{"id":6531,"date":"2025-06-03T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/brittany-lang-was-appointed-assistant-captain-of-the-26-solheim-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:21:52","slug":"brittany-lang-was-appointed-assistant-captain-of-the-26-solheim-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/brittany-lang-was-appointed-assistant-captain-of-the-26-solheim-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Lang was appointed assistant captain of the &#8217;26 Solheim Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>US Solheim Cup captain Angela Stanford has named major champion Brittany Lang as the third assistant captain of next year&#8217;s Solheim Cup at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lang, 39, who counts the 2016 US Women&#8217;s Open among two LPGA Tour titles, joins Stanford and fellow assistants Kristy McPherson and Paula Creamer, leading a group of top 12 American female golfers facing Europe at the Biennial team event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is probably one of the best honors I&#8217;ve had in my career. I&#8217;m excited to learn, help and experience the atmosphere as an assistant captain,&#8221; Lang said.<\/p>\n<p>Lang represented the US to the US Solheim Cup team in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, and his four-ball partnership with Brittany Lincicome was the most successful on either side of the event&#8217;s history, making it a perfect 4-0-0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The traits that always impressed me the most about Brittany are her confidence and attitude,&#8221; Stanford said. &#8220;If Lang has ever been rattle, you&#8217;ll never know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US regained the Solheim Cup in Gainesville, Virginia in September, stopping Europe from winning the trophy for the fourth consecutive unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>The Solheim Cup will be held on September 11-13, 2026 when the US bid for its first road victory since 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Solheim Cup captain Angela Stanford has named major champion Brittany Lang as the third assistant captain of next year&#8217;s Solheim Cup at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands on Tuesday. Lang, 39, who counts the 2016 US Women&#8217;s Open among two LPGA Tour titles, joins Stanford and fellow assistants Kristy McPherson and Paula Creamer, leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-6531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}