This yr, the Presidents Cup and Solheim Cup are simply weeks aside. They normally fall on the similar time since they happen in reverse years of the Ryder Cup.
Crew USA captain Stacy Lewis made an unimaginable assertion a couple of potential approach to combine the LPGA and PGA Tour in a workforce occasion.
“To be sincere, I’d like to see the Presidents Cup turn into combined,” Lewis mentioned. “It’s the proper approach to mix the 2 Excursions. The worldwide workforce will get higher in a short time. It will be wonderful to have the 2 Excursions collectively that method.”
The People have dominated the Presidents Cup for years, holding a 12-1-1 general document over the Worldwide workforce.
So many followers discover this workforce occasion much less vital than the Ryder Cup. How can skilled golf make this workforce event extra fascinating?
Including girls to the combo would instantly make the Presidents Cup higher and extra related.
Lewis is aware of doing this may stiffen the competitors. Crew USA normally dominates towards the Worldwide Crew as a result of they use related lineups for the Ryder Cup.
The Worldwide Crew doesn’t have the identical privilege as a result of solely European golfers play. Whereas many proficient gamers are on the worldwide workforce, they don’t seem to be as sturdy as these on the European workforce.
Consider all of the extremely proficient girls allowed to play on the Worldwide workforce. Women that could possibly be on the workforce are Ayaka Furue, Haeran Ryu, Lydia Ko, Hannah Inexperienced, Ruoning Yin, Jin Younger Ko and Brooke Henderson, simply to call a couple of.
That group of ladies is kind of the lineup and it could make the People should work method more durable.
Not solely would it not give the Presidents Cup extra validity however it’ll increase the bar for qualifying. The ladies would take up have the spots, ideally, so it could be more durable to make this workforce, including extra significance to it.
Lastly it’ll develop each the boys’s and ladies’s recreation. Rising the sport is among the greatest issues in golf proper now. Whereas it beneficial properties recognition, proper now’s the time to make golf extra accessible throughout the board. Let’s make girls’s golf a precedence.
Including them to the Presidents Cup will do exactly that and it’ll give followers one thing to look ahead to.
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