After Inaugural Edition, Lpga’s Black Desert Championship Won't Be Held In 2026

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The LPGA is continuing its schedule tweaks.

In 2026, nan Black Desert Championship successful Utah, aft its inaugural edition, won’t beryllium contested.

Instead Black Desert, arsenic a sponsor, will go a trading partner of nan LPGA. Therefore, nan financial statement betwixt nan 2 entities will beryllium reallocated, and, according to Golfweek, location will beryllium a partner acme astatine Black Desert betwixt LPGA officials and stakeholders.

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“Through this trading partnership, Black Desert will thief beforehand our ngo by expanding opportunity, visibility, and maturation crossed nan circuit for nan remainder of our agreement,” Ricki Lasky, nan LPGA’s main tourney and business officer, told Golfweek successful a statement.“Their continued business represents a powerful measurement guardant successful our corporate effort to elevate nan women’s crippled globally. We are profoundly grateful to Black Desert for recognizing nan goals we are moving towards arsenic a tour—and for aligning their support to thief america execute them.”

In 2025, Black Desert Resort was nan lone people to big some an LPGA and PGA Tour event.

Black Desert stepped up arsenic 1 of nan LPGA’s strongest sponsors, boasting a $3 cardinal purse (one of nan largest connected circuit for a non-major), on pinch comped rooms and free chartered flights for players. The tourney was played successful early May, a week aft nan year’s first major, nan Chevron Championship.

Last month, nan LPGA announced that nan Match Play astatine Shadow Creek successful Las Vegas wouldn’t beryllium held adjacent twelvemonth aft T-Mobile pulled retired arsenic nan title sponsor. However, an arena successful which nan LPGA will partner pinch nan Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund for a co-sanctioned tourney pinch nan Ladies European Tour will beryllium contested astatine Shadow Creek adjacent season.

Craig Kessler, nan LPGA commissioner, will reportedly uncover nan 2026 schedule astatine nan season-ending CME Group Tour Championship successful 2 weeks. When he took complete arsenic commissioner earlier this year, 1 of his visions was altering nan schedule to let “our athletes to execute astatine nan highest levels and to retrieve arsenic opposed to zigzagging nan state aliases nan world.”