Golf’s Ladies European Tour (LET) has announced a record prize purse for its newly released 2026 schedule, which features 30 events held across 21 countries and spanning five continents.
The tour said next year will see a projected total prize fund of more than €39 million ($45.8 million) distributed across its tournaments, starting with the flagship PIF Saudi Ladies International in Riyadh on February 11.
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Highlights of the 2026 LET calendar include a new event in Mauritius and the return of the Women’s Australian Open, as well as the Solheim Cup teams’ competition between Team Europe and Team USA.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) looms large, having secured title sponsorship for the revamped global series of five lucrative women’s events on the LET’s schedule, with this year’s total prize fund reaching $15 million – up by $2 million from 2025.
Along with the season-opening PIF Saudi Ladies International, this year’s PIF Global Series includes April’s Aramco Championship at Shadow Creet that will be co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour, the PIF London Championship (August), Aramco Korea Championship (October), and Aramco China Championship (November).
LET board chair Marta Figueras-Dotti said: “As a global tour, we are pleased to be making an impact on five different continents and offering our players more opportunities in 2026 across 21 countries.
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By GlobalData“It’s an exciting time with the 20th edition of the Solheim Cup on the horizon, new venues, and returning events across the season.”
A minimum of 25 events will be televised, either via highlights packages or with a full live world feed in 2026.
The tour includes a four-week swing in Australia, featuring the Women’s NSW Open, the Australian Women’s Classic, the Women’s Australian Open, and the Australian WPGA Championship.
In April, the LET will travel to the US for the Aramco Championship, before moving to South Africa, with May to feature the tour’s first event in Mauritius.
The first half of the season will end in Europe, with events in Germany, Morocco, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Belgium.
The second half of the season will open with the Scottish Open before heading to the Women’s Open in England – the final major of the year – with August to also include the PIF London Championship, Swiss Ladies Open, and Women’s Irish Open.
September features the Solheim Cup at Benardus in the Netherlands, as well as the La Sella Open in Spain and the Ladies Italian Open in Milan.
October sees the Open de France before LET’s Asian swing that will feature the Aramco Korea Championship, Women’s Indian Open, Ladies Open, and Aramco China Championship. The tour will then return to Europe for the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España.
The new schedule and record prize fund announcements come less than a week after LET bolstered its coverage in the UK and Ireland with a renewal of its rights agreement with UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky for another five years.
The new agreement sees Sky Sports continue its exclusive coverage of all LET tournaments through 2030, with the deal also covering the next three editions of the flagship Solheim Cup.
The new deal, brokered by LET’s exclusive media rights advisor Pitch International, will take the partnership into its 30th year.
The upcoming year will be pivotal for LET as it grapples with the loss of transformative chief executive Alexandra Armas, who stepped down in October.
Armas oversaw the commercial revival of women’s golf in Europe, stepping into the role when the schedule had fallen to just 15 events annually, with only eight left in Europe itself.
She played a key role in securing a strategic partnership with the lucrative LPGA, which gave LET access to its vast resources and team of staff. Since then, LET has secured major commercial partners, including PIF.
The LET board has retained Elevate Talent, the same firm that recently led the search for the new commissioner of the LPGA, with Craig Kessler appointed in May.
