No. 4: World Team
If you had asked me about two months ago how I was feeling about the newly created World Team, I wouldn’t be so optimistic. None of them were performing to the best of their abilities and Charley Hull was dealing with injuries that put her status in question. Now though? This team looks like it is in good shape to make a real run.
Hall of Famer Lydia Ko is representing Oceania/Africa this week, coming from New Zealand. There isn’t a whole ton to be said about her career that most people don’t know. She leads the LPGA Tour in wins by an active player, has three Olympic medals and three major championships. After her historic 2024, 2025 hasn’t quite been as strong, but she is rounding into some solid form. Before a bit of an extended break, Ko finished top 15 in her last two starts on Tour and is ranked No. 4 in the Rolex Rankings.
Despite not having played much as of late, Charley Hull, representing Europe, almost unquestionably is coming into this event with the best form of anyone outside maybe Jeeno Thitikul. Hull finished runner up at the AIG Women’s Open, then won her next event in Cincinnati in a thriller. Her last appearance, at the Lotte Championship, still resulted in a top-15 finish. There could be some rust concerns, she’s played on the LPGA Tour three times since the beginning of August, but the No. 5 player in the world should have a lot of confidence heading into the week.
Brooke Henderson, representing the Americas, rounds out this power trio of superstars, but shockingly her place on the team wasn’t always a guarantee. That is because of a lengthy stretch of the worst play of her career. That all ended in her home country of Canada, where she won the national open. Now, the two-time major champions looks like an essential member of the team with five consecutive top-30 finishes.
Finally, rounding out the team is the player that maybe not all fans are familiar with, but Wei-Ling Hsu is a veteran player with a lot of experience. Hsu won her lone LPGA Tour event in Williamsburg, Virginia in 2021, but has had plenty of solid finishes since. In 2025 she had two top-10 finishes in majors, and had a nice top-20 finish just a few weeks ago in Arkansas. She isn’t the most consistent player, with eight missed cuts in 19 starts, but if her game is dialed in this week, that makes this team even more dangerous.
The final factor of course is the chemistry of this team. This is the only group in the field that aren’t from the same country, which can add questions about motivation and even language barriers. That being said, these are four long-time veterans who have been out on tour with each other for nearly a decade, and they are some of the most competitive players in the world as well. If this team plays to its best ability, there might not be a more stacked squad in the field.
