Rose Zhang, Megan Khang, Andrea Lee and Lauren Coughlin are among the players who will join world number one Nelly Korda on the US Solheim Cup team this year.

The team’s nine automatically qualified players were confirmed on Sunday after the AIG Women’s Open. This leaves Stacy Lewis with three captain candidates to name on Tuesday.

“I’m just happy that the team is now complete. A lot of this team has been with us since 2023, so many of them have experience,” Lewis said in a press release. “We had five who qualified this week and I’m happy to have Megan and Andrea back. They were instrumental in last year’s success.”

The top seven players in the US Solheim Cup team rankings on Sunday were Korda, Lilia Vu, Coughlin, Ally Ewing, Allisen Corpuz, Khang and Lee. Khang and Lee secured their spots after Sunday’s results, although Khang missed the cut in the Women’s Open and Lee finished 22nd.

The US team then added the two highest-ranked Americans in the Rolex (world) rankings who were not already on the team: Zhang, currently ranked No. 9 in the world, and Alison Lee, No. 25.

For the 21-year-old Zhang, it will be her second Solheim Cup in two years as the biennial event is now held in even-numbered years. The rising star, who won her first event as a professional on the LPGA Tour in June 2023, joined the Americans in Spain last fall, but Europe retained the Solheim Cup after the score ended in a 14-14 tie.

Alison Lee will be taking part in the Solheim Cup for the second time, having played the event in 2015. The nine-year gap between the two appearances is the longest for a player in the history of the US team.

The only Solheim Cup rookie among the nine qualifiers is Coughlin, the definition of a late bloomer. The 31-year-old has been playing on the LPGA Tour since 2018, but in July she claimed her first career victory in Canada at the CPKC Women’s Open. It took just another three weeks for her to claim her second title when she won the ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open last week.

American players Lewis could consider as captain include Angel Yin, Cheyenne Knight, Jennifer Kupcho and Lexi Thompson, who is retiring from full-time golf at the end of the season. Lewis said in July that Thompson is “exactly where she needs to be” to make the team.

The Solheim Cup will be played September 13-15 at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia.