Canada’s Brooke Henderson has been named to the inaugural group of LPGA Tour gamers dedicated to WTGL, a brand new tech‑pushed ladies’s group golf league launching within the winter of 2026‑27. The LPGA and TMRW Sports activities introduced the primary 5 confirmed athletes on Monday, a bunch that features World No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand, England’s Charley Hull, New Zealand’s Lydia Ko, U.S. standout Lexi Thompson and Henderson, the winningest skilled golfer in Canadian historical past.
Henderson, 26, enters the league with a résumé unmatched in Canadian golf: 14 LPGA Tour victories, together with two majors, three Olympic appearances and a number of season‑ending honours such because the LPGA Founders Award. Her inclusion locations her alongside each the present world No. 1 and a number of other established international champions as WTGL positions itself as a contemporary, leisure‑oriented showcase for the ladies’s recreation.
WTGL will function brief‑kind, group‑based mostly match play contained in the customized‑constructed SoFi Heart in Palm Seaside Gardens, Fla., the identical venue that hosts TGL offered by SoFi, the lads’s league co‑based by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
“WTGL will likely be a worldwide stage to showcase LPGA Tour stars, and this primary wave of dedicated gamers represents that chance with a number of the world’s finest,” mentioned Mike McCarley, founder and CEO, TMRW Sports activities. “These gamers will thrive in WTGL’s aggressive setting as followers will witness their talent and join extra deeply with their personalities by means of the unprecedented entry the league delivers with each participant mic’d within the fashionable match play group format.”
Further WTGL participant bulletins and group data are anticipated within the coming months. Extra particulars can be found at WTGLGolf.com.
Supply: LPGA
