Gleneagles will host the Solheim Cup in 2019. The PGA Centenary Course hosted the Ryder Cup in 2014 and now the women’s teams will face the same test.
Scotland has played host to the Solheim Cup twice before at Dalmahoy Country Club in 1992 and Loch Lomond in 2000. The 2017 event will take place at Des Moines in Iowa.
Europe surrendered the Solheim Cup last month as the USA completed a remarkable comeback to win 14½-13½ in controversial circumstances in Germany.
Gleneagles beat Bro Hof Slott in Sweden to earn the right to host the event and the Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is delighted to see the event coming to Scotland.
She said: “This is tremendous news, not only for golf tourism and events in Scotland but for Scotland as a whole. As a nation we take a huge amount of pride in welcoming major events to our country and in women’s golf they don’t come any bigger than the Solheim Cup.
“The outstanding success of 2014 still looms large in the memory and I am delighted that Gleneagles and Scotland will once again play host to a major international team golf event.
“It will help cement Scotland’s reputation as the home of golf and the perfect stage for major golf events and help inspire a new generation of children to take up the game invented in their home country.”
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