⛳ The Most Controversial Moment in Solheim Cup History | 2015 Solheim Cup Recap
Relive the drama, tears, and ultimate comeback from the 2015 Solheim Cup at St. Leon-Rot. In this deep dive from The Golfing Gazette, we look back at the unforgettable 17th-hole controversy between Suzann Pettersen and Charley Hull, and Team USA’s historic 4-point final-day comeback.
From fierce competition and heated exchanges to sportsmanship and a stunning American victory, this tournament completely shook the golfing world.
In This Video:
0:00 – The Foundations of Golf and Sportsmanship
1:05 – Team Europe’s Dominant Lead at the 2015 Solheim Cup
2:10 – The 17th Hole Incident: Pettersen, Hull, and Lee
3:14 – Fallout, Huddles, and Reactions from Captains Inkster and Davies
5:17 – Team USA’s Epic Sunday Singles Comeback and Victory
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What are your thoughts on the controversial 17th-hole incident? Let us know in the comments below!
Great video
USA Solheim cup team Loch Lomond showed an example of unsportsmanlike behaviour 😮
If you have actually played a matchplay game at a level above just mates or bets….
Then you better know the rules, because the matchplayrules allows you to punish your'e opponent for not knowing the rules..!!!!!
Its not unsportmanship it's writen in to the rulebooks of the game of golf!!!!
Strokeplay have certain rulings that differs from Matchplay for a reason, if one play as if it was strokeplay, you make brake the rules, and gets penelized for it.
Nothing stranger than if you pick up a ball without first marking it in strokeplay instead of putting it, you broke the rules and recive a penalty,
and has to correct it by holing out to finish the hole. With the recived penalty.
There have been in rulebook as long as the gamd is old.
So please stop talking about sportmanship when some one disrespect the rules in matchplay just because they dont understand the
finesse of matchplay.
And by the way Charlie walked to the next hole because she had Suzanne back with the Americans,
Who clearly dont understand the rules… all they had to do was to get ball in the hole.
Instead they pick up the in violation with rules and ends up blaiming Europeans to be unfair..!!
This falls hard on the players and vice captain's but especially on the captain.
Come on.. learn the frecking rules!!
Revenge for what Dottie did to Annika – Maybe – but since when is enforcing the rules considered bad sportsmanship? What goes around, comes around!
WHY THIS IS PRESENTED NOW???
Don't you have the rights to show what you're talking about
@3:13 ❤Dame😎Laura xx
@ 6:00 the very beautiful Michelle Wie
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1. Do the rules of golf say that a player is permitted to give themselves their own putt? Yes or no?
2. Do the rules of golf say that turning one's back to the green or moving away from the green is interpreted as giving your opponent their putt? Yes or no?
If the answer to these two questions are both "no", then please explain what is the rules controversy?
At the end it‘s quite easy…There are no alternative facts and there are no alternative rules! Especially the USA should have learned this lesson meanwhile! The better golf is played in Europe…that‘s a fact, which is easy to understand for everybody! Americans further questions to be explained?😉
The first incident talks about a Solheim Cup match, and the USA's losing the 17th hole because the putt wasn't actually conceded before their player picked up her ball on the green. That's the rule for sure, but they go on to talk about the spirit of the game being more important than the rules, and how the European player could have reversed the decision by withdrawing her complaint. If this is so, and the spirit of the game is more important, then why didn't Roberto De Vicenzo, who definitely posted a score of 65 to tie the tournament and go to a play-off for the 1968 Masters title, never get his chance of a play-off? Here's why. His playing partner, Tommy Aaron, accidentally marked a score of 4 instead of 3 for De Vecenzo on the 17th hole. De Vecenzo signed the card without checking it, giving him a score of 66 instead of 65 for the final round. A simple mistake of ONE stroke on his card, and he signed it without checking (just like the girl on the 17th green didn't check if her putt was conceded), and he loses his chance to win the Masters. Everyone knew De Vecenzo had tied fair and square on actual strokes, but on the score card there was that mistake of one stroke, a mistake that meant he actually signed for a HIGHER score that he'd shot. No player would ever do that intentionally, but what did the ''spirit of the game'' officials do? NOTHING!!!. Why?….because the rules are the rules, whatever score is signed for by the player is official, and therefore MUST be obeyed. Common sense, and the spirit of the game that these tournament officials always like to preach about in golf, were both ignored totally. It was in their power to practise what they preach, and give him the chance that he'd earned, but they stuck stictly to the rules. These officials always want it one way when it suits them, and the other way when it doesn't. Golf is a great sport that is unfortunately run by a bunch of spineless, ''jolly good show old chap'' arseholes who dither about with their cucumber sandwiches and gin tonics, acting like gods and thinking their own shit doesn't stink.