Field Breakdown: 2026 Wisconsin Women's Championship
MADISON, Wisconsin – The ANNIKA Women's All Pro Tour makes its long-awaited Wisconsin debut this week at the inaugural Wisconsin Women's Championship, July 29–31 at TPC Wisconsin in Madison. It's the first professional women's golf event held in the state since the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic wrapped in 2019, and it arrives at a course with a story of its own. TPC Wisconsin opened in 2023 with PGA Tour veteran Steve Stricker leading the redesign alongside the Tour's Steve Wenzloff.
A field of 124 will play for a share of the $60,000 purse over 54 holes, with $10,000 going to the winner and the top two finishers earning an exemption into the Epson Tour's Smoky Mountain Championship in Knoxville, Tennessee, the following week.
Here's a deeper look at six players worth following this week:
Bobbi Stricker
There's no bigger local storyline this week than Bobbi Stricker. The Madison native grew up around the game; she's the daughter of Steve Stricker, the very man who helped design the course she'll be playing this week, and her path to this tee box has been a long one. Stricker walked on to the University of Wisconsin women's golf team, played all five seasons for the Badgers from 2017 through 2021, and was recognized with a Big Ten Sportsmanship Award before turning pro. She's since carved out a career on the developmental circuit, teeing it up in 19 WAPT events, and has held limited Epson Tour status along the way. Her younger sister, Izzi, currently plays at Wisconsin and was the reigning Wisconsin State Women's Amateur champion. Golf runs deep in this family, and this week gives Bobbi the rare chance to play a WAPT event in her own backyard, on a course with her father's fingerprints all over it.
Tillie Claggett
Few players arrive in Madison with more momentum than Tillie Claggett, and the headline is simple: she just won last week at the Texarkana Children's Charity Open, going -12 for her second WAPT title of the season. It continues a run that started in May, when the Team Canada member and Vanderbilt product won the FCA Women's Championship in just her second start as a professional, and it comes on the heels of a summer that's seen her win on multiple tours. Raised in Calgary after being born in White Rock, B.C., Claggett has quickly become one of the most dangerous names on the WAPT schedule, and she heads into Wisconsin as the reigning champion of the tour's last event, looking to make it back-to-back WAPT wins.
Maisie Filler
Maisie Filler comes into Wisconsin with some of the best form of anyone in the field. Just days ago, the Bloomfield, Connecticut, native and University of Florida alum went out and finished inside the top 10 at the Epson Tour's Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship. Playing on an exemption in just her second professional season, Filler was already making a move through 36 holes, following an opening round with a 3-under 68 to sit just three shots off a crowded lead, and she carried that into the weekend for the top-10 finish, saying after round two that finishing birdie-birdie "put myself right back in it." It capped a broader breakout year that already includes a win at the Taco Bell Natchez Classic on the WAPT back in April. Filler now brings that same form straight back into WAPT competition in Madison.
Julia Misemer
Julia Misemer arrives off one of the hottest stretches of anyone in the field, amateur or professional, and it's showing up right now on the WAPT scoreboard. She tied for 11th at the Michigan Women's Open in Thompsonville and then went one better, finishing runner-up at the Texarkana Children's Charity Open earlier this month. That runner-up finish at Texarkana did more than pad her résumé; it also came with an exemption into the Epson Tour's Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship, and she made the most of the opportunity, where she went on to finish T-39 in her first-ever Epson Tour start. Her current form tracks with what she was doing in college: the Overland Park, Kansas, native just wrapped her senior season at the University of Arizona, where she was the Wildcats' top scorer down the stretch, highlighted by a career-tying low round of 66 at the Westbrook Invitational, and a 13-shot win at the Prairie Invitational earlier this year, the second time in her career she's won that event. A four-year college standout who has twice reached match play at the U.S. Women's Amateur and once teed it up in the U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach, Misemer is riding her best stretch of golf into Madison and looks like a real threat to finally break through for a win.
Milagros Chaves
At 30 years old, Milagros Chaves's story this season is one of persistence finally paying off. The Asunción, Paraguay, native starred at San Diego State, winning the Mountain West Championship as a sophomore and earning two-time Scholar All-American honors, before turning pro in 2019 and grinding through the Epson and developmental ranks ever since. It all came together last month at the Michigan Women's Open at Crystal Mountain, where Chaves made a 12-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win her first professional title in eight years chasing the dream, beating out WAPT money leader Katie Lu and former UCLA golfer Kate Villegas. The win came a big jump up the Callaway Race to Qualifying standings. Chaves will look to keep that momentum going in Wisconsin.
Katie Lu
Speaking of that Michigan playoff, Katie Lu was right there in it, and the 23-year-old former Michigan State star enters this week as the Callaway Race to Qualifying leader. Lu was a First Team All-Big Ten selection and WGCA All-American at Michigan State before graduating in 2025, and after a small hand injury delayed her turn to the pro ranks, she's found her footing on the WAPT since April, calling the stretch one where things have "been going pretty well." That form has already earned her a sponsor exemption into this year's LPGA Meijer Classic earlier this summer. Now sitting atop the tour’s points race, Lu will be looking to protect her lead as players like Claggett keep applying pressure.
Below is a breakdown of the week's field:
The week's field is made up of 124 players from 15 countries.
The breakdown of the players per country in the field: United States (97), Canada (5), Mexico (4), Thailand (3), South Korea (3), Finland (2), Indonesia (2), Argentina (1), China (1), Colombia (1), Czech Republic (1), England (1), India (1), Paraguay (1), Scotland (1).
Travis Humphrey
ANNIKA WAPT Media & Communications
