Following Anthony Kim’s inspirational victory at LIV Golf Adelaide, there has been plenty of debate concerning the greatest comebacks in the game’s history.

Anthony Kim‘s win is certainly up there. Kim was relegated from LIV Golf last season. He earned his place and managed to overturn a five-shot deficit to the league’s two biggest stars at their flagship event.

It also cannot be forgotten that the 40-year-old spent well over a decade not playing the game before signing with LIV in 2024.

Of course, Ben Hogan won seven of his nine majors in the years after nearly dying in a car crash in 1949. And few will forget where they were when Tiger Woods won The Masters in 2019 after years of surgeries.

But in all the discussions over the game’s great comebacks, I have not seen one mention of another remarkable moment from the same year in which Woods won his 15th major title.

The 2019 Solheim Cup saw one of the game’s most underrated comebacks

As someone who has watched every Solheim Cup since Europe’s dramatic win in 2011, I would happily argue that the 2019 event at Gleneagles was better than any Ryder Cup this century with the possible exception of Medinah.

The two teams went into the last session tied at 8-8. So it was fitting that the fate of the trophy came down to the final putt in the final match on the golf course.

Stood over that putt was Suzann Pettersen. The Norwegian had to hole from seven feet or Juli Inkster’s side would be retaining the cup.

Ultimately, there was probably no one European captain Catriona Matthew would have rather had in that spot at that moment. There are not many competitors like Pettersen, as we will get onto later.

While most of us would struggle to even make contact with the ball, Pettersen showed why she is a two-time major champion, rolling the ball in with apparent ease.

Her reaction told a different story, however, with Pettersen clenching both her fists and screaming towards the Scottish sky as everyone and anyone associated with Team Europe swarmed onto the green.

It was, as it turned out, the perfect way for Pettersen to bring the curtain down on her playing career. She announced her retirement that evening.

Pettersen had barely played over the previous two years. She had withdrawn from the 2017 Solheim Cup due to a back injury. It was announced shortly after that she would be taking a break from the game after falling pregnant.

As reported by BBC Sport, it was far from a straightforward time for Pettersen.

In fact, she had only made two competitive starts after November 2017 before being handed a pick by Matthew for Gleneagles.

She missed the cut on both occasions.

Nevertheless, Matthew decided to put her faith in the world number 644 for the Solheim Cup. No other player outside the top 100 was involved.

Funnily enough, the second-lowest ranked player on the two teams – Anne van Dam – was paired with Pettersen in two of the opening four sessions. They won on Friday before losing on Saturday morning.

Just four European players contributed more points than Pettersen.

It is hard to imagine that she would have changed a thing about the final act of her professional career.

Pettersen not only spent most of the previous two years away from the game before going on to hole one of the most significant putts there could possibly be, but she also had to exorcise a demon from her previous Solheim Cup appearance.

Suzann Pettersen needed redemption at Gleneagles after her previous Solheim Cup appearance

In Germany in 2015, Europe were set to take a commanding lead into the singles.

There was controversy on the penultimate hole in the match between Pettersen and Charley Hull, and Brittany Lincicome and Alison Lee.

Lee picked up her ball when she only had a short putt left, seemingly believing that it had been conceded by the Europeans. However, Pettersen was adamant that nothing was given.

The Americans therefore lost the hole, and went on to lose the match, handing Europe a 10-6 lead.

Pettersen’s actions were called out by many. But it turned out to be exactly what the Americans needed. Inkster began her team talk on the 18th fairway almost as soon as the match concluded. And they went on to produce a comeback every bit as good as Medinah.

Even as a European fan, I could not help but cheer for the American team that day as they used the controversy to fuel them. Whether Pettersen was right or not, it was not at all surprising when she expressed regret so soon after the event had concluded.

It would have been awful had Pettersen’s Solheim Cup career ended in that manner.

What happened in 2019 was redemption for one of Europe’s greatest players.

Nothing compares with what Hogan did 70 years earlier, but at a time when everyone is discussing some of the greatest comebacks in the game’s history, there is no question that Pettersen’s swan song more than deserves a mention.