After a decade-long hiatus the Women’s Australian Open returns to the Ladies European Tour (LET) schedule this week for the third event of the circuit’s 2026 swing Down Under.
Kooyonga Golf Club in Adelaide is on hosting duties for the time since 2018 with the tournament taking place between March 12-15. The par-72 sandbelt track is one of Australia’s top courses and has previously staged five men’s Australian Opens.
A field of 144 players will be teeing up in the tournament’s 35th edition – a number which includes three Major champions, 27 LET winners and 31 Australians.
The four highest ranked Aussies in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings lead the field with Minjee Lee, Hannah Green, Grace Kim and Stephanie Kyriacou all teeing up at their home Open. The quartet are all bidding to become the first Australian in over decade to win the famous Patricia Bridges Bowl (Karrie Webb was the last in 2014).
Joining the Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown champions within a stacked field is last week’s winner, Kelsey Bennett, now leading the 2026 LET Order of Merit, as well as the player who won last year’s season-long race, Shannon Tan from Singapore.
Another winner from this year’s Australian swing, Agathe Laisne from France, also tees up two weeks on from winning the Ford Women’s NSW Open. She is joined by 2025 LET winners Casandra Alexander, Anna Huang, Cara Gainer, Darcey Harry, Alice Hewson, Sára Kousková and Laura Fuenfstueck.
Elsewhere, 14 rookies will be taking to the prestigious fairways at Kooyonga Golf Club including Caley McGinty who finished T2 at the Australian Women’s Classic last week. The Englishwoman also finished T5 on her full LET debut at the Ford Women’s NSW Open a fortnight ago and leads the Rookie of the Year standings.
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The Women’s Australian Open marks the fourth stop on the LET’s 2026 global schedule and the third of four co-sanctioned events with the WPGA Tour of Australasia this month.
A lucrative purse of A$1,700,000 is on offer with the winner taking home A$250,000 on Sunday.
Fans around the world can watch all four rounds of the Women’s Australian Open via their national broadcaster and on the LET website/YouTube channel. Full broadcast details to follow.
Following the conclusion of the tournament, the LET and WPGA of Australasia head to the Gold Coast for the Australian WPGA Championship.
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