Maria Hjorth helped the Europeans make a stunning comeback in the morning session. 2005 Solheim Cup Euros Two Up with Two Days to Play By Sports Network - September 09, 2005 CARMEL, Ind. -- Europe and America split the afternoon fourballs on Friday, but the European side is two points ahead at 5-3 after day one of the Solheim Cup. The most exciting match of the fourballs featured world No. 1 Annika Sorenstam. She and Catriona Matthew defeated Pat Hurst and Wendy Ward, 2 and 1. Maria Hjorth helped the Europeans make a stunning comeback in the morning session.Rosie Jones and Meg Mallon, a pair of veterans who sat out on Friday morning, bested Maria Hjorth and Iben Tinning, 3 and 2. Cristie Kerr and Natalie Gulbis returned Friday afternoon and dispatched Europe's Sophie Gustafson and Karen Stupples, 2 and 1. Laura Davies, the only player to compete in all nine Solheim Cups, was outstanding Friday afternoon. She teamed with Suzann Pettersen to handle a highly anticipated American tandem of Paula Creamer and Juli Inkster, 4 and 3. In Friday morning's foursomes, the U.S. was comfortably ahead in three of the matches until the Europeans caught fire on the back nine. The session ended with two halves and two losses for the U.S., but this is nothing new for the American side. The U.S. has not held sole possession of the lead after the first day of a Solheim Cup since the 1998 edition at Muirfield Village in Ohio. The Sorenstam-Matthew/Hurst-Ward match started out with four halves until Ward won the fifth with a birdie. Hurst two-putted from 8 feet for a par and a win at the eighth to move the Americans 2-up. The Europeans wasted little time in cutting the gap as they made birdie at the ninth. Sorenstam then took over. At the 10th, she sank a 15-foot birdie putt and both Americans missed from inside Sorenstam's putt and the match was even. Sorenstam birdied 12, but Ward had a chance to halve the hole. Her 7-footer hit the cup and lipped out and now the European side was 1-up. Hurst and Sorenstam halved the 14th with birdies, but Sorenstam took advantage of the next par-5, No. 15. She missed the green with her second, but chipped to 3 feet and tapped in the short birdie putt to move 2-up. The teams halved 16 and Sorenstam hit her tee ball to 25 feet at the 17th. Ward played her shot 10 feet right of the hole, but a long delay might have knocked her out of her rhythm. Sorenstam had a gigantic spike mark in her line and asked for a ruling. She was denied, but it took several minutes to sort out the situation. Sorenstam missed her birdie try, then Ward once again lipped out. Matthew rolled in a 3-footer for par and the win. "It was a big spike mark and I was wondering if there was something we could do about it," said Sorenstam. "Obviously I know the rules, but I was thinking we could tweak it this time. "We played great today. She let me play some golf on the back. We're happy with the match." Jones was outstanding from the beginning. She birdied five of the first seven holes to give the American side a 3-up lead, a margin the Europeans could never overcome.