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Mimi Rhodes: From Curtis Cup Hero to Solheim Cup Rookie
A Curtis Cup-clinching putt, a professional win 16 days later, three LET titles, and a Solheim Cup selection — Mimi Rhodes’ rise has been remarkably fast.
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Waiting for the Call
Ahead of her Solheim Cup selection, Rhodes sat down with TenGolf to talk about a spot on Team Europe — a goal she says she’s had since she first picked up a club.
Source: TenGolf, “Mimi Rhodes Waits for Solheim Cup Call: ‘I’ve Dreamed of It Since I Picked Up a Club.'”
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Mimi Rhodes at a Glance
Growing Up Between Spain and England
Rhodes was introduced to golf in Sotogrande, Spain, by her grandmother Sue Goodwin, a single-digit handicapper who waited 30 years for her first hole-in-one and then made two in one round. Mimi and her younger sister Patience are the two younger of four siblings, alongside older siblings Monty and Florrie. Rhodes has described an independent upbringing — attending school in Spain without speaking Spanish, then boarding at Millfield School in England — as formative to her development. She also credits rhythmic gymnastics and piano, studied to Grade 7, with instilling the discipline she later applied to putting practice.
Rhodes serves as the official touring professional ambassador for the Alto Club in Sotogrande, an April 2026 appointment alongside Suzann Pettersen as the Academy’s Global Ambassador.
The Curtis Cup Putt That Started Everything
Rhodes signed with Wake Forest in November 2019 as a career-best No. 71 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, and went on to help Wake Forest win the 2023 NCAA Division I Championship. Her defining amateur moment came at the 2024 Curtis Cup at Sunningdale: three down through seven holes against Melanie Green, Rhodes fought back and holed a par putt on the 17th that guaranteed at least a half-point. She lost the 18th and the match finished all square, but that guaranteed half-point supplied the 10½ points GB&I needed to reclaim the Curtis Cup.
Rhodes and Patience were only the second pair of sisters — after Leona and Lisa Maguire — to compete together in Curtis Cup history.
One of the more significant changes in Rhodes’ game took shape during her junior year at Wake Forest, when her coaches called her into their office and told her they wouldn’t let her hit balls on the range until she’d put in two or three hours of putting practice first. Rhodes has said she was furious about it at the time — “all I wanted to do was get onto the range and like perfect my swing” — but came to see how much the work improved her results. She never won an individual college title despite repeatedly coming close, but her improved putting became an important part of the game she carried into professional golf.
Source: Callaway Golf Europe, “On The Course With… Mimi Rhodes.”
A Rookie Season Few Could Match
Rhodes turned professional immediately after the 2024 Curtis Cup and won the Lavaux Ladies Open on the LET Access Series in her third professional start, 16 days later, defeating Billie-Jo Smith in a playoff. Her 2025 LET rookie season then produced three wins in four starts: the Ford Women’s NSW Open (won by 2, a course-record 62 included), the Joburg Ladies Open (beat Casandra Alexander by 1), and the Dutch Ladies Open (won by 2). The run earned her LET Rookie of the Year and a second-place finish in the season’s Order of Merit, behind Shannon Tan.
Rhodes also made her major debut on invitation in 2025, missing the cut at the Women’s PGA Championship and the Evian Championship while finishing T19 at the AIG Women’s Open — the tournament where her ricochet ace off Steph Kyriacou’s ball became one of the year’s most talked-about shots.
A Pressure-Cooker Path to the LPGA
Rhodes earned her LPGA Tour status at the December 2025 Q-Series, closing with a 72 to finish T24 at 5-under — just inside the top-25-and-ties cutoff. Her 2026 LPGA rookie season began with a top-10 at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore, her first start as an LPGA Tour member, followed by a second top-10 at the Ford Championship. She missed the cut at the Chevron Championship and has spoken candidly about the harder transition to LPGA-level fields compared with the LET.
Mimi on Pressure, Putting, and Q-Series
Rhodes has called Q-Series “really stressful,” admitting she “probably made it the most stressful way possible.” Needing a birdie on the final hole to secure her card, she hit a 5-iron to roughly 14 feet and faced what she called her “literal arch nemesis” — a left-to-right, downhill breaking putt. She made it, and called the moment “a dream come true.”
Rhodes has also credited breath work and meditation with strengthening the mental side of her game, saying the value became clear once those techniques held up “under so much pressure.”
Source: Callaway Golf Europe, “On The Course With… Mimi Rhodes.”
A Winning Solheim Cup Debut
On August 3, 2026, Team Europe captain Anna Nordqvist named Rhodes one of four captain’s picks for the 2026 Solheim Cup, alongside veteran Leona Maguire and fellow rookies Julia Lopez Ramirez and Nastasia Nadaud. Explaining her choice of Rhodes over Chiara Tamburlini, Nordqvist said, “I felt Mimi showed a little better form.” Rhodes made her Solheim Cup debut at Bernardus Golf as Europe won 15–13. Rhodes finished 2–1–0, earning both of her points alongside Nastasia Nadaud in Friday four-ball and Saturday foursomes. They became the first rookie pairing in Solheim Cup history to win two matches together.
Before the pick was announced, Rhodes explained the appeal of a Solheim Cup spot: golf, she said, is normally “just you and your caddy out on the golf course,” and the team event is a rare chance to share it with “other people around you and being able to root for them” — from the foursomes pairings to the fist bumps.
Source: Callaway Golf Europe, “On The Course With… Mimi Rhodes.”
What Clubs Has Mimi Rhodes Been Documented Using?
As documented during her 2025 LET winning stretch, Rhodes’ bag was built around a Callaway Elyte Triple Diamond driver, a PING G440 Max 3-wood, PING G430 hybrid and i230 irons, PING s159 wedges, an Odyssey Black Series Tour Design putter, and a Titleist Pro V1 golf ball. A full club-by-club breakdown will be added once her most recent setup is confirmed.
Mimi Rhodes’ Golf Career
Mimi Rhodes on YouTube Shorts
Revisiting the Ricochet Ace
Source: YouTube Shorts, “#LPGALookback” (posted July 28, 2026).
Her First Hole-in-One, in Tenerife
Source: YouTube Shorts (posted January 21, 2026).
How Mimi Rhodes Got Hooked on Golf
Source: Ladies European Tour, YouTube Shorts (posted October 7, 2025).
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Rhodes’ documented 2025 setup combined equipment from Callaway, PING, Odyssey and Titleist — see what may fit your own swing with a free fitting.
Equipment details are documented as of Mimi Rhodes’ 2025 LET winning season and will be updated once her current setup is confirmed.