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By Iain Carter
BBC golf correspondent
There was so much to observe at a dramatic European Solheim Cup success that generated iconic golf memories that will last a lifetime.
As Suzann Pettersen and the sun shone throw a very long shadow on Gleneagles’ 18th green before holing the putt, the sport could not have asked for a much better climax.
Here was a women’s sporting event that had created crowds and people 90,000 crowds were rewarded with sporting drama that is spine-tingling.
This thrilling denouement sits alongside people we remember in Ryder Cups at Medinah (2012), Oak Hill (1995) and Kiawah Island (1991) as well as the Solheim success at Killeen Castle at 2011.
The parallels with that amazing success in Ireland are tough to ignore. Afterward, Europe needed to acquire the three singles matches just as Catriona Matthew’s staff had to in Scotland on Sunday.
When the dust settled on that victory we wondered what it would imply in Europe moving ahead. Would it be the catalyst?
Regrettably the response was shown to be a resounding’no’, despite having a record-breaking 18-10 win in the United States.
That the LET has contracted to an extent that its players fight to produce a living. So it’d be naive to believe that the triumph in Gleneagles will make substance difference to women’s golf clubs in Europe.
But here is a golden chance for the feminine sport to develop and increase. Anyone who witnessed the ebbs and flows along with Pettersen’s putt that preceded it will probably likely know about the sport’s capacity to enthral and amuse.
Here’s a little time to capitalise and make the heroines of the victory more recognisable figures within the sporting firmament of Europe. It is the least they deserve.
The greatest sporting fairytale was provided by pettersen. She threatens to return after becoming a mother for the very first time having played for the past two years.
The Norwegian heads back into the shadows but for dramatically holding her nerve on that 21, with all mythical status.
She is certainly a future Solheim skipper – even to the trophy defence in two decades’ time? Equally, Matthew could fancy another crack.
She was an superb leader, boldly although softly going about her company. It was a enormous call despite insisting it was never a gamble to select on Pettersen for a ninth Solheim Cup.
To parachute at a golfer that had little competition required serious guts – however it was an inspired move.
Her selection exemplifies a lack of strength in depth at the peak of the match that is European. This render Pettersen’s putt irrelevant and could have been the subject of the post mortems’d Marina Alex birdied the final.
Such are the fine margins. The US newcomer missed her putt, Pettersen pounced and Europe’s top women can spend nursing hangovers.
The kind of Georgia Hall along with Celine Boutier (another inspired wildcard) who both won four games from four supply additional cause for celebration – particularly for the English participant, who has fought for much of this season.
This was a week to its 23-year-old from Bournemouth, who reminded us of those world-class credentials that attracted her year’s Women’s British Open title.
Gleneagles may establish a career turning point that puts her firmly back on course.
Her compatriot Bronte Law is another who will power on with this triumph. Already a winner on the LPGA Tour, the participant from Stockport showed steel on her introduction to catch the win that place the big moment of Pettersen up.
These individual triumphs offer cause for optimism, however, the women’s game must address its own rate of play to get any chance of prosperous.
It would be easy for the rounds on Saturday afternoon to disappear from the memory, however they shouldn’t.
Yes states were so brutal, but there was no excuse.
The European Tour of the men states LET and the LPGA need to get ahead of this game although it is getting tough on the trainers that are sluggish, there are moves too on the PGA Tour.
Referees need to authorities pace of play penalties for those who take long because the spectacle is being ruined by them. And Gleneagles Sunday proved golfing – and women’s golf particularly – is watchable.
This creates opportunities build the game, to arrest decrease and take advantage of this movement for feminine sport.
But if the action is permitted to stay as it had been in the the Friday and Saturday fourball sessions as turgidly slow golf doesn’t have any prospect of capitalising.
That would be a travesty in the aftermath of a victory.

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