Girls’s PGA Championship returning to Hazeltine in Minnesota3 min read

The KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship is heading again to Minnesota.

On Tuesday morning, the PGA of America introduced that Hazeltine Nationwide, the location of the 2016 Ryder Cup, will host the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship for a second time in 2026.

Hazeltine has hosted quite a few prestigious occasions, together with the notorious 2009 PGA Championship that noticed Y.E. Yang take down Tiger Woods. Yang grew to become the primary male participant from Asia to win a serious.

Hazeltine hosted its first PGA Championship in 2002, when Wealthy Beem gained his solely main championship on the Minneapolis-area course. The course has additionally hosted a number of USGA championships, together with two U.S. Opens.

Then, in 2019, Hannah Inexperienced of Australia gained wire-to-wire to say her maiden main on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship—the primary ladies’s main held on the course.

“Offering LPGA Tour athletes extra alternatives to compete at prestigious venues like Hazeltine is important to advancing the ladies’s recreation,” stated LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan in a assertion.

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“When the world’s prime feminine golfers play on famend programs that followers acknowledge, it expands our publicity and permits our gamers to showcase their unimaginable expertise and encourage others throughout the context of this sport’s wealthy historical past and custom.”

The PGA of America, the USGA, and the LPGA have dedicated to internet hosting Girls’s main championships on marquee programs.

The Girls’s PGA Championship most lately occurred at Baltusrol in New Jersey, which has hosted 9 majors on the boys’s facet and three on the ladies’s facet.

Pebble Seaside Golf Hyperlinks hosted the Girls’s U.S. Open in July, the primary time it hosted a ladies’s main. Pebble Seaside has hosted seven males’s majors and levels the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am on the PGA Tour this yr.

However, Hazeltine returns to the fold for the ladies’s recreation, which is a terrific sight to see.

The following 4 hosts for the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship will happen at three historic venues, with the lone outlier being at PGA Frisco—the brand new headquarters of the PGA of America in Frisco, Texas, simply north of Dallas.

• 2024: Sahalee Nation Membership — Sammamish, Washington
• 2025: PGA Frisco — Frisco, Texas
• 2026: Hazeltine Nationwide — Chaska, Minnesota
• 2027: Congressional Nation Membership — Bethesda, Maryland

Apparently, Hazeltine will host the Ryder Cup once more in 2029, changing into the primary American course to stage the biennial competitors twice.

So golf followers ought to get able to see loads of the Minnesota format, as it can host two of probably the most vital occasions within the recreation through the again finish of the 2020s.

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By. You possibly can comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Be sure you take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.