Scotland Vs Sweden For Solheim Cup Hosting

02 Sep 2015 | tshego

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The Ladies European Tour (LET) has narrowed the shortlist of potential hosts for the 2019 edition of golf’s Solheim Cup, following record interest earlier this year.

After ten countries came forward for consideration in March, it has now been confirmed that Scotland and Sweden will go head to head for the right to host the biennial matchplay team competition.

Initial applications were received from Denmark, England, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Wales to host the contest between Europe and the United States

Scotland and Sweden will now be scrutinised by the LET management team which will review and analyse each bid in turn. This process will include official site inspections of the two bidding parties including the venues and associated facilities before early October.

The final recommendation will be made by the LET Evaluation Committee to the LET Board on 29th October, which will make the final decision. The official announcement of the winning bid will be made shortly afterwards.

Scotland’s bid, which is backed by the Scottish Government and is led by the EventScotland team at VisitScotland, proposes holding the event at Gleneagles, site of the 2014 men’s Ryder Cup and a regular host of men’s and ladies tour events.

Sweden’s bid includes Bro Hof Slott Golf Club, located around 50km north west of Stockholm which has hosted the Nordea Masters on the European Tour and will do again in 2016.

Mark Casey, director of the Solheim Cup, said: “We are delighted to have received two bids from such high quality venues. We also want to thank the 10 countries who expressed an initial interest in hosting the event in March and who attended the bidding seminar at the Buckinghamshire Club earlier this year, many of whom have indicated their interest in submitting a bid for the 2023 event. This shows the long term interest in the Solheim Cup and ladies professional golf in Europe.”

The 2015 Solheim Cup is being staged at Golf Club St Leon-Rot in Germany from 18th to 20th September. The 2017 tournament will be hosted at the Des Moines Golf and Country Club in the US state of Iowa.