GAINESVILLE, Va. – Lexi Thompson will get her Suzann Pettersen second Sunday.
Native turns into U.S. Solheim Cup hero with clinching putt.
Lilia Vu birdies remaining two holes to present Individuals first Solheim Cup victory since 2017.
That’s the one. Print it.
Storylines modified by the shot on Sunday as digital leaderboards at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership stored updating, altering the mathematics for what the US wanted to prevail and what Europe wanted to outlive.
Happily for the house group, it didn’t want many factors within the singles session – simply 4½ of them. Thanks to a few large wins early, it appeared not a matter of if the U.S. would win however how the state of affairs would finally play out.
How the U.S. defeated Europe to win the nineteenth Solheim Cup at Robert Trent Jones GC.
Who would get that time or half-point to lastly finish the Individuals’ Solheim Cup distress?
Talking of distress, U.S. captain Stacy Lewis was struggling. She was so shut and simply wanted somebody to shut it out.
“That was the longest hour and a half of my life, I’m not going to lie,” Lewis mentioned of the time between reaching 13 factors and eventually getting the requisite 14½.
Thompson would have been the proper protagonist, and together with her positioning in the midst of the lineup, it nearly felt anticipated that she’d ship that second. However when have issues gone as anticipated with Lexi? Three up by means of 11 holes, she misplaced, 1 up, to Celine Boutier. She had a 10-footer on the final that, at worst, would have earned a half-point and, at greatest, pressured Boutier into lacking her 5-footer.
Possibly, simply perhaps, she’d make her putt, it might win the Solheim Cup, and he or she’d name it a profession. As a substitute, it slid sharply previous the suitable edge, by no means threatening the opening.
Subsequent up was Lauren Coughlin, a Virginia native who had by no means gained on tour till not too long ago after which managed to take action twice. She had a 15-footer that outright would have sealed it. It, too, missed.
