The K Club to host Women's Irish Open in 2026

SPECIAL K: The Women’s Irish Open is set to move across Kildare to The K Club, and also from early July to late August, in 2016. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile.

Next year’s KPMG Women’s Irish Open is set to move across Kildare to The K Club, and also from early July to late August, organisers of the Ladies European Tour announced on Friday.

The move to the club Leona Maguire represents comes after a successful two-year stand at Carton House, and before that a similar spell at Co. Clare’s Dromoland Castle following the event’s return to the LET schedule in 2022 after a 10-year hiatus.

The K Club is set to host this year’s Amgen Irish Open on the men’s DP World Tour this September, playing the Palmer North Course which staged the 2006 Ryder Cup and Rory McIlroy’s 2016 victory in his national Open, while the KPMG Women’s Irish Open will be played on the property’s Palmer South Course, which hosted three European Opens following its opening in 2003.

Significantly, the move to August 27-30, 2026 places the LET’s Ireland stop just two weeks out from next year’s Solheim Cup, when Europe plays host to the USA in the Netherlands from September 7-13.

The K Club director MJ Fetherston said: “We are delighted to announce the KPMG Women's Irish Open is coming to The K Club in 2026. This is a tournament we want to support and elevate.

“There is so much brilliant talent in women's golf. We have been supporting Leona Maguire for the past few years and this is a terrific development on that.

"The Palmer South course has been given a lot of love and energy over the past few years. We are excited to bring tournament golf back to this challenging course. Our family and the whole team at the resort want to make this the best Women’s Irish Open yet.”