WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Entering his fourth season leading Purdue Women’s Golf, head coach Zack Byrd announced the 2025-26 schedule that features a pair of home tournaments along with trips to six states, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Purdue looks to start the season off with a victory as two-time defending champions of the Boilermaker Classic (Sept. 1-2). The 54-hole stroke play tournament will be contested on the Kampen-Cosler Course at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex.
After the season-opening home tournament, Purdue heads to Michigan to compete in the Wolverine Invitational (Sept. 7-8). Two weeks later, the Boilermakers travel north of the border for the Canadian Collegiate Invitational at Beacon Hall GC in Aurora, Ontario.
Closing out a busy first month of the season, Purdue returns to the Windy City Collegiate Classic (Sept. 29-30). The Boilermakers conclude the fall by going to Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational (Oct. 17-19).
Flipping the calendar to 2026, the Boilermakers serve as hosts of the annual Purdue Puerto Rico Classic at Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico (Feb. 1-3). A regular on the schedule from 2003-20, Byrd brought the tournament back for the third straight season.
Purdue returns to two more tournaments that were on the schedule the past two seasons. The Boilermakers tee it up at the Spartan Sun Coast Invitational in Sarasota, Florida (Feb. 15-16) and the Briar’s Creek Invitational on Johns Island, South Carolina (March 16-17). Nestled in between the two events is the one-day Shootout at Wachesaw at Murrells Inlet, also in Byrd’s home state of South Carolina (March 9).
Ending the month of March, the Boilermakers travel to St. Augustine, Florida to defend their title at the Coach Mo Classic (March 30-31). Serving as the final tune-up before the conference championship, Purdue welcomes teams back to West Lafayette for the Boilermaker Spring Classic. The spring tournament will take place on the other BBGC Pete Dye course, Ackerman-Allen (April 12-13).
After venturing to the east coast the past two years to compete for a conference title, Purdue travels more than 2,000 miles for the 2026 Big Ten Championships. The league tournament is set to take place at Oakmont Country Club in Glendale, California (April 24-26).
Rounding out the schedule, the Boilermakers plan to hear their names called for postseason play in one of six NCAA Regionals (May 11-13) with sights set on a third straight trip to the NCAA Championships in Carlsbad, California (May 22-27).
Samantha Brown and Lauren Timpf are a pair of sophomores that look to lead the team and welcome several newcomers. Brown cracked the lineup in all 14 tournaments a season ago, helping Purdue win a pair of tournament titles. Timpf played in 12 tournaments as a freshman, and her strong play at the NCAA Lubbock Regional was a key factor in the Boilermakers punching their ticket to the NCAA Championships. Michael Headlee also returns experience after competing as an individual in six tournaments throughout her freshman campaign. Transfers Ashley Kim (Arkansas State) and Ella Weber join incoming freshmen Ida Lindqvist (Sundsvall, Sweden) and Luana Valero (Medellin, Colombia) as the four newest Boilermakers.