AFTER being linked to and performed alongside the lads’s Australian Open since 2021, the Australian Girls’s Open returns to Adelaide, with the ladies’s nationwide championship to function on each the WPGA Tour of Australasia and Women European Tour (LET) schedules as a standalone occasion in early 2026.
The 2026 occasion would be the first staging of at the least three years of the match to be performed within the South Australian capital with the ladies’s open teeing off on the Kooyonga Golf Membership from March 12-15.
Received by main champions Jiyai Shin, Ash Buhai, Inbee Park, Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko in recent times, with Karrie Webb the final native winner again in 2014.
“The present variety of Aussie gamers teeing it up, and contending, on each the LPGA Tour and the Women European Tour every week continues to indicate that we punch above our weight on the worldwide stage and that ladies’s golf has arguably by no means been stronger in Australia,” Karen Lunn, CEO of the WPGA of Australia stated.
Jiyah Shin, the winner of the 2024 Australian Girls’s Open.
“I’m sure our gamers might be decided to interrupt the Aussie drought in 2026 and raise the Patricia Bridges Bowl.”
Golf Australia CEO James Sutherland was happy the South Australian Authorities had agreed to host the Girls’s Open for the subsequent three years and to welcoming each native and worldwide stars to the Kooyonga course subsequent March.
“Kooyonga will present the right stage to showcase the unbelievable expertise set to function within the area, together with our high gamers who compete abroad on the sport’s greatest stage, the rising native expertise from the WPGA Tour of Australasia and the worldwide contingent from the Women European Tour,” Sutherland stated.
The information follows the announcement that Rory McIlroy will headline the lads’s Australian Open in December, with each tournaments set to prosper as standalone fixtures on the Australian sporting calendar.
WPGA Championship and Competition of Golf returns to the Gold Coast
FOLLOWING the discharge of the dates for the Girls’s Australian Open comes one other constructive announcement for feminine skilled golf with the Australian WPGA Championship and Competition of Golf to return to the Gold Coast in 2026.
To be performed at The Palms course on the Sanctuary Cove Golf and Nation Membership, the occasion will tee off from March 19-22, the week instantly after the Open in Adelaide.
Just like the Australian Open, the WPGA Championship might be co-sanctioned between the WPGA Tour of Australasia and the Women European Tour (LET), the winner to be awarded the Karrie Webb Cup, named after the seven-time main winner.
The WPGA Championship will type a central a part of the Competition of Golf, a joint initiative by the PGA of Australia, Mulpha Australia, Tourism & Occasions Queensland and Expertise Gold Coast, to be hosted in Sanctuary Cove’s Marine Village precinct.
The Competition of Golf will deliver collectively golf, meals, vogue, enjoyable, and neighborhood spirit, providing an opportunity to eat, drink, watch, play, be taught, and store
WPGA Tour of Australasia CEO Karen Lunn stated she is trying ahead to the return of the occasion particularly after this 12 months’s cancellation on account of Cyclone Alfred.
“Whereas we had been dissatisfied to cancel this 12 months’s occasion on account of Cyclone Alfred, we’re trying ahead to a refreshed WPGA Championship and Competition of Golf in 2026 and to welcoming again locals and followers to Sanctuary Cove.”
Common Admission to the 2026 Australian WPGA Championship and Competition of Golf might be free.
