LPGA to Launch New Tournament Featuring Professionals and Collegiate Players in 2027

Nanea Cup to Debut in Hawaii Next March
95 Professionals and 25 Collegiate Players to Compete
Vast Links Course, Total Prize Fund of $4 Million

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour has established a new tournament in which both professional and collegiate players will participate.

On July 22 (Korean time), the LPGA Tour announced that, in March next year, the Nanea Cup will be held in Hawaii, United States, where professionals and members of U.S. women's college golf teams will compete. This newly established tournament offers a total prize fund of 4 million dollars (approximately KRW 5.9 billion). However, as amateur college players maintain their amateur status, they cannot receive prize money.

The panoramic view of Nanea Golf Club, the battlefield for the Nanea Cup, a new tournament on next year's LPGA Tour. Provided by LPGA

The tournament will take place over four days starting March 11 next year at Nanea Golf Club, Hawaii. Ninety-five LPGA Tour professionals and twenty-five players from Stanford University, University of Texas, University of Arkansas, Texas A&M University, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will compete. After the first and second rounds, the top 50 players, including ties, will advance to the final rounds. College players who make the cut will compete with professionals through the fourth round for the championship trophy.

Nanea Golf Club, which opened in 2003, will host a professional tournament for the first time. The course was designed by David McLay Kidd. It is located between mountains and the sea and features a vast, windy links course.

Craig Kesler, LPGA Commissioner, said, "We are delighted to add the Nanea Cup to next year's LPGA Tour schedule," and added, "Everything about this tournament, from the course to the total prize fund, is perfect."

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