Player rankings at the Solheim Cup: Charley Hull leads the European comeback, Nelly Korda shines for the USA, and where was Leona Maguire?
As we distribute our player ratings for the competition, Lilia Vu made the game-winning putt to guarantee that Team USA survived a late-day comeback by Team Europe and won the Solheim Cup for the first time since 2017. Who performed well this week and who didn’t?
After Team USA held off a Team Europe final-day fightback to regain the Solheim Cup, we look at which players starred and who struggled through the week; as well as those who were surprisingly overlooked…
Charley Hull’s score is as high as it is purely because of her sensational 6&4 demolition of world No 1 Nelly Korda in the opening Sunday singles match.
Hull was on fire with her putter and gave Korda no room for error, setting up the miracle that nearly was for Team Europe.
The win was Hull’s largest victory in the Solheim Cup, her next best coming over 10 years ago in 2013.
She did suffer losses in the Friday foursomes and fourballs but came up against the unbeaten partnership of Korda and Allisen Corpuz while helping rookie Esther Henseleit along the way.
Madelene Sagstrom’s first appearance at the 2024 Solheim Cup was in the Friday fourballs and she delivered, her and Anna Nordqvist’s 6&5 demolition of Alison Lee and Lexi Thompson picking up Europe’s only point of the afternoon session.
She could not add another point in her Saturday fourballs but was up against the pretty unplayable Alison Lee and Megan Khang. However she came out on top in the Sunday singles with a point that could have been crucial if Europe had been able to turn a few halves into full points.
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