Where All 24 Solheim Cup Players Sit In The World Rankings
Team USA enter the 2024 Solheim Cup as favorites thanks to home advantage and higher world rankings
The 19th Solheim Cup is upon us at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, where Stacy Lewis' Team USA will look to beat Suzann Pettersen's Europeans for the first time since 2017.
Lewis' side enter as the favorites to win back the famous Solheim Cup trophy this week, in part to home advantage as well as an advantage when it comes to the world rankings.
While Pettersen's highest-ranked player is World No.10 Celine Boutier, Lewis has three world-top-10 players at her disposal in No.1 Nelly Korda, No.2 Lilia Vu and No.9 Rose Zhang. Major winners Allisen Corpuz, Jennifer Kupcho and Lexi Thompson, likely playing in her final Solheim Cup, add more world class talent to the side.
USA has 11 of its 12 players inside the world's top 50, while Europe has nine of its 12.
The total US ranking adds up to 310 with Europe's total equalling 504.
Odds and world rankings ultimately make no difference to the final result, though, and USA goes into most Solheim Cups as favorites and with a heavy world ranking advantage - similar to the men's Ryder Cup.
Europe might be the underdogs but World No.10 Celine Boutier and No.12 Charley Hull headline a very strong European side that also includes Sweden's Maja Stark, Linn Grant, Madelene Sagstrom and player/vice-captain Anna Nordqvist.
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There's also Solheim Cup stalwarts Leona Maguire and Carlota Ciganda as well as Major winner Georgia Hall and Olympic silver medallist Esther Henseleit.
Ahead of the highly anticipated showdown, we look at the world rankings for all 24 Solheim Cup players...
Solheim Cup Team USA Players rankings
World Ranking | Player |
---|---|
1 | Nelly Korda |
2 | Lilia Vu |
9 | Rose Zhang |
14 | Lauren Coughlin |
18 | Ally Ewing |
21 | Megan Khang |
26 | Alison Lee |
28 | Allisen Corpuz |
39 | Lexi Thompson |
44 | Andrea Lee |
50 | Jennifer Kupcho |
58 | Sarah Schmelzel |
Solheim Cup Team Europe Players rankings
World Ranking | Player |
---|---|
10 | Celine Boutier |
12 | Charley Hull |
25 | Linn Grant |
27 | Maja Stark |
30 | Esther Henseleit |
35 | Leona Maguire |
36 | Carlota Ciganda |
43 | Madelene Sagstrom |
48 | Georgia Hall |
63 | Albane Valenzuela |
72 | Anna Nordqvist |
103 | Emily Pedersen |
The Solheim Cup gets underway on Friday September 14. The event features 28 matches, with 16 doubles games over the first two days before 12 singles showdowns on Sunday.
Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!
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