With just 50 days to go before the 19th edition of the Solheim Cup begins at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., and less than a month of qualifying, the battle is on. Both the U.S. and European Solheim Cup teams are starting to reach fever pitch as time runs out.
Three players have already mathematically booked their spots on the U.S. team. Nellie Korda’s sixth win at the Mizuho Americas Open cemented her No. 1 spot in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings for the 2024 US team. This will be the 25-year-old’s fourth time representing the red, white and blue, having competed for the United States at the 2019, 2021 and 2023 Solheim Cups.
The 14-time LPGA Tour winner has a 7-4-1 record, totaling 7.5 points in her three previous Solheim Cup appearances.
Following in the footsteps of Rolex No. 2 Lilia Wu Korda, she secured her spot on the U.S. team after winning the Major LPGA Classic. Simply give She then finished in a tie for second at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Sahali Country Club the following week.
Vu has five LPGA Tour wins since qualifying began at the 2023 Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, winning the Honda LPGA Thailand, The Chevron Championship, the AIG Women’s Open and the 2023 Annika at Pelican at Gainbridge. Career title at Blythefield Country Club in Belmont, Mich.
This is his second consecutive Solheim Cup appearance for the Epson Tour graduate, having made his debut at the event last year at Finca Cortezín in Andalusia, Spain. She defeated Sweden’s Madeleine Sackstrom in Sunday’s singles, earning a point for the Americans in her first match.
A tie for 10th place at The Amundi Evian Championship earned Allie Ewing her spot on the 2024 US Solheim Cup team, and the Mississippi native now represents the Americans for her fourth consecutive season at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. She has an impressive 11-10 finish since the start of qualifying, five of which have come in her last five starts on the LPGA Tour and three of which have come in the 2024 major championship.
The three-time LPGA Tour winner competed for the US Solheim Cup team in 2019, 2021 and 2023, posting a 3-8-1 record and 3.5 points in her 12 career totals.
Allisen Corpuz, Megan Khang, Lauren Coughlin and Andrea Lee currently round out the top seven automatic qualifying spots in the US Solheim Cup point standings. Corpus and Lee were freshmen on the 2023 US team in Spain, while Kang, the 2023 CPKC Women’s Open winner, is vying for a spot on her fourth US Solheim Cup team.
Coughlin, on the other hand, is trying to qualify for her first Solheim Cup, a dream come true for the 31-year-old LPGA Tour player. Currently sitting sixth in the points standings, the Virginia native has posted six top-10 finishes since last year’s Tournament of Champions Hilton Grand Vacations, four of which have come this season, two of which were at major championships.
He earned his first top 10 of the 2024 seasons with a T8 showing in the Ford Championship presented by KCC. He then finished third at The Chevron Championship, the club at Carlton Woods. .
In June, he finished ninth at the Shoprite LPGA Classic presented by Acer, and earlier this month, he won his first major title at The Amundi Evian Championship, eventually finishing fourth in Evian-les-Bains, France.
The Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking will give two spots to the two highest-ranked Americans currently in Rose Zhang (No. 9) and Alison Lee (No. 24). After the qualifying period ends following the AIG Women’s Open, three players will be selected by US captain Stacey Lewis.
On the European side, LPGA Tour winners Charlie Hull and Lynn Grant currently lead the European Solheim Cup points standings. Hull has three top-three finishes on the Ladies European Tour this season, while Grant captured her second career Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed title in spectacular fashion last month in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Six athletes in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking will automatically qualify for the European team. As of Monday, July 22, those six players are currently Celine Boutier (No. 7), Maja Stark (No. 23), Leona Maguire (No. 29), Carlotta Siganda (No. 31), and Madeleine Sackstrom (No. 34). and Georgia Hall (No. 39).
European captain Suzanne Pietersen will captain four players to round out her team, and like the Americans, the Europeans will finalize their squad after the AIG Women’s Open at the Old Course at St Andrews.
The 19th edition of the Solheim Cup will be held on American soil at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., the nation’s capital. For more information, please visit https://www.solheimcupusa.com.
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