Canada’s Nationwide Ladies’s Open returns to the Metropolis of Champions for the primary time since 2013
CPKC Has Coronary heart to go away significant group legacy in help of pediatric coronary heart well being
EDMONTON, Alta. – Golf Canada and Canadian Pacific Kansas Metropolis (CPKC) introduced at present that the historic Royal Mayfair Golf Membership in Edmonton, Alta. will host the 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open.
The 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open in Edmonton can be held on August 17-23, 2026, the 52nd enjoying of Canada’s Nationwide Ladies’s Open Championship.
The 2026 event marks the return of the Nationwide Ladies’s Open to Royal Mayfair for the third time and first since LPGA Tour star and three-time CPKC Ladies’s Open champion Lydia Ko received the 2013 occasion at Royal Mayfair as a 15-year-old beginner. Ko received back-to-back occasions as an beginner in 2012 and 2013 and would go on to win her third Canadian title in 2015. Royal Mayfair additionally hosted the championship in 2007, an occasion received by LPGA Tour legend Lorena Ochoa.
The 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open will mark the eighth time that Canada’s Nationwide Ladies’s Open Championship has been contested within the province of Alberta.
“In partnership with CPKC, we’re very happy to substantiate that the CPKC Ladies’s Open will return to the Royal Mayfair Golf Membership in 2026,” mentioned Golf Canada Chief Working Officer Garrett Ball. “Edmonton is a passionate golf group and Royal Mayfair is an excellent venue to problem the world’s finest gamers. We lengthen our due to the membership and employees at Royal Mayfair in addition to the Metropolis of Edmonton who will as soon as once more show to be fabulous hosts for our Nationwide Ladies’s Open Championship.”
The CPKC Ladies’s Open via the CPKC Has Coronary heart program will as soon as once more depart a significant legacy within the host group of Canada’s Nationwide Ladies’s Open Championship. Since 2014, CPKC has raised greater than C$23 million for pediatric coronary heart well being within the communities which have hosted the CPKC Ladies’s Open via the corporate’s event sponsorship and the CPKC Has Coronary heart program.
“We’re very excited to deliver the CPKC Ladies’s Open again to Edmonton and as soon as once more again to our dwelling province of Alberta,” mentioned CPKC President and CEO Keith Creel. “For greater than a decade, this event, via our CPKC has Coronary heart group funding program, has helped construct stronger communities throughout Canada by investing within the coronary heart well being of our younger individuals. We stay up for persevering with that legacy subsequent summer season in Edmonton.”
The CPKC Has Coronary heart group associate can be introduced in early 2026.
For greater than a century, Royal Mayfair has been acknowledged as one in all Western Canada’s premier golf amenities. Formed by legends comparable to Stanley Thompson and Les Furber in addition to a Doug Carrick renovation lately, the membership is constantly ranked throughout the ScoreGolf Prime 100. The membership celebrated its centennial in 2022 and is one in all 17 golf equipment to have hosted each the Ladies’s and Males’s Nationwide Open Championship. In 2023, Royal Mayfair accomplished an intensive clubhouse renovation with fashionable facilities for a premier member and championship expertise.
“On behalf of the Board of Governors together with our membership, administration and employees, we’re thrilled to be named host of the 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open,” mentioned Royal Mayfair Golf Membership President Daniel Kickham. “We stay up for as soon as once more welcoming the various golf fanatics from inside our metropolis, surrounding communities and throughout the province to one in all Canada’s premier sporting occasions. We’re equally enthusiastic about partnering with CPKC and Golf Canada in elevating crucial funds for native youngsters’s charities.”
The Board of Royal Mayfair has additionally appointed longtime Edmontonians and Royal Mayfair members, Marilyn Cox and Don McGarvey as Host Membership Event Co-Chairs.
Considered one of Canada’s premier annual sporting occasions and a signature cease on the LPGA Tour, the 2024 CPKC Ladies’s Open was named Sport Tourism Canada’s Worldwide Sport Occasion of the Yr on the 2025 Sport Tourism Canada PRESTIGE Awards. The CPKC Ladies’s Open additionally earned the LPGA Tour’s Event of the Yr award in back-to-back years in 2022 and 2023.
“Edmonton boasts a wealthy legacy of remarkable ladies’s sporting occasions, groups, and heroes throughout numerous sports activities, and we’re thrilled to welcome the world’s best ladies’s golfers again to Alberta’s capital metropolis,” says Mayor Amarjeet Sohi. “This occasion not solely highlights our ardour for sports activities but additionally conjures up the following era of athletes in our metropolis whereas bringing our group collectively.”
“Discover Edmonton is thrilled to welcome the world’s prime golfers to our metropolis to compete within the 2026 CPKC Ladies’s Open,” mentioned Traci Bednard, President and CEO of Discover Edmonton. “This occasion additional showcases our dedication to supporting ladies’s sport in our metropolis. We’re excited to host hundreds of tourists from across the globe to expertise the very best of Edmonton subsequent August and work with our valued companions to assist maximize the affect of this unbelievable occasion.”
The 2025 CPKC Ladies’s Open will happen August 20-24, 2025, on the Mississaugua Golf and Nation Membership in Mississauga, Ont. MacKids, the arm of Hamilton Well being Sciences Basis devoted to fundraising for MacMaster Kids’s Hospital, has been chosen as host charity for this 12 months’s occasion with Trillium Well being Companions serving as a group beneficiary.
For details about tickets, volunteer alternatives or company hospitality, please go to www.cpkcwomensopen.com.
