LONDON: The Scottish golf course Gleneagles will host the Solheim Cup in 2019, five years after welcoming the Ryder Cup, the Ladies European Tour announced on Thursday.
The PGA Centenary Course was the stage in 2014 when Europe's men players beat the United States for the sixth time in seven events and now the women's teams will face the same test.
Europe lost the Solheim Cup last month as the United States staged a remarkable comeback to win 14 1/2 - 13 1/2 in controversial circumstances in Germany.
Suzann Pettersen came in for intense criticism at Golf Club St Leon-Rot after denying she and team-mate Charley Hull had conceded a two-foot putt on the 17th hole of their fourball match after America's Alison Lee had picked up her ball.
Europe were awarded the hole and went on to win the match two up, but it was the indignant Americans who eventually claimed the trophy by recovering from 10-6 down in the singles.
Pettersen issued an apology in the aftermath of the American victory and tempers appear to have now cooled ahead of the event heading to Des Moines Golf and Country Club in 2017.
The competition to hold the 2019 edition was between Gleneagles in Perthshire and The Bro Hof Slott Golf Club in Sweden.
Scotland has played host to the Solheim Cup twice before -- at Dalmahoy Country Club in 1992 and Loch Lomond in 2000.
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