Ohio Golf Journal February 2020

building. Juli relied on all her assistants – Nancy Lopez, Wendy Ward and me – to engage with the players and to see who was playing well with whom and what holes suited one kind of shot over another. We offered our opinions about the lineup. And we handled a lot of the details so the players could focus on playing.” The Solheim Cup is a biennial competition between the best women golfers from the Ladies European Tour (LET) versus the 12 best from the LPGA Tour. In 2019 every member of the European Solheim Cup Team also competed on the LPGA on a regular basis. The Solheim Cup is named in honor of Karsten Solheim, the founder of Karsten Manufacturing Corporation, whichmakes PINGgolf equipment. In 1990, the Solheim family, in conjunction with the LPGA and the LET, developed the concept and became the title sponsor for the Solheim Cup.Today it has grown into the most prestigious international women’s professional golf team event. The 2021 Solheim Cup will be held at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, on Sept. 4-6. In 2019, The pressure will be on Hurst and the American Team to reclaim the Solheim Cup from Europe after they were defeated at Gleneagles. Advance Solheim Cup tickets are on sale at: www.solheimcupusa.com . For more information, visit www.solheimcup.com .

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