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From Iain Carter
BBC golf correspondent
There has been so much to observe at a dramatic Solheim Cup victory that generated iconic golfing memories that will last a lifetime.
As the Scottish sun shone and Suzann Pettersen throw a very long shadow on Gleneagles’ 18th green until holing the putt, the sport couldn’t have asked for a better orgasm.
This is a women’s sporting event which had created crowds and those 90,000 crowds were rewarded with real, spine-tingling sporting play.
This thrilling denouement sits with people we recall in Ryder Cups at Medinah (2012), Oak Hill (1995) along with Kiawah Island (1991) as well as the Solheim success at Killeen Castle in 2011.
Truly the parallels with that success in Ireland are difficult to dismiss. Europe had to win the three singles matches as Catriona Matthew’s team needed to at Scotland on Sunday.
We wondered what it might imply in Europe when the dust settled on that victory eight years ago. Could it be the catalyst to regenerate the Ladies European Tour?
The answer was shown to be a resounding’no’, despite having a win in the United States.
In recent years the LET has contracted which its players struggle to create a living. Therefore it would be naive to believe that the victory at Gleneagles will create much material difference.
But here’s a golden opportunity for the feminine game increase and to develop. Anyone who watched the putt and the ebbs and flows that preceded it of Pettersen will know about the sport’s capacity.
Here is a minute make and to capitalise the heroines of the success figures inside the sporting firmament of Europe. It is.
Pettersen supplied the ultimate sporting fairytale. She threatens to return to retirement having played the last two years.
The Allied heads straight back to the shadows but for holding her nerve on that last putt with status.
She is certainly a Solheim skipper – even to the trophy defence in two years’ time? Equally, Matthew could fancy another crack.
She was an exceptional leader, boldly although quietly going about her business. It was a large call despite insisting it was never a bet to pick Pettersen for a Solheim Cup.
To parachute in a golfer who had little competition in a long time took courage – however, it was an inspired move.
Her choice exemplifies a lack of strength in depth at the peak of the sport that is European. This leave the putt of Pettersen insignificant and would have been the topic of the post mortems had Marina Alex birdied the past for the Americans.
These will be the margins. The US newcomer missed her putt, Pettersen pounced and the top women of Europe can devote this week nursing hangovers.
The form of both Georgia Hall along with Celine Boutier (another inspired wildcard) who won four games out of four supply additional reason for celebration – particularly for the English player, who has struggled for much of this year.
This is a massive week to the 23-year-old from Bournemouth, that reminded us title.
Gleneagles may prove a career turning point that sets her back on track.
Her compatriot Bronte Law is. Already a winner on the LPGA Tour showed steel onto her introduction to catch the win which set up the huge second of Pettersen.
These triumphs provide cause for optimism, however also the women’s game has to address its own rate of play to get any chance of prosperous.
They must not, although amid the scenes that are celebratory it would be easy for the rounds on Saturday day to evaporate in the memory.
Yes states were brutal, but there was no justification.
The men’s European Tour says it is getting tough on the slow trainers, there are possible moves also on the PGA Tour although LET and the LPGA have to get in front of the game.
Referees need to authorities rate of play with penalties for people who take too long because they’re destroying the spectacle. And Gleneagles past Sunday proved golfing – and women’s golf in particular – is highly watchable.
That creates opportunities build the game to arrest decline and take advantage of this expanding movement for sport.
But when the activity is permitted to stay because it had been in the Friday and Saturday fourball sessions as turgidly slow golf doesn’t have any possibility of capitalising.
That would be a travesty in the wake of a success.
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