The Solheim Cup is fast approaching, with just a handful of months left for the best players from Europe and the United States to stake their claim to a spot on the team. Here are our picks for the most likely players to be teeing it up the second week of September
No. 1 – Charley Hull – Obviously, Charley Hull is the No. 3 ranked player in the world and the top ranked European. She’s also playing some of the best golf of her career over the last six months. She’s also excellent in the Solheim Cup with a 15-9-3 record. Easy pick.
No. 2 – Lottie Woad – Hull’s fellow Englishwoman is seemingly an absolute lock to make her Solheim Cup debut. Woad is the second highest ranked European in the world and certainly represents the future of this team. At just 22-years-old and with less than a year of professional golf under her belt, Woad already has one win on the LPGA Tour and the LET. Even captain Anna Nordqvist has already spoken positively about her chances to make the team. She’s in almost certainly.
No. 3 – Carlota Ciganda – I think Ciganda is safe to make this team. This will likely be a bit less experienced European team, and so Ciganda’s 27 career matches played should come in handy. Ciganda has also had some bright moments recently, including a win at Meijer last year and some strong LET results in Aramco events.
No. 4 – Celine Boutier – Boutier is all over the map as far as the Solheim Cup goes, with a 7-6-1 record including a 4-0-0 showing and a 0-3-0 performance. In 2024, she went 2-2, which was one of the stronger performances on the team. While Boutier hasn’t had the strongest last few months, she is still ranked in the top 30 in the Rolex Rankings and is certainly close to a lock to be on the team.
No. 5 – Linn Grant – Grant had a dreadful 0-4-0 performance in 2024, easily the weakest player on either squad, but when a player is as talented as Grant is, you give her another chance, no questions asked. Grant has shown that skill recently with six top-20 finishes since the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open, and that includes a win and a top-three finish. Grant is ranked No. 24 in the world and should be moving up steadily.
No. 6 – Maja Stark – Stark is a steady piece for this European team, which is why she places right here in the middle. Thanks to her major championship win last season, she is the third highest ranked European in the world. The issue is that Stark hasn’t played particularly well since that win with six missed cuts and only one top-10 finish. Stark does play solid golf in this event, with a 3-3-2 record and she seems to be one of the more versatile players when it comes to pairings.
No. 7 – Esther Henseleit – While Henseleit doesn’t necessarily get strong results, she is consistent and plays solid golf almost every time she tees it up. Henseleit is versatile and does a bit of everything well. Even her traditional weakness of putting has improved pretty drastically. She played in just three matches in 2024, going 1-1-1, but I would expect her to have a bigger role this time around.
No. 8 – Leona Maguire – The last pick I would feel confident in is Leona Maguire. Maguire’s career is certainly trending downward, with no top-15 finishes since the Evian Championship, causing her to fall outside of the top 100 in the world rankings. Maguire almost certainly will need a captain’s selection, but it is so hard to ignore her 4-0-1 record in 2021. While last time out was a mess for Maguire, with her not playing much for some reason, she still performed solidly with a 1-1 record. I don’t anticipate her riding the bench again.
No. 9 – Madelene Sagström – It is a bit up in the air from here, with a lot of potential young stars to fill out the roster, but I think Sagström gets the final veteran spot. Sagström has been quietly really solid over the last year, improving a bit on some of her consistency issues. Like many of these players, her results in Solheim Cups have been inconsistent, but she was one of the few players from 2024 to have a winning record for Europe at 2-1.
No. 10 – Mimi Rhodes – If you don’t know much about LPGA Tour rookie Mimi Rhodes yet, start paying attention. Rhodes feels like a strong candidate to win rookie of the year. Over her last 11 worldwide starts, Rhodes has 10 top-15 finishes against some really good field qualities. At this time last season, Rhodes was ranked outside the top 500 in the Rolex Rankings, she is now 59 and rising faster than anyone in the world.
No. 11 – Chiara Tamburlini – Switzerland’s Chiara Tamburlini had a really strong 2024, with three wins, including two late in the season. If she broke out a bit earlier, she might’ve stole a spot on the last squad. Despite no wins in 2025, I do think she gets into the mix here and makes her debut over some of the veteran names like Nanna Koerstz Madsen and the currently injured Emily Pedersen.
No. 12 – Julia Lopez Ramirez – Lopez Ramirez is someone I came into the season really high on, and she is proving herself early. In her first two LPGA Tour starts of the year, she has finished top 25 in both of them, including a top-10 finish at the HSBC Women’s World Championship last week. She’s now ranked No. 81 and has moved up steadily the last couple weeks. Consistency is a question but the talent is obvious.
HM: Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Ingrid Lindblad, Emily Kristine Pedersen – Koerstz Madsen would probably be a safer pick than the younger players, but I do think this is a good chance to get some of these young, talented stars in the lineup while the experience of Hull and Ciganda can still carry the team. Ingrid Lindblad felt like she had a good chance at making this team, but she has been open about her struggles with confidence, especially off the tee, as of late. Pedersen is always an option to make the team, and if she was at full health, she’d probably take one of those last two spots, but as of now, it is hard to imagine her getting in the mix.
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