connected erstwhile you usually don't," added Korda.

"There's thing similar it. There's thing similar walking connected to that archetypal tee and feeling each those nerves. We person a large radical of girls. We person a large radical of guys. We person a large captain. We person truly large adjunct captains. Hopefully it each falls into spot and we play immoderate truly bully play for the fans retired present this week."