U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis speaks to the media on Wednesday.
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The Solheim Cup has not been resistant to controversy, and this 12 months’s occasion is not any completely different — and the competitors hasn’t even began but.
The most recent incident? It includes housing. However the excellent news right here is that it already appears to be put to mattress.
The nineteenth taking part in of the Solheim Cup is at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership in Gainesville, Va., which has a few half-dozen homes scattered among the many observe space. Two of them have been reserved as “crew rooms” for the U.S. and European squads — though they’re all staying off-site at motels — and because the host crew the Individuals acquired first choose on the home they needed. The Europeans then took the opposite.
However it didn’t finish there. Whereas the Individuals cherished their spot — eight loos, eight showers and the bigger of the 2 properties — the Europeans have been truly nearer to the driving vary.
“I don’t know in the event that they’re proud of their selection,” stated European veteran Anna Nordqvist, “however we’re clearly very completely satisfied to be proper there on the vary.”
Sky Sports activities’ Jamie Weir defined the scenario on Wednesday, reporting that the U.S. was claiming among the issues the European crew was doing — opening the hooked up hitting bays, having tables and chairs outdoors, and so on. — have been in violation of Solheim Cup contracts.
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“They’re proper on the very again of the vary. They’ve their music taking part in on a regular basis, whereas the U.S. crew has to come back out of their home, stroll previous the European crew home and all the way in which right down to the opposite finish of the vary to get to their facet of the vary,” Weir stated. “[Captain] Suzann Pettersen enjoys taking part in her tunes as nicely, and I believe that has acquired below the pores and skin of the U.S., and they’re claiming that of their contract of the Solheim Cup this isn’t allowed.”
U.S. captain Stacy Lewis addressed the scenario on Wednesday.
“The closeness is a bit bit awkward with the driving vary and every thing being proper there, however we’ve labored via a number of issues,” she stated. “We’ve labored via a number of points. However we’re in a great spot now.”
As for a few of these “points” Lewis talked about?
“Their crew room sort of exploded onto the driving vary a bit bit, however we reeled it in. It’s all good,” Lewis stated. “We adjusted the way in which the vary was arrange a bit bit and moved the U.S. crew additional down so Europe may do what they needed principally.
“The within of their cottage doesn’t have a number of room for tables, so their tables need to be outdoors,” she continued. “It was simply our gamers have been warming up, and so they’re there consuming breakfast and speaking. We have been simply making an attempt to get everyone some house in order that they didn’t need to take heed to them consuming breakfast. That’s all. There’s no dangerous beef.”
Though if this seems to be the most important controversy the Solheim Cup sees this week, the following few days must be a breeze. It is going to be laborious to prime what occurred final 12 months in Rome, when “HatGate” — and a screaming match that occurred within the car parking zone — took over the 2023 Ryder Cup.
The Solheim Cup tees off for its first day of competitors on Friday morning.
“I believe on the finish of the day, this can be a pleasant competitors between the U.S. and Europe,” Nordqvist stated. “Yeah, we’re going to essentially need to win, however I believe that’s what so nice in regards to the Solheim Cup is that win or lose, on the finish of the day, I believe ladies’s golf wins coming Sunday afternoon.”
