Royal Mayfair has already claimed five major titles this week. Five major titles combined, and none of them could survive 36 holes at the course hosting the CPKC Women’s Open 2026. Among the wreckage is the news that three major champions are already heading home. Each one leaves with a different story, but all three will be hurting after missing the cut. For them, the weekend is already over, while the fight for the title is only getting started.

Yuka Saso, Minjee Lee, and Hannah Green are three of the biggest names to miss the cut this week. Together, they have six major titles and a resume that most players would dream of having. Experience and major titles proved no shield against Royal Mayfair’s demands.

Yuka Saso

Yuka Saso’s name jumps off the leaderboard, but sadly, not for a good reason. The two-time U.S. Women’s Open champion shot 71-75 to finish 6-over and miss the cut.

What makes it even harder to believe is that this is now her 8th missed cut in just 10 major starts, according to her LPGA records. For a player who has won two of the biggest trophies in women’s golf, that is a shocking number. Saso has already shown she can handle the biggest stages, which makes this run even more painful to watch.

Saso’s 2026 season has been far from easy. She has missed the cut in eight of her 17 starts, including the U.S. Women’s Open, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, and now the CPKC Women’s Open.

Yet a T12 at the AIG Women’s Open last month proves her game is not gone, just unreliable.

The real problem is the inconsistency: 9 missed cuts in 18 starts, yet a T12 finish just weeks ago. That is a worrying pattern for a player who made history so young, becoming the youngest player to win multiple U.S. Women’s Open titles at just 22. For a two-time major champion, this season has simply not been good enough.

Minjee Lee

Minjee Lee’s early exit feels different. She came to Edmonton as last year’s runner-up, so expectations were high. But rounds of 75 and 75 left her at 10-over and sent her packing.

Sadly, this has become a familiar story for Lee in 2026. Her form has been slipping for months, and even she knows it. Before last month’s Women’s British Open, Lee admitted that golf was “humbling” her. Her recent results backed that up. At the Scottish Open, she withdrew after shooting 23-over through two rounds. And that was not even the first warning sign. Back in April, Lee withdrew from the JM Eagle LA Championship while sitting at 3-under and tied for 40th. She was in a strong position to make the weekend, but still she walked away.

Lee clearly has the talent, but something is missing, and it is costing her tournaments. Lee has often talked about using her experience and staying patient, but so far, the results are not showing it. For a 11-time LPGA winner, this pattern is unprecedented.

The CPKC Women’s Open is now just another painful example. Something clearly has not clicked for Lee in 2026, and the worrying part is that there is still no clear sign that this slump is ending.

Hannah Green

Hannah Green‘s story is very different from the other two. Her missed cut feels less like a warning sign and more like a rare bad week. Green shot 73-72 to finish 5-over and miss the cut. That makes the result even more disappointing given her recent form. But when you look at her full season, it is hard to call this a slump.

The Australian has actually been playing some of the best golf of her career. She won the HSBC Women’s World Championship in March, beating Auston Kim by one shot. Just a month later, she won the JM Eagle LA Championship.

This is not even Green’s first missed cut of the year. She also missed the cut at the Aramco Championship in April, shooting 75-77, right in the middle of her hot streak of wins. That result did not slow her down. She bounced back the very next start to win in Los Angeles. Missed cuts, in other words, have not been a sign of trouble for Green in 2026. They have mostly been blips between victories.

Yes, she missed the cut at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in June. But that result was easy to forget given her two wins elsewhere this season and a T7 finish at the Honda LPGA Thailand. This was also Green’s first start after taking some time off following the US Women’s Open. So, some rust could have played a part.

Unlike Saso and Lee, Green has little reason to panic. This looks more like one bad week than a worrying trend. Three major champions, three very different stories. Saso is struggling to find any kind of consistency. Lee is still stuck in a slump that has lasted for months. Green, on the other hand, looks more like a player shaking off some rust after one of the best seasons of her career.

That is what makes these missed cuts so interesting. On the leaderboard, all three names tell the same story. But look a little closer, and they do not. For Saso and Lee, there are real reasons to worry. For Green, this could simply be one bad week. And heading into the rest of 2026, only one of these three stories should truly have fans concerned.