GAINESVILLE, Va. – If it wasn’t a celebration earlier than, with the DJ and ear-aching music blaring all through Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership, it was when Alison Lee holed out in Saturday afternoon’s fourballs.
Lee spun in a wedge from 86 yards on the par-4 second for eagle. In response, Lee’s caddie, Taylor “Shota” Takada, and accomplice Megan Khang’s caddie, Jack Fulghum, took off their shirts, gave bro hugs and ran wild.
There was a backstory to the celebration, which Lee defined after the match:
“Proper after the primary gap, [Fulghum] form of checked out us and stated, ‘Come on, guys, I need to see one among you guys gap out. I need to see a very good shot.’ He stated that if one among us holes out we’ll get $500, and I stated, I don’t need your cash. I don’t want $500. How about you are taking your shirt off, and he’s like, yeah, I’ll do it, and he appeared over at my caddie, Shota, and he’s like, you’re going to do it, and so they agreed, and it’s loopy it occurred 5 minutes later.”
“Jack was the primary individual to take his shirt off,” Lee continued. “He was so fast with it and I noticed it from the nook of my eye. I checked out my caddie, Shota, I used to be like, why aren’t you taking your shirt off? Take it off. He lastly took it off. It was a very cool second.”
Khang did all she may to not douse her teammate with the bottle of water in her hand. U.S. captain Stacy Lewis, surrounded by vice captains and gamers on the primary tee, was in a position to see the extraordinary celebration on a large monitor.
She caught up with Lee and Khang later within the spherical.
“Yeah, they thought they had been in bother after I got here up on 7,” Lewis stated, “and I simply instructed them that they had been going viral. That was all I used to be coming to inform them.”
The shot gained the outlet for the U.S. facet to place them 1 up over Europe’s Anna Nordqvist and Madelene Sagstrom. They went on to prevail, 4 and three.
Requested concerning the shirtless antics, European captain Suzann Pettersen joked, “I’d simply say, intercourse sells. Go for it.”