The 2025 LPGA Tour season is set to be a thrilling one as the organization celebrates its 75th anniversary and players like Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko work to recreate their 2024 successes next year with a fresh slate of events on tap.
The 2025 schedule features 35 tournaments, including the Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown and the Grant Thornton Invitational, and will see the world’s best athletes compete for a whopping $131 million in prize money, an amount that has substantially increased since 2021.
Several of the 33 official events on next year’s docket will be contested at new venues, and two new tournaments have been added to the annual calendar: the Black Desert Championship and the Mayakoba Open.
The Black Desert Championship will mark the LPGA’s return to Utah after a decades-long hiatus and will see the world’s best athletes compete at Black Desert Resort Golf Course in Ivins, Utah, which also hosted a PGA Tour event in 2024. The Tour last competed in the Beehive State in 1964 when the Riverside Ladies Open was held at Riverside Country Club in Provo, Utah. That event was won by Clifford Ann Creed, who collected $1,350 as part of her victory. Comparatively, the 2025 Black Desert Championship will see athletes compete for a share of a $3 million purse.
The Mayakoba Open will be played at Mayakoba’s El Camaleón golf course, a facility that for many years was the host venue for what was most recently known as the Worldwide Technology Championship on the PGA Tour. With exotic wildlife and stunning seaside views, El Camaleón will serve as a gorgeous locale for some of the Tour’s top talent, who will be duking it out for a total purse of $2.5 million. The Mayakoba Open will be the first LPGA event to be held in Mexico since the 2017 Citibanamex Lorena Ochoa Match Play presented by Aeromexico and Delta, a tournament that was won by major champion Sei Young Kim.
In terms of new venues, three major championships that rotate host facilities each year – the U.S. Women’s Open presented by Ally, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and the AIG Women’s Open – will see the game’s best tee it up at three courses at which the LPGA Tour has never before competed.
The U.S. Women’s Open will be played at Erin Hills in Erin, Wis., for the first time in the tournament’s history. The facility has previously hosted four other USGA championships, one of which was the 2008 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links, won by Tiffany Joh, who went on to compete on the LPGA Tour, and the most notable of which is the 2017 U.S. Open, which saw Brooks Koepka capture the first of his five major championship victories.
Amy Yang will be working to defend her KPMG Women’s PGA Championship title in 2025 at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco in Frisco, Texas, home of the PGA of America. It’s the second major championship to be held at the facility, as PGA Frisco was the venue for the 2023 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, and it’s the first time the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship will be played in Texas since its inception.
Royal Porthcawl will welcome the AIG Women’s Open and defending champion Lydia Ko next summer, having only hosted one other women’s golf event in its longstanding history, the 1964 Curtis Cup. Located in Porthcawl, Wales, Royal Porthcawl has seen four other professional tournaments contested at the venue before the AIG Women’s Open, including the 1961 British Masters and three previous iterations of the Senior Open Championship, the most recent of which took place in 2023.
Other notable venue changes will be seen at the Founders Cup, Ford Championship presented by Wild Horse Pass, JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro, The Standard Portland Classic and BMW Ladies Championship.
For the first time since the tournament began in 2011, the Founders Cup will take place in Florida in 2025 at Bradenton Country Club, which hosted the 2024 LPGA Drive On Championship, won by Bradenton native Nelly Korda. The event was previously held at Wildfire Golf Club in Arizona, as well as Mountain Ridge Country Club and Upper Montclair Country Club, both of which are located in New Jersey.
The second edition of the Ford Championship will move to Whirlwind Golf Club in Phoenix, Ariz., while the JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro will be played at El Caballero Country Club, as its usual host course, Wilshire Country Club, undergoes renovations.
Venues for The Standard Portland Classic and the BMW Ladies Championship are still to be determined for the 2025 iterations of those championships.
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*Credit information www.lpga.com written by By: Sarah Kellam
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