LPGA to launch inquiry into Solheim Cup fan transport mess
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Gainesville, United States: An inquiry will be made into why thousands of Solheim Cup fans were left waiting for hours on Friday in shuttle bus lines,...
Gainesville, United States: An inquiry will be made into why thousands of Solheim Cup fans were left waiting for hours on Friday in shuttle bus lines, LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan said on Saturday.
Too few buses and more fans than expected left parking lots crowded and some fans heading home Friday, but school buses were among the vehicles brought in to avoid a repeat of the opening-day disaster.
Samaan called it "an LPGA issue" and said it was a miscalculation rather than being cheap about spending.
"It wasn't trying to cut costs. It was trying to do what was going to work for the tournament," Samaan said. "I don't want to get into exactly who, the details of responsibility. At the end of the day, I'm the leader of the organization and I have to own it."
The transport blunder gave one of women's golf's premier events a black eye before it even began.
