Lewis has now helped her team earn a tie in Spain in 2023 and a streak-snapping home victory this year at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, sweating out a 15½-12½ win to lift the Solheim Cup for the first time since 2017.
The LPGA, beyond a statement acknowledging the transportation challenge, did not provide an answer to multiple requests to confirm the timeline of what happened.
If the US side doesn’t win this week, the Americans could go to the Netherlands in 2026 trying to snap an almost decade-long winless streak with no players potentially having ever won a Solheim Cup.
US Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis felt the game missed a chance to promote itself with the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup being held in the same year in 2023. Her next big suggestion for the two tours to grow the game is to make the Presidents Cup a blended event.
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.
US Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis announced overnight (Australian time) that she’d chosen Jennifer Kupcho, Sarah Schmelzel and Lexi Thompson with her captain’s picks to complete the 12-player roster.
For the third time in succession (after Europe’s narrow wins in 2019 and 2021), the Solheim Cup provided the sort of excitement that puts the recently predictable and rather pedestrian Ryder Cup to shame.
The American and European teams really do have all to play for to settle a struggle that has morphed from a US rout into a closely fought battle that could go either way.
With just more than 28 percent of the 28 games completed, maybe the only thing we know for sure is that the sides are, as many suspected, closely matched.
The PGA of America, which jointly runs the Ryder Cup with the DP World Tour, defended itself overnight in response to comments made by U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis.
The ordeal was a stressful start to the week, with Kang putting out pleas for help on social media and her captain Stacy Lewis working behind the scenes to locate the missing bag.
Australian Golf Digest
