Golf Saudi is partnering with the LPGA to create a new tournament in Las Vegas.
The LPGA announced Wednesday a new co-sanctioned event with the Ladies European Tour in partnership with Golf Saudi. The Aramco Championship will be held April 2-5, 2026, at Shadow Creek Golf Club in Las Vegas with a $4 million purse.
This 120-player tournament marks the first event on U.S. soil with backing from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). It will be part of the PIF Global Series, which includes four other tournaments on the LET schedule in Saudi Arabia (Feb. 11-14), the U.K. (Aug. 6-9), South Korea (Oct. 8-11) and China (Nov. 5-8). The series was previously known as the Aramco Team Series and began in 2020, with Nelly Korda among its past champions. The series has held an event in the U.S. each year since 2021.
New LPGA commissioner Craig Kessler says the Saudi-backed event “reflects exactly where we’re headed in building the global schedule for our tour.”
“We often talk about routing, courses and purses — and 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,” Kessler added. “We also recognize that partnerships like this — built on the LET’s longstanding collaboration with Golf Saudi and PIF — can help strengthen the women’s game on a global scale and elevate opportunities for our athletes.”
The PIF is the main financial backer of LIV Golf. While the PIF’s negotiations to partner with the PGA Tour stalled earlier this year, it has continued to invest in the Ladies European Tour and now the LPGA.
Kessler told the AP that he’s “been blown away by the support” from both the LPGA and LET boards, whose “overwhelming sentiment was, ‘What took so long?'”
This becomes the fourth co-sanctioned event between the LPGA and LET, joining the AIG Women’s Open, Amundi Evian Championship and Women’s Scottish Open.
Shadow Creek had previously hosted the T-Mobile Match Play since 2021.
