Issues acquired just a little heated within the post-round presser Friday on the Solheim Cup.
Following a troublesome loss to Leona Maguire and Georgia Corridor, a reporter requested Lexi Thompson what went incorrect along with her third shot on the 18th inexperienced.
“I don’t must touch upon that,” Thompson asserted.
“Excuse me?” the reported responded.
“I don’t must touch upon the chip,” Thompson stated. “It was a nasty lie, and I didn’t hit a great chip, however it was just about inconceivable.”
The chip in query was a whole shank at a vital second. Thompson and Lilia Vu have been tied with Maguire and Corridor on the 18th inexperienced.
Moments earlier than, Maguire had chipped in for a birdie-four, whereas Thompson confronted her third, having nearly made the par-5 in two photographs. That’s when she shanked it, which proved to be the decisive shot, as Maguire’s chip-in gave Europe its first full level of the Solheim Cup.
Confounding reply from Lexi and subsequent response from the US facet. It was one of many pivotal moments of all the day and in some way that is off limits? pic.twitter.com/9std3LFlmN
— Tron Carter (@TronCarterNLU) September 23, 2023
Certain, the load of the world was on Thompson’s shoulders, however this juncture proved to be the second of the day on the Solheim Cup.
Reporters have a job to do, too, and there may be zero downside with any credentialed journalist asking a participant—or captain—about an occasion like this.
Then, U.S. Captain Stacy Lewis chimed in after Thompson completed talking, saying underneath her breath that it was “a horrible query.”
Once more, media members have a job to do: inform the story of what transpired.
Sadly for Thompson and the U.S. crew, an unlucky circumstance occurred on the 18th inexperienced. However it’s golf. Mishits like that occur. But, Thompson and Lewis may have had a greater reply in regards to the incident, which, to Thompson’s credit score, her delayed response in regards to the lie being unhealthy within the gnarly Bermuda tough proved adequate.
Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By way of. You may comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Be sure you take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.
