GAINESVILLE, Va. — The opening matches of the Solheim Cup started in entrance of half-empty grandstands surrounding the primary tee at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership on Friday morning, with transportation points stopping followers from attending to the golf course.
Followers posted on social media that they have been caught for hours ready in traces for buses at Jiffy Lube Stay, a live performance venue close to the golf course about 40 miles west of Washington, D.C.
“2 hours within the car parking zone and solely 200 yard from the entrance it’s a shame refunds have to be issued,” one fan, Jon Davidson, wrote on X.
“I’ve been in line for about an hour and solely moved 15 toes… And I had hopes of creating it to the primary tee,” wrote Jason Berstein.
Within the 20 minutes earlier than the matches started, a small trickle of followers speed-walked towards the grandstand, however there was no signal of the report crowds that organizers had promised.
“We acknowledge and deeply apologize to all followers affected by the challenges with shuttling from parking to the golf course,” the LPGA stated in a press release on X. “We’ve made vital modifications to our transportation system to mitigate these points shifting ahead, and we’re engaged on methods to specific our remorse to these impacted.”
Esther Henseleit struck the opening tee shot for Europe within the workforce competitors in opposition to the US as a part of an alternate-shot pairing with Charley Hull. Allisen Corpuz adopted for the U.S., paired with top-ranked Nelly Korda.
Europe is searching for to seize the Solheim Cup for a report fourth straight time.
“The Solheim is the LPGA’s time to shine,” GolfWeek’s Beth Ann Nichols wrote on X. “The crown jewel of the tour. Full catastrophe. One of many worst I’ve seen in 20 years overlaying the tour.”
Gamers often describe the opening tee shot on the Solheim Cup as extra nerve-wracking than something in girls’s golf, fueled partly by followers who fill grandstands hours prematurely to cheer the house workforce.
The few hundred followers who made it in time for Friday morning’s opening remained quiet for the European tee pictures and cheered all through because the People hit theirs, a departure from golf etiquette that gamers have come to embrace at workforce competitions.
— With AP
