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‘It’s painfully slow out there’: Slow play creeps its way into Solheim Cup

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GLENEAGLES, Scotland – When the final fourball match ended Friday evening at the Solheim Cup, it was just past 7 p.m. local time … about 5 hours, 40 minutes after it had begun, and more than a half hour after the TV window was scheduled to conclude.

“Yes, it’s painfully slow out there,” said U.S. captain Juli Inkster.

No slow-play penalties were given out on Day 1 at Gleneagles, though American Lizette Salas did receive one bad time in her and Danielle Kang’s fourball match against Suzann Pettersen and Anne Van Dam. However, the slow crawl of matches, especially in the afternoon session, sparked outrage on social media.