Nelly Korda leads a powerful U.S. Solheim Cup roster into the Netherlands as Angela Stanford's Americans look to defend their 2024 victory.
The 2026 U.S. Solheim Cup team arrives in the Netherlands with a familiar face at the top, plenty of proven match-play experience and two newcomers getting their first taste of one of golf's most intense events.
World No. 1 Nelly Korda headlines captain Angela Stanford's 12-player American roster for the Sept. 7-13 competition at Bernardus Golf. Korda will make her fifth straight Solheim Cup appearance after putting together another massive season that included victories at the Chevron Championship and U.S. Women's Open.
Those wins pushed Korda to four major championships and 19 career LPGA Tour victories. She's also 10-5-1 in 16 career Solheim Cup matches, giving Stanford one of the strongest anchors either side can send onto the course.
But this American team isn't built around one player.
Angel Yin, Jennifer Kupcho, Allisen Corpuz, Lauren Coughlin, Andrea Lee, Alison Lee, Megan Khang and Rose Zhang all return with previous Solheim Cup experience. Khang joins Korda in making a fifth appearance, while Kupcho will play for the Americans for the fourth consecutive edition.
Zhang could be particularly dangerous after going 4-0-0 during the United States' victory in 2024. Coughlin was nearly as impressive in her debut, finishing 3-0-1.
The new blood comes from Auston Kim and Lindy Duncan, who will each make their Solheim Cup debuts.
Kim earned her way onto the team following a stretch that included a runner-up finish at the 2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship and another second-place result at the 2026 HSBC Women's World Championship.
Duncan, meanwhile, brings more than a decade of professional experience and finished runner-up at the 2025 Chevron Championship.
Stanford will have considerable experience alongside her as well. Assistant captains Paula Creamer, Brittany Lang and Kristy McPherson combined to make 13 Solheim Cup appearances as players.
Creamer alone played in seven Solheim Cups and won 17 matches, ranking among the most accomplished American players in the event's history.
The mission now is straightforward.
The United States reclaimed the Cup with a 15.5-12.5 victory in 2024, ending Europe's three-event unbeaten run. Now Korda, Zhang and a deep American roster head overseas trying to prove that victory wasn't the end of a drought.
It was the beginning of another American run.
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