{"id":266369,"date":"2025-11-06T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266369\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:11:09","slug":"lpga-partners-saudi-golf-to-launch-las-vegas-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266369\/","title":{"rendered":"LPGA partners Saudi Golf to launch Las Vegas tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The tournament will be played at Shadow Creek Golf Club in Las Vegas from March 30 to April 5, 2026. (LPGA Imagery)<\/p>\n

The US\u2019 Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour\u00a0has partnered with Saudi Golf to launch a new tournament in Las Vegas, US, next year.<\/p>\n

The Aramco Championship at Shadow Creek Golf Club in Las Vegas will take place from March 30 to April 5, 2026, featuring a $4 million prize purse and a 120-player field.<\/p>\n

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The 72-hole tournament has been co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET) and is part of the LET\u2019s five-event Global Series, funded by Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund (PIF).<\/p>\n

It is the fourth co-sanctioned event by LPGA and LET alongside the Women\u2019s British Open, the Evian Championship in France, and the Women\u2019s Scottish Open, and builds on LET\u2019s lucrative partnership with Saudi Golf.<\/p>\n

LET\u2019s partnership with Saudi Golf, launched amid the Covid pandemic in 2020, is credited with saving LET from financial crisis and saw the launch of the tour\u2019s lucrative Aramco Series, which helped increase the tour\u2019s total prize money from $18 million in 2020 to around $39 million in 2024.<\/p>\n

It is the first tie-up between the LPGA and Saudi Golf\/PIF after years of discussion under various LPGA commissioners since the launch of the PIF-backed LIV Golf Circuit in men\u2019s golf.<\/p>\n

However, the partnership has\u00a0been considered controversial up to now, given the number of accusations of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and restrictions on women within the kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u00a0LPGA commissioner Craig Kessler has now said: \u201cThe Aramco Championship, part of the PIF Global Series, at Shadow Creek, reflects exactly where we\u2019re headed in building the global schedule for our tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe often talk about routing, courses, and purses \u2013\u00a0and this event checks every box: a spectacular West Coast setting, an iconic course, and a purse that continues our momentum in raising the bar for our athletes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also recognize that partnerships like this \u2013\u00a0built on the LET\u2019s longstanding collaboration with Golf Saudi and PIF \u2014 can help strengthen the women\u2019s game on a global scale and elevate opportunities for our athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous PIF Global Series events have been played entirely in the US but sanctioned solely by the LET.<\/p>\n

Alongside Las Vegas, however, the other four events in the series for 2026 will be played in Saudi Arabia, London, Seoul, and China. The total prize purse across the five events will be $15 million.<\/p>\n

Yasir Al-Rumayyan, chairman of the board of Saudi Golf and governor of PIF, said: \u201cWomen’s golf continues to go from strength to strength, and PIF has a strong track record of backing that growth and investing in the future of the women’s game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of women’s golf has never been brighter, on and off the course.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new partnership comes after Al-Rumayyan signed a framework agreement with the men\u2019s PGA Tour and European Tour in June 2023 that ended several lawsuits and positioned PIF as an investor.<\/p>\n

However, the deal was never finalized, and the PGA Tour secured a private equity investor in Strategic Sports Group.<\/p>\n

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