{"id":12149,"date":"2025-03-21T06:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/2026-solheim-cup-angela-stanford-to-captain-united-states-team\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T06:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:31:43","slug":"2026-solheim-cup-angela-stanford-to-captain-united-states-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/2026-solheim-cup-angela-stanford-to-captain-united-states-team\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Solheim Cup: Angela Stanford to captain United States team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely grateful to be named the next American captain for the Solheim Cup and join a list of my heroes in the game,&#8221; said Stanford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always believed that I represent more than myself on the LPGA Tour, and there is no greater honour than representing your country.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I consider this the pinnacle of my career and I&#8217;m looking forward to leading our players to the Netherlands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stanford, who won seven times on the LPGA Tour, retired from playing in 2024 after 24 years as a professional.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She played in 98 consecutive majors, the longest streak in LPGA history, with her lone major success arriving at the Evian Championship when she was 40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stanford has three wins and three losses from her Solheim Cup appearances as a player.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cwye0x9498no\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely grateful to be named the next American captain for the Solheim Cup and join a list of my heroes in the game,&#8221; said Stanford. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always believed that I represent more than myself on the LPGA Tour, and there is no greater honour than representing your country. &#8220;I consider this the pinnacle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}