2013 Golf Chic (pdf version) - Ladies European Tour

About The Solheim Cup:The Solheim Cup combines the tradition and prestige of the gameof golf with passion for one’s country. This biennial, trans-atlanticteam match play competition features the best U.S. born playersfrom the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour andthe best European members from the Ladies European Tour (LET).The Solheim Cup is named in honor of Karsten Solheim, the founderof Karsten Manufacturing Corporation, which makes PING golfequipment. In 1990, the Solheim family, in conjunction with theLPGA and the LET, developed the concept and became the titlesponsor for The Solheim Cup, professional golf’s international matchplay competition for women. Held every two years, the event hasgrown into the most prestigious international women’s professionalgolf team event. The Solheim Cup is the most highly coveted trophyin women’s professional golf team competition; some of the mostmemorable moments in the sport have happened during one ofThe Solheim Cups, and berths on the U.S. and European teams arehighly sought after by players from both organisations.The 2013 Solheim Cup will take place Aug. 13-18 at Colorado GolfClub in Parker, Colo. The European Team enters the competitionholding the Cup and will need 14 points to retain it, with the U.S.Team needing 14 points to regain the coveted Waterford Crystalprize. The U.S. team holds an 8-4 lead in the matches, whichbegan in 1990.In addition to founding sponsor PING, Rolex is also a GlobalPartner of The Solheim Cup. For more information about TheSolheim Cup and updated standings for each team,log on to www.solheimcupeurope.comwww.ladieseuropeantour.comAbout Golf Club St Leon-Rot:The club, founded in 1996, has two 18 hole championship courseswhich have both already been venues for the Deutsche BankSAP Open, a professional tournament on the PGA European Tour.Tiger Woods won the tournament in 1999, 2001 and 2002. Thetwo courses, ‘St. Leon’ and ‘Rot’, have both received multipleaccolades from the specialist press. The Rot championship course,for example, won the sought after Golf Journal Travel Award ninetimes in a row up to 2010, as ‘Germany’s most popular golf course’.In 2011 and 2012 the award went to the St. Leon course.In 2000 Golf Magazin named Fairway 9 on the ‘Rot’ course one ofthe ‘Top 500 Holes in the World’. The club also has a 9 hole shortcourse and a 5 hole ‘bambini’ course. There are also spacious, highquality practice areas available in the form of a driving range, aninnovative video training centre, and various pitching, chippingand putting greens. In 2011 the large, innovative Allianz IndoorShort Game Center of Excellence was opened; this now allowsthe club’s key players to practise all year round. The club is alsoknown for its outstanding position in the field of German amateurgolf. For years, an exemplary, systematic youth developmentscheme has formed the basis for sporting success. Thus St.Leon-Rot produced the German men’s team champions for sevenyears in a row from 2004 to 2010. There was also one EuropeanChampionship win. The women’s team boasts five Germanchampionships and five European Champion titles. On top of allthis, the players Stephan Gross (2008) and Sophia Popov (2010)took home an Individual European Championship title. A key rolein St. Leon-Rot’s rise to become one of Germany’s best golf clubsis played by club president Dietmar Hopp, a co-founder of theWalldorf software corporation SAP.58