The golfer has yet to have a conversation with the selection committee about whether she will lead the team for a third year but she’d love to do it again, though if she isn’t chosen, she feels she has set things up for the future.

She told Today’s Golfer magazine: “If I was asked, I’d have a hard time saying no, just because it’s the most enjoyable thing I’ve gotten to do in this game.

“I mean, I enjoy playing golf, but this was just so much fun, getting to be around this team, trying to move the Solheim Cup forward.

“But I also think that with the assistants (Morgan Pressel, Angela Stanford, Paula Creamer and Brittany Linicome) I brought on board, they are going to be your next couple of captains moving forward.

“And that was purposeful, to try to set up this blueprint for success.”

As well as hosting team dinners and arranging day trips for the squad to bring them together, Stacy also sought inspiration from other sports in how best to captain the US golfers.

She said: “I read articles about our women’s soccer team and what they have gone through with the changing of the guard and what Emma Hayes has done to change things there.

“And that’s really what we needed. We need a culture shift kind of similar to that.”