AIG Women's Open Preview: Majors Poker Draft, Team Europe's Last Solheim Spot & Royal Lytham Hole by Hole

Kent Paisley and Scottie "Worldwide" Leonard close the major season with their final draft of the year, splitting a 25-player pool ahead of the 50th AIG Women's Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes. Kent — carrying a 3-1 Majors Poker series lead and two days removed from the San Francisco half marathon — opens with Nelly Korda on her birthday week, noting that a win there hands her the LPGA's Grand Slam and a straight ticket to the Hall of Fame, then stacks Brooke Henderson, the world number two and Lydia Ko behind her. Scottie counters with Charley Hull, defending champion Miyu Yamashita and Alison Lee, and brings the view from inside the ropes: a forty-minute call with his player, who walked eighteen at Lytham that morning and put both a three iron and a four iron in the bag for a course playing fast and firm enough that almost nobody is hitting driver. He walks the holes that will decide it — the wind pushing right-to-left at 8, the blind tee shot at 16, the right-hand bunkers at 18 you cannot reach the green from — and puts the winning score at 13 under. In between, the two build competing top-five lists of the LPGA players who should launch YouTube channels, a segment Charley Hull's own Sweet Spot Golf launch sets up, landing on Megan Khang, Ariya Jutanugarn, Linn Grant, the Iwai twins and, at the top for both, Nelly and Lydia. They also map Team Europe's last open Solheim spot down to the two players still in range with one week to play, and Scottie names the four captain's picks he believes Anna Nordqvist would make if the team were set today. Kent's hot take lands last and has nothing to do with any of it: he does not want a golf course to start with a par three.0:00 — "Just eat at Chipotle. None of this stuff is that good"2:07 — Majors Poker: a 3–1 lead and 25 names2:54 — Lytham recon: a new three iron and a new four iron4:50 — Nelly Korda on her birthday week6:44 — "Charley launched her YouTube"9:37 — Brooke Henderson and the engagement boost14:22 — Jenny Shin won — and why Kent still passed16:12 — Who else should launch a YouTube channel?16:56 — Megan Khang, the first to ask how you're doing25:49 — Nelly with control of the edit28:13 — The Iwai twins and the Dallas Cowboys29:57 — "Drum roll please" — Lydia Ko at number one32:36 — One Solheim spot, 35 players who could take it37:57 — Fast, firm, and no drivers: Lytham hole by hole41:31 — Georgia Hall shot 17 under here42:53 — Kent's hot take: don't start me on a par threeLinks:The Edge WebsiteThe Edge YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@golf.theedgeshowSubscribe to The Edge Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.