US Women's Open - storylines to follow: Nelly Korda, Charley Hull, Solheim Cup watch and major contenders at Riviera

Nelly Korda is certainly showing shades of her 2024 self, a year in which she won seven times and dominated the LPGA Tour schedule - including major success at the Chevron Championship.

The world No 1 has followed a fallow year in 2025 by this starting this campaign with a bang, winning the season-opening Tournament of Champions and then finishing runner-up in her next three events.

She added a second Chevron Championship in three years and then won the Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba a week later, with Korda finishing no worse than tied-eighth in 10 of her last 11 worldwide starts.

The 27-year-old's game is trending in the right direction and it's hard to pick a winner outside of the American when she's in this type of form. She'll no doubt be keen to go one better than last year's US Women's Open, where she finished tied runner-up to Maja Stark.

Korda is ranked seventh for driving distance on the LPGA Tour this season, with this week's venue - Riviera Country Club - having rewarded big hitters in the past.

Alison Nicholas was the last Englishwoman to win the US Women's Open back in 1997, a decade on from Dame Laura Davies becoming the first to achieve the feat. England hasn't produced a female major champion since Georgia Hall won the AIG Women's Open in 2018.

There are five Englishwomen in this week's field, with Lottie Woad and Charley Hull among those looking to break that duck, while Mimi Rhodes, Bronte Law and amateur Nellie Ong complete the English contingent.

Woad won her last LPGA Tour start at the Kroger Queen City Championship and enjoyed good form at the majors, contending at the Evian Championship while still an amateur and finishing no worse than tied eighth in her next two majors.

Hull finished runner-up at this event in 2023, one of 11 career top 10s in majors without winning, although hasn't ended better than 10th in her six worldwide starts since winning the PIF Saudi Ladies International in February.

Rhodes was a three-time winner on the Ladies European Tour but comes into the major with four missed cuts in her last six starts, as Law returns to the event for the first time since 2023 after progressing through Final Qualifying.

Anna Nordqvist's European Solheim Cup Team will be announced after the AIG Women's Open in August, with the top two players on the LET Solheim Cup points table and the top six players available on the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings securing automatic spots.

The remaining four spots will be filled with captain's picks, with this week's major offering a chance to earn much-needed qualification points to bolster hopes of featuring for Team Europe in the Netherlands this September.

Hull and Chiara Tamburlini hold the two LET spots as things stand, while Celine Boutier all-but cemented her place via the world rankings with her victory at the ShopRite LPGA Classic on Sunday.

Woad, Stark, Boutier, Carlota Ciganda, Linn Grant and Esther Henseleit current sit in the automatic spots via their world ranking, with Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen and England's Rhodes the closest challengers.

There will be plenty of changes to those automatic spots over the coming months, with a strong performance in California this week doing no harm putting a player in Solheim Cup contention.