CHASKA, Minnesota – The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is unique among major championships, bringing together LPGA and PGA Teaching Professionals alongside the game’s top competitors. The 2026 Corebridge Financial Team is made up of eight LPGA Professionals and PGA of America Members who secured their places in the field through exceptional play across the 2025 and 2026 seasons.

While they will compete against the best players in the world this week, their impact extends far beyond tournament golf. Meet the eight professionals who are helping grow the game every day through their work as teachers, mentors, and leaders at facilities across the country.

Meet those 8 Pros and learn more about how they are growing the game of golf via the contributions they make to their respective facilities daily.

Sandra Changkija

Hometown: Daytona Beach, Fla.

LPGA Section: Southeast

PGA Section: North Florida

Facility: Sugar Mill Country Club, New Smyrna Beach, Fla.

Sandra Changkija is an assistant golf professional at Sugar Mill Country Club in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Her performance at the 2025 LPGA Professionals Championship earned her a spot in her sixth consecutive KPMG Women’s PGA Championship as an LPGA Professional, as Changkija qualified for this major championship in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Just this past year, she became the first woman to win the Assistant PGA Professional Championship and was named the 2025 Women’s PGA Professional Player of the Year. She is a three-time winner of the PGA Women’s Stroke Play Championship (2021-2023) and the North Florida PGA Section Championship (2022-2024). Changkija is a former LPGA Tour member, first joining the organization in 2012, but she has not competed on Tour since the 2019 season.

Joanna Coe

Hometown: Haverford, Pa.

PGA Section: Philadelphia

Facility: Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, Pa.

Joanna Coe is the Director of Instruction at the famous Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania and is teeing it up in her seventh KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in 2026. Her top-5 finish at the 2026 Women’s PGA Stroke Play earned her the eighth spot to round out the 2026 Corebridge Team.

Coe is a six-time Mid-Atlantic PGA Section Women’s Player of the Year, was honored as the 2019 Women’s PGA Professional Player of the Year, has won the Middle-Atlantic PGA Women’s Championship twice and has been a member of three victorious U.S. Women’s PGA Cup Teams. She is a former member of the Epson Tour, the Official Qualifying Tour of the LPGA.

Nicole Felce

Hometown: Clearwater, Fla.

LPGA Section: Southeast

PGA Section: North Florida

Facility: Countryside Country Club, Clearwater, Fla.

Nicole Felce currently works as an assistant professional at Countryside Country Club in Clearwater, Fla., and earned her spot in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship field because of her fourth-place finish at the 2025 LPGA Professionals Championship. This is her second year competing in the major event, making her debut just last year at PGA Frisco.

Felce turned professional in the fall of 2022 at just 18 years old and went on to earn partial status on the Epson Tour for the 2023 season. In May of 2025, she completed all levels of the LPGA Teaching Education Program to become an LPGA Class A Member.

Loretta Giovannettone

Hometown: Jupiter, Fla.

PGA Section: South Florida PGA

Facility: Loblolly Golf Club, Hobe Sound, Fla.

Loretta Giovannettone currently works as PGA Teaching Professional at Loblolly Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla., and earned her spot in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship field after securing the final qualifying spot at the 2025 LPGA Professionals Championship.

This is her second year competing in the major championship after making her debut appearance in 2023 at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J. She won the 2021 South Florida PGA Women’s Section Championship at Quail Ridge in Boyton Beach, Fla.

Allie Knight

Hometown: Knoxville, Tenn.

LPGA Section: Midwest

PGA Section: Tennessee

Facility: Fairways and Greens Golf Center, Knoxville, Tenn.

Allie Knight is a teaching professional in Knoxville, Tenn., at the Fairways and Greens Golf Center and earned her spot in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship field because of her top-5 finish at the 2025 LPGA Professionals National Championship. She has competed in the last five editions of this major championship from 2021-2025.

Just this year, she took home her first ever PGA Women’s Stroke Play Championship title. Knight finished runner-up in the 2024 Tennessee Women’s State Open, the 2021 LPGA Professionals Championship and the 2021 Tennessee PGA Players Championship. She made her Epson Tour debut in 2016, and most recently teed it up on the Official Qualifying Tour of the LPGA in 2023.

Kim Paez

Hometown: Frisco, Texas

PGA Section: Northern Texas PGA

Facility: PING Golf

Kim Paez won her first LPGA Professionals Championship title in 2025, defeating 2-time defending champion Allie White in a playoff. Her performance earned her a spot in the field at the 2026 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club. This will be the University of California, Irvine alumna’s second playing in the major championship after she made her debut in this major championship in 2024 at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash.

Paez currently serves as the PGA Player Development Manager for PING in Frisco, Texas. She is the first woman to ever win the Southwest PGA Professional Championship in 2023 and became the fourth woman overall to win the PGA Section Championship, joining fellow Corebridge Team member Sandra Changkija (2022). She received a sponsor exemption to play in the 2024 Ford Championship presented by KCC.

Natalie Vivaldi

Hometown: Oceanside, Calif.

PGA Section: Southern California

Facility: Goat Hill Park, Oceanside, Calif.

Natalie Vivaldi is the Director of Instruction at Goat Hill Park in Oceanside, Calif. and earned her spot in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship field because of her third-place finish at the 2025 LPGA Professionals Championship. This is her second year competing in the major championship, making her debut in 2025 at PGA Frisco.

Vivaldi earned Southern California PGA Women’s Player of the Year honors in 2024 and won the Southern California PGA Women’s Match Play Championship in 2023. She was recognized with the TaylorMade National Rising Star Award in 2023. Vivaldi has played in several Epson Tour events, last doing at the 2020 FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship.

Allie White

Hometown: Lancaster, Ohio

LPGA Section: Midwest

PGA Section: Southern Ohio

Facility: Lancaster Golf Club, Lancaster, Ohio

Allie White came just short of a three-peat at the 2025 LPGA Professionals Championship, earning her second-place finish in a two-way play off against Paez. Her finish at the 2025 LPGA Professionals Championship earned her a spot in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship field. This will be her third consecutive playing in the major championship, following her debut in 2024 at Sahalee Country Club.

White is the Director of Golf at Lancaster Golf Club in her home state, having turned her focus to her membership with the LPGA Professionals after wrapping up her career on the Epson Tour following the 2022 season. The Ohio native has also played in several LPGA Tour events, including the 2009 and 2021 U.S. Women’s Open, and most recently doing so at the 2024 Dana Open at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, where she ultimately made the cut and finished T71.

2026 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship: Meet the LPGA and PGA Professionals Competing at Hazeltine National Golf Club

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