Kroger Queen City Championship pres by P&G

The 2026 Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G takes place at Maketewah Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio from May 14 to 17, in the Eastern Daylight Time zone (UTC-4). The tournament moved to Maketewah and shifted from its previous September slot to a spring date for the 2026 season.

Maketewah's history reaches back to 1897 when it began as the Avondale Athletic Club near what is now Xavier University. The club was reincorporated in 1910 by a group that included Barney Kroger and William Procter, two names that still define Cincinnati commerce and now both appear in the tournament's title sponsorship. Donald Ross designed the course in 1919, coinciding with his Ohio work preparing Inverness for the 1920 U.S. Open. The Ross layout has been in play for over a century, and a 2022 restoration by Brian Silva reestablished Golden Age-style bunkering that cuts into fairways and flanks greens, demanding the kind of tactical play Ross originally intended.

The move from TPC River's Bend, which hosted the event in 2024 and 2025, to Maketewah gives the Queen City Championship a venue with genuine architectural pedigree. The Ross greens are small by modern standards, crowned and tilted into the natural contours of the Cincinnati hillside. The course rewards shot-shaping and imagination over pure distance, qualities that suit the LPGA Tour's best ball-strikers.

Cincinnati in mid-May delivers pleasant spring conditions with temperatures around 22-26 degrees Celsius, though the Ohio River valley can produce humid afternoons and the occasional thunderstorm. The tree-lined Ross routing provides shelter from wind but narrows driving corridors, making accuracy off the tee the primary skill.

The Kroger and P&G sponsorship reflects Cincinnati's corporate identity. Kroger is headquartered in the city, and Procter & Gamble has been based there since 1837. The tournament draws strong local support and gallery attendance from a metro area of two million that treats the event as a civic occasion.

For European viewers, EDT timing places Sunday's finish in the evening. When the final group tees off around 13:00 EDT, it is 18:00 in London, 19:00 in Paris and Berlin. For viewers in East Asia, 13:00 EDT is 02:00 Monday morning in Tokyo. For fans on the US West Coast, the 13:00 EDT start is 10:00 PDT.

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