Competitors calendar highlighted by Canada’s Nationwide Open Championships –the RBC Canadian Open and CPKC Ladies’s Open
Consists of 11 Nationwide Newbie Championships introduced by BDO, six NextGen Championships,the World Junior Ladies Golf Championship introduced by BFL CANADA, two Canadian Collegiate Invitationals, and the BDO Nationwide Golf League Finals
Golf Canada will even conduct qualifiers for USGA Championships together with Native and Ultimate Qualifying for the U.S. Open. Together with the U.S. Ladies’s Open, U.S. Newbie and Ladies’s Newbie and U.S. Junior Newbie and Ladies’ Junior Championship
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Golf Canada is happy to announce its full 2026 championship schedule, which incorporates newbie {and professional} competitions along with varied qualifiers hosted at member golf equipment throughout Canada.
The 2026 schedule is headlined by Golf Canada’s two Nationwide Open Championships — the one hundred and fifteenth taking part in of the RBC Canadian Open, happening at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course) in Caledon, Ont. June 10-14 and the 52nd taking part in of the CPKC Ladies’s Open, being held at Royal Mayfair Golf Membership in Edmonton, Alta., August 19-23.
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Golf Canada’s 2026 competitors calendar additionally consists of 11 Nationwide Newbie Championships introduced by BDO, six NextGen Championships, two Canadian Collegiate Invitationals, the BDO Nationwide Golf League Finals and the World Junior Ladies Golf Championship, introduced by BFL CANADA.
Because the Nationwide Sport Group and governing physique, Golf Canada conducts the nation’s premier newbie {and professional} golf championships to assist the event of the nation’s high expertise by world-class competitors.
“We’re proud to announce the total championship schedule for 2026 and are excited to welcome the highest golf athletes from throughout Canada and all over the world competing for our prestigious nationwide championships,” stated Mary Beth McKenna, Golf Canada Director, Newbie Championships and Guidelines. “On behalf of Golf Canada and the entire rivals, I wish to thank our company companions, our host golf equipment, event employees and volunteers throughout the nation for his or her continued dedication and assist of our championships and our sport.”
The Canadian Monetary Help Program supported by Gary Cowan Heritage Fund and the Canadian Senior Golf Affiliation will as soon as once more be obtainable for juniors competing within the NextGen Championships, all Nationwide Junior Championships (Juniors and U15), and gamers competing on the Canadian All Talents Championship who meet eligibility necessities. Extra particulars on this system for the 2026 season will probably be launched subsequent month.
Golf Canada will even conduct a number of skilled and newbie championship qualifiers together with 5 RBC Canadian Open Regional Qualifiers together with Ultimate Qualifying for each the RBC Canadian Open and CPKC Ladies’s Open.
Following adjustments to PGA TOUR subject sizes for the 2026 season, gamers who end throughout the high ten per cent of the sphere (and ties) at every Regional Qualifying occasion will earn a spot into Ultimate Qualifying. The Ultimate Qualifier will happen on Sunday, June 7 at The Pulpit Membership in Caledon, Ont. The highest 4 finishers will earn an exemption into the 2026 RBC Canadian Open.
The She Performs Golf Championship Collection will award three exemptions into the 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open by three tournaments throughout Canada. The primary would be the GolfBC Group BC Ladies’s Open, happening June 11-13 at Nicklaus North Golf Course in Whistler, B.C., adopted by the Peloton Glencoe Invitational, happening June 18-20 at The Glencoe Golf and Nation Membership in Calgary, Alta. The ultimate cease would be the PGA Ladies’s Championship of Canada with extra info introduced later. Every event winner will earn an exemption into the 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open.
Different notable qualifiers performed for USGA Championships on the 2026 schedule embody a U.S. Open Native and Ultimate Qualifier, a U.S. Ladies’s Open Qualifier along with qualifiers for the U.S. Ladies’s Open, U.S. Newbie and Ladies’s Newbie and the U.S. Junior Newbie and Ladies’ Junior Championship.
Golf Canada’s championship season kicks off Could 1-3 with the NextGen Pacific Championship at Morningstar Golf Membership in Parksville, B.C. The season concludes with the World Junior Ladies Golf Championship, introduced by BFL CANADA at Brampton Golf Membership in Brampton, Ont. from September 30 to October 3.
To view Golf Canada’s 2026 Championship Schedule together with all host venues, registration necessities and volunteer alternatives go to golfcanada.ca/competitions-calendar/.
2026 Newbie Championship Season at a Look:
The third annual BDO Nationwide Golf League Finals will probably be held at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in Caledon, Ont. on June 6 forward of event week for the RBC Canadian Open. Fifty-two groups will compete in a four-ball web stableford format to crown the BDO Nationwide Golf League champions and earn an invite to characterize Canada at The R&A’s 9 Gap Problem.
The Canadian College/Faculty Championship, introduced by BDO, will probably be held June 15-19 at Membership de Golf La Tempête in Lévis, Que. The championship consists of each a workforce and particular person part that includes Canada’s high college and faculty expertise. The successful males’s and girls’s workforce will qualify for his or her respective 2026 Canadian Collegiate Invitationals, and the person winners will obtain exemptions into their respective 2026 Males’s and Ladies’s Newbie Championship. The UBC Thunderbirds efficiently defended their titles final yr in each the Males’s and Ladies’s divisions, marking the eighth consecutive win for the Ladies’s program. Individually, Alek Mauro (Windsor Lancers) and Julia Alexander-Carew (UBC Okanagan Warmth) took house particular person honours.
The 112th Canadian Ladies’s Newbie Championship, introduced by BDO, takes place July 20-24 at The Toronto Golf Membership in Mississauga, Ont. The champion will earn an exemption into the 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open, the 2026 U.S. Ladies’s Newbie Championship and the 2027 Canadian Ladies’s Newbie Championship. Crew Canada NextGen member, Michelle Xing of Richmond Hill, Ont. was the lone participant below par and gained her first Duchess of Connaught Gold Cup final July.
The 121st Canadian Males’s Newbie Championship, introduced by BDO, will probably be contested July 25-30 in Calgary, Alta. at Mickelson Nationwide Golf Membership and Heritage Pointe Golf Membership. The champion will obtain an exemption into the 2027 RBC Canadian Open, in addition to an invite to the 2026 U.S. Newbie Championship. The winner will even obtain an exemption into Ultimate Qualifying for the 2027 U.S. Open and into the 2027 Canadian Males’s Newbie Championship. Final yr, Declan O’Donovan of Sydney, Australia gained the championship in a two-hole playoff over Crew Canada NextGen member Isaiah Ibit of Orleans, Ont., changing into the primary Australian to win the title since Gary Simpson in 1993.
The Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Newbie Championship, introduced by BDO, will probably be held August 5-7 on the Burlington Golf & Nation Membership in Burlington, Ont. The sphere is open to feminine amateurs aged 25-and-over. The winner will obtain exemptions into the 2026 U.S. Ladies’s Mid-Newbie Championship, 2027 Canadian Ladies’s Newbie and the 2027 Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Newbie Championships. Judith Kyrinis of Thornhill, Ont. gained her fourth Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Newbie title in a three-hole playoff over Nonie Marler of Vancouver, B.C. final season.
The Canadian All Talents Championship, introduced by BDO, will probably be performed at Hylands Golf Membership in Gloucester, Ont. from August 5-7. The nationwide championship for gamers with neurological, mental, sensory, and bodily impairments, is contested over 54-holes. Natasha Stasiuk of Oakville, Ont. is the five-time defending champion on the ladies’s facet, whereas Josh Williams of Tavistock, Ont. gained his first males’s title final yr. The gross stroke play males’s and girls’s champion earn an exemption into the 2027 U.S. Adaptive Open (if eligible).
The Canadian Junior Boys Championship, introduced by BDO, will probably be contested August 11-14 at Wascana Nation Membership in Regina, Sask. The champion will obtain an exemption into the 2027 U.S. Junior Newbie Championship, 2027 Canadian Junior Boys (if eligible) and 2027 Canadian Males’s Newbie Championship. Dawson Lew of Toronto, Ont. grew to become the twelfth participant to assert each the Junior Boys and Juvenile titles in the identical yr final summer time.
The Canadian Junior Ladies Championship, introduced by BDO, will run August 11-14 at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (Heathlands Course). The winner will earn an exemption into the 2027 Canadian Ladies’s Newbie Championship, the 2027 U.S. Ladies’ Junior Championship and the 2027 Canadian Junior Ladies Championship (if eligible). Crew Canada NextGen member Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont. efficiently defended her title final summer time, changing into the primary participant to win the nationwide championship in consecutive years since Heather Kuzmich in 1982.
The Canadian Males’s Mid-Newbie Championship, introduced by BDO, will probably be held August 17-21 at Brantford Golf & Nation Membership in Brantford, Ont. The sphere is open to male amateurs aged 25-and-over. The winner will obtain exemptions into the 2026 U.S. Males’s Mid-Newbie Championship, 2027 Canadian Males’s Newbie and the 2027 Canadian Males’s Mid-Newbie Championships. Final season, Charles Fitzsimmons of King, Ont. grew to become the fourth three-time winner of the nationwide championship after successful back-to-back in 2021 and 2022.
The Canadian U15 Championship, introduced by BDO, will probably be contested August 24-27 at Loyalist Nation Membership in Tub, Ont. The girls and boys’ particular person champions will earn exemptions into their respective 2027 Canadian Junior Championships and invites into the 2026 NextGen Choice Camp. Maggie Zhang (Richmond, B.C.) and Owen Beaulac (Victoria, B.C.) gained the U15 titles final summer time.
The Canadian Males’s Senior Championship, introduced by BDO, will probably be performed at Niakwa Nation Membership in Winnipeg, Man., September 7-11. The winner will earn exemptions into the 2026 U.S. Senior Newbie Championship, the 2027 Canadian Males’s Newbie, 2027 Canadian Males’s Mid-Newbie and the 2027 Canadian Males’s Senior Championships. Final yr, Don Martone of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. comfortably claimed his first nationwide championship by eight photographs.
The third taking part in of the Males’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational will return to Öviinbyrd Golf Membership in MacTier, Ont. from September 12-15. The event will probably be as soon as once more co-hosted by Kent State College and Penn State College. The event options 13 NCAA Division I groups together with the winners from the 2026 Canadian College/Faculty Championship. The person champion will obtain an exemption into the 2027 RBC Canadian Open and the highest 5 will earn exemptions into the 2027 Canadian Males’s Newbie Championship. The Notre Dame Preventing Irish efficiently defended their workforce title final fall, led by Calen Sanderson (Notre Dame) who took house particular person honours. The 2026 Boys NextGen Choice Camp will run concurrently throughout event play.
The Canadian Ladies’s Senior Championship, introduced by BDO, will happen September 15-18 at Pine Hills Golf Membership in Rocky Mountain Home, Alta. The winner will obtain an exemption into the 2026 U.S. Ladies’s Senior Newbie Championship, the 2027 U.S. Ladies’s Senior Open, in addition to the 2027 Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Newbie and the 2027 Canadian Ladies’s Newbie Championships. Final yr, Shelly Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C. gained her third Canadian Ladies’s Senior title, having beforehand gained back-to-back titles in 2021 and 2022.
The second taking part in of the Ladies’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational will happen at Beacon Corridor Golf Membership in Aurora, Ont., from September 20-22. The event will probably be co-hosted by Kent State College and the College of Michigan. The event will characteristic 11 NCAA Division I groups together with the workforce champions from the 2026 Canadian College/Faculty Championship. The person winner will earn an exemption into the 2027 CPKC Ladies’s Open and the highest 5 will earn exemptions into the 2027 Canadian Ladies’s Newbie Championship. Final season, the Auburn Tigers gained the inaugural workforce championship with Veronika Kedroňová of Kent State College incomes the person title. The 2026 Ladies NextGen Choice Camp will run concurrently throughout event play.
The season will conclude with the eleventh taking part in of the World Junior Ladies Golf Championship, introduced by BFL CANADA and can happen at Brampton Golf Membership in Brampton, Ont., from September 28 to October 3. Groups compete as three-member squads whereas additionally competing for a person title. The Republic of Korea are the two-time defending champions, holding off Crew Canada 1 and Spain for the title final yr. World No. 109 on WAGR, Charlotte Naughton of England gained particular person honours and can compete on the 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open this August. The 2026 particular person champion will earn an exemption into the 2027 CPKC Ladies’s Open.
2026 NextGen Championships
The NextGen Championships are a high-performance junior golf sequence. From Could to July, six championships will happen throughout Canada the place the area’s greatest junior golfers will compete to earn exemptions into their respective 2026 nationwide junior championships. NextGen Championships present junior gamers a chance to develop and showcase their abilities on the highest stage of event golf.
The 2026 NextGen Championship host golf equipment embody: Morningstar Golf Membership (Parksville, B.C.), Tangle Creek Golf & Nation Membership (Thornton, Ont.), Wolf Creek Golf Resort (Ponoka, Alta.), Neepawa Golf & Nation Membership (Neepawa, Man.), Membership de golf Lachute (Lachute, Que.), and Hampton Golf Membership (Hampton, N.B.).
2026 Registration Data
Registration for Golf Canada’s 2026 competitions will open on the next dates:
NextGen Championships: Wednesday, February 18 at 12:00pm EST
RBC Canadian Open Qualifying: Wednesday, February 25 at 12:00pm EST
Nationwide Newbie Championships: Wednesday, March 4 at 12:00pm EST
Please go to the Golf Canada competitions calendar and choose the event of your selection for extra info or to register, following the dates listed above.
