Dewi Weber walked off Hazeltine last week with the best finish of her LPGA career, a tie for third at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Then came the part nobody warned her about.

"I've been able to think about it, but I also found out that as of now as much as I want to play, and I'm obviously not in charge of like getting a [captain's] pick or whatever, but like I wouldn't even able to because I don't have LET status—and I did not know that," Weber told Skratch Golf.

To make Team Europe for the 2026 Solheim Cup, played this September in ⁠her ​home country, as an automatic qualifier or even as a captain's pick, a player must hold membership on the Ladies European Tour(LET). Weber, who built her career on the LPGA, doesn't have it and is currently ineligible to play the event.

"I did not know that you had to have that," Weber told
Addie Parker of Skratch Golf. "So that's something that I've been made aware of."

It's not the first time we've seen something like this occur. Finland’s Matilda Castren faced a similar situation back in 2021. At the time, she became the first Finn to win the Mediheal Championship, but because she wasn't an LET member, she had to tally a win on an LET-sanctioned event.

Fortunately, she did so at the Grant Ladies Open and later participated in the Solheim Cup, finishing 3-1 at Inverness. Similarly, Weber's path now runs through three tournaments left on the qualifying calendar:

• the Amundi Evian Championship (July 9-12, France)
• the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open (July 23-26, Dundonald Links, Scotland)
• the AIG Women's Open (July 30-August 2, Royal Lytham & St Annes, England.

All of them are co-sanctioned by the LET, and she needs to win any one of them to receive immediate LET membership.

"I need to win in the next three events. Cause that would do that, that would solve it," Weber added during the same interview.

"I mean, the goal is very clear; it's not easy, obviously. I've never done that before (win); there's plenty of people ​that have never done that before, and that's OK. But the goal is very clear: ‌I would love to play the Solheim ​Cup, and the fact that it's in my home country.

This isn't the first time Weber is fighting for the chance to represent her country

In 2024, she qualified for the Paris Olympics under IOC and International Golf Federation standards. The Dutch Olympic Committee, however, applies its own stricter internal bar: players must rank inside the top 24 of the Olympic Golf Ranking.

And Weber, at 58th, didn't clear it.

"Our own country is saying we don't think you're worthy of being an Olympian, and you're not worthy of representing the Netherlands," Weber told Golf Digest at that time.

"And that, honestly, that hurts. We even asked them, 'Hey, is this about money? Like, we will pay for it ourselves. Our Federation will pay for it.' And they said no, we just don't think you're worth it going to the Olympics."

Only Anne van Dam, who qualified through an alternate pathway, represented Dutch golf in Paris.

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Md Saife Fida