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Kai Trump will make her LPGA debut Thursday at The Annika at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida.
The high school senior officially committed to the University of Miami last week, and her big week will continue when she starts at 12:32 PM ET.
Trump will tee off on the penultimate tee time of the day, starting on hole 10 with Hinako Shibuno and Olivia Cowan. She will be two groups behind three-time and reigning winner Nelly Korda and three behind Charley Hull. Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang will also compete.
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Kai Trump will make her LPGA debut this week as an amateur at The Annika at Pelican Golf Club. (Accelerator)
The 18-year-old Trump was a sponsor exemption granted to new golfers to showcase their talents. She accepted the invitation “in a heartbeat and just practiced a lot ever since.”
“It’s an honor,” she told reporters earlier this week. “I want to thank the LPGA and the Doyle family for the opportunity. I’m looking forward to it. It’s really cool to say I’m playing my first LPGA event and I’m only a senior in high school.
“I’m going to learn a lot no matter what happens,” she added. “I just want to go out there and have fun. Competing with the best players is curating … inside the ropes playing with them, learning what kind of shots they hit and what they do on the court. I’m just looking forward to playing with the best.”
Kai Trump tees off during the final round of the Medalist Tour tournament at Lost City Golf Club on July 17, 2025 in Atlantis, Fla. (Greg Lovett/Palm Beach Post/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
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Trump admitted that she will be “nervous” but “definitely a nervous tension.”
Trump has gained a following on social media, mostly through YouTube, and recently posted a video of herself playing with her grandfather at the Trump National Golf Club in Washington, DC, and the two attended the Ryder Cup.
“I just don’t look at it like he’s president. I look at it like he’s my grandfather. We go out there and play golf,” Kai said in a recent interview with Pakinomist Digital. “We play golf all the time. It’s nothing new.”
President Donald Trump watches his grandson, Kai Trump, play golf at Trump National Doral Miami on Oct. 27, 2022, in Miami, Fla., one day ahead of the 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Miami. (Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images)
In that interview, Trump reiterated his goal of going pro.
“I’m going to try to do it and give it my best shot.”
