Mired in the worst season of her career, what should we expect from Lexi Thompson at the Solheim Cup?

FINCA CORTESIN, Spain — Listed under the player-profile sections in the official Solheim Cup program are each competitor’s best results this year. European stalwart Celine Boutier’s, by way of example, takes up six lines and contains three wins, including her major championship victory at the Amundi Evian Championship. On the other side of the trans-Atlantic aisle, America’s Nelly Korda has eight lines of text, detailing a plethora of top-10 finishes as well as a lone victory.

Then there is Lexi Thompson. Under her profile there is only a blank space. Sadly, by saying absolutely nothing, that gap spoke volumes. As has been well-documented, the 28-year-old Floridian has not played anything like her best in 2023. In fact, she had been a lot closer to her worst, a depressing state of affairs for a player good enough to win a major title—the 2014 Kraft Nabisco…