WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark will not hit the links next month during the LPGA\u2019s penultimate event of 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clark made an appearance at The Annika at Pelican Golf Club for the pro-am in 2024 and 2025, turning the event into a must-watch event. However, organizers for the event said that she would not partake in this year\u2019s tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is not going to be playing this year,\u201d Mike Nichols, chief of sponsorship strategy and activation for Group 1001, told Golfweek on Thursday. \u201cWe have enjoyed the energy she has brought to the tournament the last two years and look forward to having her back in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professional basketball player Caitlin Clark hits from the 14th tee prior to The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican 2025 at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 12, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark putts on the 18th green during the Pro-Am for The Annika driven by Gainbridge at the Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Annika will take place from Nov. 12-15 at the Belleair, Florida, golf course this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clark\u2019s presence drew plenty of attention to the tournament over the past two years, which even led The Golf Channel to produce a three-hour program around the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From left, Indiana Fever players Sophie Cunningham, Caitlin Clark and Lexi Hull pose for a group photo on the first tee during the Pro Am for The Annika driven by Cambridge at Pelican at the Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, Nov. 12, 2025. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Last year, Fever teammates Sophie Cunningham and Lexie Hull joined Clark on the course as celebrity caddies, adding even more public interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clark also teamed up with golf star Nelly Korda during the event last year, and the two have developed a bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it just shows how powerful supporting one another can truly be,\u201d Clark had said at last year\u2019s event. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a big advocate of that and supporting women\u2019s sports. Always been a big fan, whether it\u2019s golf or soccer or volleyball, whatever it is. So it\u2019s really fun to see her do her craft up close and how good she is and getting to play with her last year; and I played a few other rounds with her.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe just makes the game of golf look really easy. You\u2019re almost like, how?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark will not hit the links next month during the LPGA\u2019s penultimate event of 2026.\u00a0…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_volume":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6872,786,787,111,121,6871],"class_list":["post-11136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-florida","tag-florida-golf","tag-lpga","tag-sports","tag-wnba","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@fogolf\/117368838181858360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}