Shake up the Solheim Cup
Luster and interest is lacking for the biennial women's event. The Man Out Front has a plan that would not only revitalize the matches, but grow the interest.
On and on it goes. Just about every week the Forecaddie sees, hears and reads something about the Ryder Cup. The biennial contest between the United States and Europe is an almost constant generator of news, even when the next encounter is more than a year distant.
Then there is the female equivalent, the Solheim Cup.
Oh dear. If ever something in golf was in need of change it is the match between the women professionals from either side of the Atlantic. The relative lack of media attention — compared with Ryder Cup — is a stark indication of what can only be described as a depressing lack of interest. Sad to say, this is a golfing rendezvous in which the lack of star-power is all too clear, never mind that the women’s game in general has never attracted the column inches devoted to the men.
There are many factors — some valid; others less so — that lead to that inescapable conclusion. But when it comes to the Solheim Cup, at least some of the problems are self-inflicted.
