Hospitality and corporate opportunities available at Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club

MENLO PARK, Calif. (Nov. 19, 2025) – Bay Area golf fans, get ready for the return of the world’s best golfers! On March 19-22, 2026, the LPGA Tour will head to Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club for the 2026 Fortinet Founders Cup, the first full-field event of the season and the start of a new chapter in the long history of women’s golf in Northern California.

This will be the 15th edition of the Fortinet Founders Cup, an event that celebrates the 13 Founding Members of the LPGA, who created the Association in 1950. Previously played at venues across Arizona, Florida and New Jersey, the event routinely showcases the top talent of the LPGA. Past winners include major champions Jin Young Ko, Minjee Lee, Stacy Lewis and Anna Nordqvist. The 2025 playing saw American Yealimi Noh become a Rolex First-Time Winner after closing out her final round with a four-stroke lead over three-time Founders Cup champion Ko, while Rose Zhang, who attends Stanford University just over a mile from Sharon Heights, won the 2024 Founders Cup for her second professional victory.

Tickets are available for purchase at SeatGeek.com. Daily tickets start at $64 for General Admission, with weekly passes starting at $139. Pioneer Pavilion hospitality tickets are $299 for daily admission and $899 for weekly access. The Pioneer Pavilion provides premium access to an open-air structure between the 14th and 16th greens and features shared food and beverage services, including bar options, as well as complimentary off-site parking.

Juniors aged 17 and under will receive complimentary admission with the purchase of an adult ticket. For more information on junior tickets, visit SeatGeek.com. Additionally, volunteer opportunities are available for fans who want to participate in the week’s festivities. Click here for more information.

Group hospitality and sponsorship opportunities for the 2026 Fortinet Founders Cup are available by contacting Tommy Austin at tommy.austin@lpga.com.

The LPGA’s return to Northern California marks a longstanding tradition of women’s golf in the area. Previously, the Bay Area hosted the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open, played at The Olympic Club, and the 2016 U.S. Women’s Open, played at CordeValle, as well as the 2023 Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown, played at TPC Harding Park. The last non-major, standard-eligibility LPGA Tour event to be held in Northern California was the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, played from 2018 through 2022 at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City.

As the title sponsor of the Fortinet Founders Cup, Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, was founded 25 years ago in Silicon Valley. With the biggest overall cybersecurity patent portfolio in the industry, as well as the largest Artificial Intelligence (AI) patent portfolio, Fortinet innovates security organically from the ground up, embedding and innovating protection into the very fabric of networking. From custom-built ASICs and its FortiOS operating system, to being the only vendor delivering the New-Generation SASE Firewall, to organically building a global cloud infrastructure, advanced AI and industry-leading threat intelligence, Fortinet provides seamless performance and security at scale. With more than 890,000 lifetime customers, Fortinet continues to be among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated cybersecurity companies in the world.

Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club has been an active part of the Menlo Park community for more than 60 years. Originally designed in 1962 by renowned architect Jack Fleming (a protégé of Alister MacKenzie), the course was adjusted by several architects through the years prior to a major renovation conducted in 2023. The renovation was carried out by architect Todd Eckenrode and Origins Golf Design and features an improved layout and enhanced commitment to sustainability. Since reopening in 2024, the course has garnered multiple renovation-of-the-year awards. The design intentionally showcases the beauty of the region with natural meadows, seasonal creeks and fairways lined with native California oak and sycamore trees.

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