Solheim Cup players, captains explain the test provided by the hilly host, Finca Cortesin

“Yeah, I mean, the course is a challenge to get around, but I mean, now that we’ve been around it a few times, I actually think everyone thinks it’s not as bad once you kind of go out there and you kind of go with the flow. It’s great to see — I think you will actually see a lot of spectators walking around a lot more than what we anticipated, at least that’s what we have seen so far through the practice rounds. We’ll make it work. The players, they obviously get first line in those — some of those tight passes. There will be a couple of rides for the players. But I think overall, I think it’s going to actually work out quite fine.”

On the drivable par 4 1st hole

“Well, it’s an interesting first hole because it’s a reachable par-4. We’ve been talking about this. I don’t know if we’ve been trying to lay a strategy flat, because for some people it’s very approachable, for others it’s might be out of their reach to be comfortable to go for the hole in one or like go for the drivable par-4. So I think you’re going to see both. I have just told the players, let’s talk through this. Because, I mean, we had a drivable par-4 in 2017 in Des Moines which didn’t really turn into the European favor. So I just want the players, the team to kind of at least talk through what we’re thinking, at least have some kind of a strategy in mind when they step up on that first tee, and, yeah, I mean, the conditions are, I think it’s going to be part of however what the players decides to do as well.”