West Caldwell, N.J. (April 21, 2026) – Eighteen of the world’s top 20 LPGA players – together with all 5 main championship winners from final season – comprise the participant commitments for the upcoming Mizuho Americas Open. Match Host and Mizuho Model Ambassador Michelle Wie West will welcome an elite subject to Mountain Ridge Nation Membership in West Caldwell, N.J., Could 4-10 as she prepares to play in the match for the first time as a sponsor exemption.
Led by World No. 1 and defending champion Jeeno Thitikul, World No. 4 Charley Hull, and LPGA Corridor of Famer Lydia Ko, the participant commitments include 41 of the top 50 players in the Rolex Girls’s World Golf Rankings and players who’ve mixed to win 26 main championships.
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The dedication deadline for the 2026 Mizuho Americas Open is Tuesday, April 28. The LPGA’s top players will once more compete alongside 24 elite junior ladies from the American Junior Golf Affiliation (AJGA) as half of the match’s one-of-a-kind format. The AJGA participant subject shall be introduced quickly.
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“I’m excited to welcome such an incredible group of achieved LPGA stars to compete on this yr’s Mizuho Americas Open,” Wie West stated. “To have so many of the world’s top-ranked players and main championship winners competing on this occasion actually speaks to how the Mizuho Americas Open has established itself as a top occasion on the LPGA Tour in simply its fourth yr. I stay up for competing towards all these superb players in two weeks.”
Notable players who’ve dedicated to the subject include:
- Michelle Wie West (USA)
- Match Host and Mizuho Model Ambassador
- 5-time LPGA winner
- 2014 U.S. Girls’s Open winner
- World No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul (Thailand)
- Defending champion of the Mizuho Americas Open
- 2025 Rolex Participant of the Yr and Vare Trophy winner
- Eight-time LPGA winner
- World No. 4 Charley Hull (England)
- World No. 5 (*18*) (Australia)
- World No. 6 Miyu Yamashita (Japan)
- 2025 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Yr
- 2025 AIG Girls’s Open winner
- World No. 7 Minjee Lee (Australia)
- Three-time main championship winner (together with 2025 KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship) and 11-time LPGA winner
- World No. 8 Lydia Ko (New Zealand)
- Three-time main championship winner and 23-time LPGA winner
- LPGA Corridor of Famer
- World No. 9 Sei Young Kim (England)
- 13-time LPGA winner, 2020 KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship winner
- World No. 10 Lottie Woad (England)
- World No. 11 Ruoning Yin (China)
- 2025 KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship winner and five-time LPGA winner
- World No. 12 Lauren Coughlin (USA)
- World No. 13 Haeran Ryu (Korea)
- World No. 14 Mao Saigo (Japan)
- 2025 Chevron Championship winner
- World No. 15 Nasa Hataoka (Japan)
- World No. 16 Angel Yin (USA)
- World No. 17 (*20*) (Korea)
- World No. 18 Akie Iwai (Japan)
- World No. 19 Chizzy Iwai (Japan)
- World No. 20 Rio Takeda (Japan)
- World No. 34 Ayaka Furue (Japan)
- Mizuho Model Ambassador
- Two-time LPGA winner, together with the 2024 Amundi Evian Championship
- Rose Zhang
- Mizuho Model Ambassador
- Two-time LPGA winner, together with the 2023 Mizuho Americas Open
- Yana Wilson (USA)
- Mizuho Model Ambassador
- 2023 American Junior Golf Affiliation (AJGA) Participant of the Yr; winner of the AJGA portion of the 2023 Mizuho Americas Open
- LPGA rookie
- Grace Kim (Australia)
- 2025 Amundi Evian Championship winner
- Maja Stark (Sweden)
- 2025 U.S. Girls’s Open winner
- Lilia Vu (USA)
- Two-time main championship winner and five-time LPGA winner
- Yuka Saso (Japan)
- Two-time main championship winner
- Anna Nordqvist (Sweden)
- Two-time main championship winner and nine-time LPGA winner
Tickets can be found at MizuhoAmericasOpen.com. Basic admission tickets begin at $35 for Thursday’s first spherical, $40 for Friday’s second spherical, and $45 every day for Saturday and Sunday. Good-any-one-day tickets (legitimate any in the future Thursday-Sunday) are $50, and weekly common admission badges (legitimate all 4 rounds) are $130. For an elevated expertise, Backyard State Terrace every day tickets are $130. Veterans, first responders, energetic army and Juniors 17 and underneath obtain free common admission.
Final yr, Mizuho Americas introduced an extension of its title sponsorship that can see the Mizuho Americas Open proceed via 2030. The occasion shall be held at Mountain Ridge Nation Membership for the subsequent two years earlier than returning to Liberty Nationwide Golf Membership in 2028.
The primary three rounds of the Mizuho Americas Open shall be featured on Golf Channel, and the ultimate spherical shall be televised on CBS. Extra info is offered at MizuhoAmericasOpen.com. For the newest match information, comply with @MizuhoLPGA on X, Instagram and Facebook.
About the Mizuho Americas Open
The Mizuho Americas Open is a purpose-driven match on the LPGA Tour. As title sponsor, Mizuho Americas created and drove the imaginative and prescient for a particular and premium occasion that celebrates girls and advances the subsequent era, with a charitable concentrate on offering management and life expertise to younger ladies from low-income communities. With LPGA icon Michelle Wie West as celeb host, the match options an elevated purse and a novel junior element the place the AJGA’s stars of tomorrow compete alongside the finest girls golfers in the world.
About Mizuho Americas
Mizuho Americas is the U.S.-based enterprise of Mizuho Monetary Group, Inc., which is one of the largest monetary establishments in the world as measured by whole property of ~$2 trillion as of December 31, 2025. Mizuho’s 65,000 workers worldwide supply complete monetary companies to purchasers in 36 international locations and 850 places of work all through the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.
Mizuho Americas is a number one Company and Funding Financial institution (CIB) that gives a full spectrum of client-driven options throughout strategic advisory, capital markets, company banking, and stuck revenue and equities gross sales & buying and selling to company, authorities, and institutional purchasers in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Via its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho enhanced its M&A, restructuring, and personal capital advisory capabilities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs roughly 4,000 professionals. For extra info go to www.mizuhoamericas.com.
About the LPGA
The LPGA is the world’s main skilled golf group for girls, with a aim to alter the face of golf by making the sport extra accessible and inclusive. Created in 1950 by 13 Founders, the Affiliation celebrates a various and storied historical past. The LPGA Tour competes throughout the globe, reaching tv audiences in additional than 220 international locations. The Epson Tour, the LPGA’s official qualifying tour, persistently produces a pipeline of expertise prepared for the world stage. The LPGA additionally holds a joint-venture collaboration with the Women European Tour (LET), rising enjoying alternatives for feminine golfers in Europe. Throughout the Excursions, the LPGA represents players in additional than 60 international locations. Moreover, the LPGA Basis has empowered and supported women and girls since 1991, most notably via LPGA*USGA Women Golf, the solely nationwide program of its variety, which yearly engages with practically 100,000 ladies. The LPGA Novice Golf Affiliation and LPGA Girls’s Community present digital and in-person connections to feminine golfers round the world, whereas LPGA Professionals are educators, enterprise leaders and sport changers devoted to rising the sport of golf for everybody.
Comply with the LPGA on its U.S. tv dwelling, Golf Channel, on-line at www.LPGA.com and on its cell apps. Be a part of the social dialog on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
About Mountain Ridge Nation Membership
Based in 1912, Mountain Ridge Nation Membership has lengthy been thought-about a historic venue. Initially established in West Orange, N.J., the Membership moved to its present website in West Caldwell, situated simply 20 miles from New York Metropolis, in 1929 when it commissioned famed golf course architect Donald Ross to design a championship 18-hole course throughout 282 rolling acres. Usually described as one of the NY Metropolis Metropolitan Space’s “hidden gems,” the course has all the time been seen as a basic Donald Ross design. The course was thought-about a tough check when it opened in 1931, and little has modified in the 90-plus years since. The course is thought for its distinctly Ross options, particularly its difficult greens. Ross designed every nine-hole loop to wind right down to the decrease half of the property and conclude with a protracted assent again to the iconic fieldstone clubhouse, designed by famend architect Clifford C. Wendehack. The venue has hosted many championships, together with the 2012 USGA Senior Novice Championship and the 2021 LPGA Cognizant Founders Cup. Over its century-long historical past, Mountain Ridge has been dwelling to many outstanding members and continues its dedication to excellence, neighborhood, philanthropy and the sport of golf.
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