Days from the 20th Solheim Cup, Kent and Scottie do something the show has never done: tier all 24 players, S through F, one at a time. Nelly Korda, Lottie Woad and Charley Hull anchor the top — but the first real argument lands early, when Scottie puts Alison Lee in S tier on the strength of a climb from outside the world's top 300 to the top 60 in five months, and Kent counters with a 2-5 Solheim record. From there it's Rose Zhang, Esther Henseleit, Lauren Coughlin, Allisen Corpuz and Céline Boutier through A tier; Maja Stark as Europe's tipping-point player, plus Leona Maguire, Nastasia Nadaud, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Jennifer Kupcho, Yealimi Noh and Andrea Lee through B; and a C tier that swallows a third of the field — Linn Grant, Lindy Duncan, Megan Khang, Carlota Ciganda, Julia Lopez Ramirez. The widest gap between them is Angel Yin: A tier for one, D tier for the other, and neither man moves. They finish on Mimi Rhodes' captain's pick, Lilia Vu turning up at Bernardus as an alternate — "an unserious decision" — where Anna Nordqvist would rank as a player, whether Europe pushed its changing of the guard one Solheim too early, and a final score prediction with the DraftKings line hanging over it.
0:00 Cold open
0:33 Welcome — the 20th Solheim Cup
1:53 How the tiers work: S through F
2:44 S tier
3:58 Nelly Korda
6:35 Lottie Woad
9:11 Charley Hull vs Alison Lee — the first split
16:38 A tier
17:43 Rose Zhang
20:57 Esther Henseleit
22:49 Lauren Coughlin
26:05 Allisen Corpuz
28:53 Céline Boutier
32:31 Angel Yin — the biggest disagreement on the board
34:16 Auston Kim
35:47 B tier
37:20 Maja Stark, Europe's tipping point
40:43 Leona Maguire
43:56 Nastasia Nadaud
46:20 Nanna Koerstz Madsen
47:35 Jennifer Kupcho
49:00 Yealimi Noh
51:05 Andrea Lee
53:47 C tier
55:12 Linn Grant
57:21 Lindy Duncan
59:53 Megan Khang
1:03:08 Carlota Ciganda
1:05:54 Julia Lopez Ramirez
1:07:35 D tier and F tier — Mimi Rhodes
1:10:22 Angel Yin in D tier
1:12:18 The full 24, tier by tier
1:13:44 What surprised you most
1:15:39 Lilia Vu on the ground as an alternate
1:20:54 Where Anna Nordqvist would rank as a player
1:23:29 Europe's changing of the guard
1:31:01 Predictions — and the DraftKings line
1:32:13 Sign-off
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