GAINESVILLE, Va. — The bet was set on the second tee of Alison Lee and Megan Khang’s Saturday four-ball match at the Solheim Cup. According to Golf Channel, Khang’s looper Jack Fulghum told the American players that if anyone holed out, the caddies would dish out $500. Lee countered immediately saying that they’d have to take their shirts off.
Only 10 minutes later, Fulghum and Lee’s looper Taylor Takada would pay up.
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Lee was in Robert Trent Jones Golf Club’s second fairway 86 yards away from the flag. She hit a crisp wedge, which landed just past the pin and ripped back in for a hole-out eagle to go 1 up over Madelene Sagstrom and Anna Nordqvist.
Fulghum and Takada started celebrating with fist pumps. As the camera followed Lee, the caddies took their shirts off, celebrating like they had won the Solheim Cup. Fulghum gave Lee a high-five before the caddies gave each other a skin-on-skin hug. Watch the wild reaction here:
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U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis and the rest of her team on the tee box could only look on and laugh.
“They’re having fun and they’re going and playing golf,” Lewis told Golf Channel. “Just not surprised.”
Lee’s eagle is the early highlight of her first Solheim Cup since 2015. She lost with Lexi Thompson in Friday afternoon four-ball 6 and 5 against Anna Nordqvist and Madelene Sagstrom. Lee’s first Solheim Cup came nine years ago when the then 20-year-old went 1-3 in Germany as part of the U.S.’s 14½ to 13½ victory.
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
