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The United States won the Solheim Cup for the third successive time after completing a 16-12 victory over Europe following Sunday's singles matches at Rich Harvest Farms.
The Solheim Cup is played every two years, and pits teams of lady professionals from the LPGA and Ladies European Tours, representing the US and Europe respectively. The competition is contested at match play, like the Ryder Cup.
It is named in honour of Karsten Solheim, founder of the Karsten Manufacturing Corporation, parent company for PING golf equipment. In 1990 the Solheim family in conjunction with the US and European ladies golf tours developed the concept which became The Solheim Cup.
The event quickly established itself as the premier match play competition in women's professional golf.
Today, just like The Ryder Cup for men, being picked for your respective Solheim Cup team is the aspiration for every female professional golfer.
Victory for the US Team, in this the 11th playing of the event, takes the series score to 8 - 3 in their favour as Europe still haven't managed to record a victory on US soil. Just like their Ryder Cup counterparts who didn't manage to record a victory stateside until 1987, the Europeans are desperate to open their account.
Missing their talisman from previous campaigns, the recently retired Annika Sorenstam, the current crop of European hopefuls went in to the event as heavy underdogs and the matches went really according to form.
One player in particular will have made many new friends in the last week, the vastly talented Michelle Wie.
Wie emerged from the event as the highest point's scorer for either team; first of all completely justifying Captain Beth Daniel's faith in her as a captain's pick selection, and secondly re-affirming to the golfing world that she was not just a PR stunt.
Still a teenager, Wie has been in the public eye since she was 12, when as a young girl from Hawaii she qualified to play in an LPGA Tour event. Since that day she has been dubbed as the new 'Tiger of the ladies game', 'the one to take on and beat the men', amongst other things.
With a powerful team around her she accepted, perhaps unwisely, to play in several men's events on the PGA Tour. Looking back now I think she would have regretted many of those decisions at a time when she should have been getting to know how to develop her God-given talents against her female counterparts before inviting the eyes of the world to watch and criticise her failure against the cream of the men's game.
Injuries, loss of confidence and a dramatic loss of form were the result in this classic case of too much, too soon, Michelle was still only 17!
After nearly two years in the wilderness I am pleased to report that she has turned her fortunes around, when it could possibly have been easier to slip away unnoticed.
A solid season on the LPGA Tour resulted in her just missing out on automatic selection, but her form going in to the Solheim Cup made her a dead cert for a pick. She has more than justified her selection by her performances on the course, but I think this week she has not only put herself back in the public eye, she has done it in all the right ways, by playing the kind of golf that those in the know always knew she was capable of.
While the celebrations of the US Team continue, for Michelle Wie the victory represents much more than a trophy; it could be the completion of a steep learning curve, and signify the start of her second career as a champion, an icon and a sporting superstar for all the right reasons.
At still just 19 years of age, time is more than on her side.
