{"id":777071,"date":"2026-07-03T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777071\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:33:10","slug":"she-wants-to-be-the-first-dutch-golfer-to-play-in-the-solheim-cup-this-rule-is-making-it-hard-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777071\/","title":{"rendered":"She wants to be the first Dutch golfer to play in the Solheim Cup. This rule is making it hard \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Photo: Andrew Wevers]<\/p>\n

Dewi Weber enjoyed a feel-good finish last week at the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship. Her best performance in three previous major starts was a T-30, but at Hazeltine National, the 30-year-old from the Netherlands tied for third. That earned her $US752,089, doubling her career LPGA earnings.<\/p>\n

FROM THE VAULT: Dutch golfer denied Olympic spot is making a BIG statement<\/a><\/p>\n

Afterwards, Weber, who moved up 128 spots in the Rolex Rankings to 82nd with her Women\u2019s PGA showing, talked about how she was hoping the finish would help her bid to make the European team for this year\u2019s Solheim Cup, which is being played in her home country just outside Amsterdam. But this week she discovered that that dream will required a few more hurdles to clear.<\/p>\n

In order for a player to make the European side, she must have membership on the Ladies European Tour, something that Weber does not. Additionally, membership is needed not just to make the team as an automatic qualifier but also as a captain\u2019s pick should Anna Nordqvist want to pick the Dutchwoman to help bolster the galleries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not know that you had to have that,\u201d Weber told Skratch Golf<\/a>. \u201cSo that\u2019s something that I\u2019ve been made aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the competition approaching in September, time is running out. There are three events remaining on the LET schedule during the qualifying period \u2013 including next week\u2019s Amundi Evian Championship \u2013 and Weber says she has to win one of them in order to be eligible for immediate member status.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, the goal is very clear. It\u2019s not easy, obviously. I\u2019ve never done that (win) before; there\u2019s plenty of people that have never done that before and that\u2019s OK. But the goal is very clear: I would love to play Solheim Cup and the fact that it\u2019s in my home country. I would love nothing more, but I need to play well.\u201d<\/p>\n

If this all sounds familiar, a similar situation took place in 2021 with Finland\u2019s Matilda Castren. That year she won the Mediheal Championship to become the first Finn to win an LPGA event. She was also at the time the only European player to have won on the LPGA Tour that season. But she wasn\u2019t an LET member and had to win a LET-sanctioned event to break through, which she wound up doing at the Grant Ladies open in Finland that July. Castren went on to be the first Finnish golfer to play in the Solheim Cup and went 3-1 at Inverness that year.<\/p>\n

Representing her country has been a challenge for Weber. In 2024, she qualified to compete in the Olympics in Paris, but her Rolex Ranking of 336th caused the Dutch Olympic Committee to say she couldn\u2019t not play, believing she did not have a realistic chance at winning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Andrew Wevers] Dewi Weber enjoyed a feel-good finish last week at the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship. Her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,368423,755,138747,28635,368424,85],"class_list":["post-777071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dewi-weber","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-ladies-european-tour","tag-solheim-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}