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.
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.