This week the Ladies European Tour (LET) is in Rabat, Morocco for the 29th staging of the Lalla Meryem Cup.
The 54-hole tournament takes place between 21-23 May on the Blue Course at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam. It marks the 11th stop of the 2026 LET season with a purse of €450,000 on offer in North Africa.
As with the past three editions, the 2026 Lalla Meryem Cup will run parallel with the Hassan II Golf Trophy on the PGA Tour Champions which takes place over on the Red Course.
England’s Cara Gainer was victorious last time out defeating India’s Diksha Dagar in a playoff to claim her long-awaited first LET win. Gainer is back in Morocco to defend her title with 2017 winner Klara Davidson Spilkova from the Czech Republic also featuring.
The pair are part of a 132-player field in Rabat which features 36 nationalities and 37 LET winners.
This includes 2025 Order of Merit winner Shannon Tan from Singapore, as well South Africa’s Casandra Alexander who leads this year’s season-long race following a fifth runner-up finish of the season at last week’s Amundi German Masters. Alexander is the highest ranked player in the field sitting 39th in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings.
The winner of last week’s event, Germany’s Leonie Harm, also tees up following her dramatic home win in Hamburg on Sunday. England’s Esme Hamilton, France’s Agathe Laisne and Australia’s Kelsey Bennett also feature having picked up victories this season.
On the home front, Maha Haddioui leads the Moroccan charge as her nation’s highest ranked player. Haddioui, currently 40th on the LET Order of Merit, is joined by six other Moroccans who are all invites at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam. This includes amateur Sofia Cherif Essakali who in 2023 made the cut in this event aged just 13-years-old. The full field can be found here.
The par-73 Blue Course at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam was designed by Robert Trent Jones and is located fifteen minutes from the centre of Rabat. It features fast, undulating greens and narrow fairways.
Entering its 29th edition, the Lalla Meryem Cup has a rich history with past champions including Dame Laura Davies (2008), Charley Hull (2014), Gwladys Nocera (2007, 2015), Maja Stark (2023) and Bronte Law (2024).
Play gets underway on Thursday morning at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam. Keep up to date with all the action throughout on our socials – @LETgolf on Instagram, TikTok and X, and Ladies European Tour on YouTube and Facebook – #AmundiGermanMasters.
