GAINESVILLE, Va. – If it wasn’t a celebration earlier than, with the DJ and ear-aching music blaring all through Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership, it was when Alison Lee holed out in Saturday afternoon’s fourballs.
Lee spun in a wedge from 86 yards on the par-4 second for eagle. In response, Lee’s caddie and the caddie for her accomplice, Megan Khang, took off their shirts, gave bro hugs and ran wild.
There was a backstory to the celebration, in accordance with Golf Channel on-course reporter Kay Cockerill. She mentioned throughout the telecast that Khang’s caddie, Jack Fulghum, urged on the second tee that if any participant holed out, the caddies would pay them $500. Lee, whose caddie is Taylor “Shota” Takada, mentioned no, that if certainly one of them holed out, the caddies needed to take off their shirts.
Fifteen minutes later the shirts and bibs have been gone.
Khang did all she may to not douse her teammate with the bottle of water in her hand. U.S. captain Stacy Lewis, surrounded by vice captains and gamers on the primary tee, have been in a position to see the extreme celebration on a large monitor.
The shot received the opening for the U.S. aspect to place them 1 up over Europe’s Anna Nordqvist and Madelene Sagstrom.
