Walker, who was Europe’s captain within the first 4 editions of the biennial contest, is cautious that continued unsporting partisan behaviour will spoil each the Solheim and Ryder Cup.
And whereas the Solheim Cup doesn’t seem to have as giant a difficulty, Walker mentioned she felt “intimidated” as a spectator way back to on the 2009 contest in Chicago and “doesn’t like” the way in which it’s going.
It’s no secret that the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in 2021 noticed the European gamers and their households obtain some horrendous abuse from a minority of US followers on the course on the banks of Lake Michigan.
No away facet has received the Ryder Cup since Europe’s victory at Medinah in 2012 and whereas Padraig Harrington accepted that a few of that’s all the way down to residence captains having the ability to dictate course set-up, he additionally acknowledged the half followers play.
Talking earlier than final 12 months’s contest in Italy, the Irishman, who led Europe in 2021, forecast there could be hassle, telling the Every day Telegraph: “I want I might say it’s one-way visitors, but it surely is not and we should always realise that and have a look at our personal yard as properly.
“It is not simply the gamers both. The identical as in America, the wives and households are being singled out by hecklers as properly, with some fairly terrible stuff happening.”
Walker agreed, saying: “The previous two Ryder Cups have been bordering on the crowds not behaving very properly as a result of they’ve been a lot behind their workforce.
“Rome was the worst it has been in Europe.
“I do not prefer it, you wish to win simply by taking part in the higher golf.”
It’s a sentiment echoed by John Solheim, the son of Karsten and Louise Solheim who’ve sponsored the match for the reason that inaugural occasion in 1990 and who the trophy is called after.
“It is extraordinarily essential to the People to win it again, but it surely does not actually matter to me who wins,” he informed BBC Sport.
“I simply need a shut match.”
