While the teams have only seen a different nine each at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, every player that came to the media centre on Tuesday (US time) laughed at how much easier getting around the course is compared to the hilly Finca Cortesin nestled among the Estepona Mountains in Andalucia, Spain, a year ago.
Linn Grant says that to be able to handle the extreme loft of the 60-degree wedge, you have to practise with it a lot and a lot of amateurs simply don’t have enough time to do that.
Swede Sebastian Soderberg’s implosion at the DP World Tour’s Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed event in his home country allowed countrywoman Linn Grant to claim the title for the second time.
All eight players in line for automatic spots heading into the week held their places, while six of the eight qualifiers have previous experience in the Solheim Cup.
Earlier this month, the US government lifted its COVID-19 vaccination requirements for international travellers coming from overseas, which kept Grant from coming stateside last year after playing two seasons of college golf at Arizona State University and earning her LPGA card at Q-Series in December 2021.
Let’s take an end-of-year detour now and tip our caps to the moments that we’ve almost already forgotten, giving them one last moment in the sun before the calendar flips and they become even more distant in time’s rearview.
It also counts as a win on the Ladies European Tour, which co-sanctioned the event that pitted a field of 78 men and 78 women, playing from two sets of tees but in a single tournament for a $US2 million overall purse.