TOLEDO, Ohio – “No.”
Mel Reid was emphatic in her reply when European Solheim Cup captain Catriona Matthew called her in 2019 and asked her to be an assistant – after not picking her as a player.
“I was pissed. I wanted to be on the team.” Mel Reid was emphatic and angry.
But that was pride speaking and no sooner had she hung up the phone with Matthew, Reid called back to accept the position.
“I rang her back, quite literally, probably 30 seconds later and I was like, ‘I am really sorry. Actually, I will do it,’” Reid recalled on Thursday at Inverness Golf Club.