An update from the European Solheim Cup Captain following the Amundi Evian Championship and Team practice.
“I’m just leaving the Netherlands and Bernardus Golf where we had team practice the last two days. With two qualifying tournaments left and still a lot on the line, I brought 11 girls to the Solheim Cup venue this week to play the course and hang out together. I’m excited to see a lot of the hard work and planning fall into place and now the Solheim Cup is only two months away, you can tell everyone is getting a little more serious about it and both the excitement and anticipation is building. I was joined by my vice-captain Anne van Dam and team helper Becky Brewerton in the Netherlands; it sure takes a village to make this happen and I am very grateful for everyone offering their help and support to Team Europe.
I admire everyone’s energy and enthusiasm coming here, especially coming here straight after playing our fourth major of the year, the Amundi Evian Championship, last week!
As a European, we all embrace this time of year “finally” coming home for a European stretch of tournaments and being able to go home in between the tournaments. We had a lot of European success in Evian and I’m looking forward to following the girls for the final two qualifying events, the ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open and the AIG Women’s Open, before the team is finalised on Aug 3 with my four captain’s picks announced in the Sky Sports studio in London that day.
There are a lot of hard phone calls ahead of me having to deliver both good news to the players making it and not such good news to the players not getting a spot on the team this year. But it also means we are one step closer to the event, and that is very exciting.”
