Leona Maguire and Celine Boutier chosen to represent Europe at the Solheim Cup

Duke women’s golf alums Leona Maguire and Celine Boutier will represent Europe at the Solheim Cup in September.

Two Duke women’s golf alums will take the stage at the Solheim Cup next month. They’ll just do so for Team Europe.

Leona Maguire of Ireland and Celine Boutier of France, both of whom played their college golf for the Blue Devils, officially made the European team on Tuesday.

The Solheim Cup pits the 12 best American and European women’s golfers against each other for a series of matches over three days, an exhibition that has become one of the most emotionally charged events on the golf calendar.

Neither player comes as a surprise announcement. Boutier has been on each of the last three European teams, and she won her first major in 2023 as part of a breakout four-win season.

Maguire, who won the ANNIKA Award as the nation’s best collegiate golfer twice with Duke, has been on each of the last two Solheim Cup teams.

The European team hasn’t lost the biannual competition since 2017, winning in 2019 and 2021 before retaining the cup with a tie last year (due to scheduling conflicts created during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Solheim Cup switched back to even years beginning this fall).

The 2024 Solheim Cup kicks off on September 13 at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia.