CROMVOIRT, Netherlands — For the first time in Solheim Cup history, both sessions on the first day ended in 2-2 ties.

Europe, hosting the 20th edition of the tournament at Bernardus Golf, and the United States could not be separated after a first day filled with chanting, fancy dress and 1,447 bicycles ridden by spectators to the course.

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Friday began with a Dutch orange sunrise lighting up thousands of noisy fans on the first tee grandstand. It ended with the sun setting on more European raucousness as Spaniard Carlota Ciganda, in her eighth consecutive Solheim Cup appearance, pulled out an incredible putt to salvage half a point…

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