Leaving Las Vegas: LPGA’s T-Mobile Match Play Dropped from 2026 Schedule
The LPGA’s T-Mobile Match Play event in Las Vegas will not return in 2026, leaving a gap in the spring schedule.
Commissioner Craig Kessler unveiled an early look at the 2026 tour calendar during his first player meeting at the FM Championship. Where the Shadow Creek match play event typically appeared, the schedule now simply lists a “West Coast prospect.”
The tournament debuted in 2021 as the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play at Shadow Creek and later became the T-Mobile Match Play Presented by MGM in 2024. After just two years under the T-Mobile banner, the event has been removed.
Despite the cancellation, Kessler remains hopeful that T-Mobile will continue its partnership with the LPGA in other ways. T-Mobile executives confirmed their ongoing support of women’s golf, highlighting partnerships with top players like Nelly Korda and Brooke Henderson, as well as their involvement with the KPMG Women’s Championship.
The Vegas match play was the LPGA’s first since 2017, reviving a format seen in earlier events like the Sybase LPGA Match Play and the HSBC Women’s World Match Play. Nelly Korda won the 2024 edition, while Madelene Sagstrom captured the title in 2025.
This change mirrors the PGA Tour, which recently ended its own match play event and dropped Las Vegas from its schedule for the first time in over 40 years.
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