U.S. Solheim Cup Captain Angela Stanford named main champion Brittany Lang on Tuesday as her third assistant captain for subsequent 12 months’s Solheim Cup at Bernardus Golf within the Netherlands.
The 39-year-old Lang, who counts the 2016 U.S. Ladies’s Open amongst her two titles on the LPGA Tour, will be a part of Stanford and fellow assistants Kristy McPherson and Paula Creamer in main a gaggle of the highest 12 American feminine golfers towards Europe within the biennial group occasion.
“That is most likely one of many highest honors I’ve had in my profession. I am excited to be taught, to assist and to expertise the environment as an assistant captain,” Lang mentioned.
Lang represented the US on the 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 U.S. Solheim Cup groups and her four-ball partnership with Brittany Lincicome is essentially the most profitable for both aspect within the occasion’s historical past, going an ideal 4-0-0.
“The traits which have all the time impressed me essentially the most about Brittany are her confidence and her demeanor,” mentioned Stanford. “If Lang has ever been rattled, you’d by no means know.”
The US reclaimed the Solheim Cup in September in Gainesville, Virginia to cease Europe from profitable the trophy for an unprecedented fourth consecutive time.
The Solheim Cup might be held September 11-13, 2026 when the U.S. will bid for his or her first highway win since 2015.
