|
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (born 5 July 2000) is a French professional golfer. She was number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 34 weeks in 2020. Amateur career Roussin represented the French National Team from age 14 and won the 2015 European Young Masters both individually and with her team. She played in two Espirito Santo Trophies (2016 and 2018) and six European Girls' Team Championship and European Ladies' Team Championships, winning silver in 2018. She representied Europe at the 2016 Junior Ryder Cup and was on the winning Vagliano Trophy team in 2019. She won the 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup with the international team. Roussin enrolled at the University of South Carolina in 2019 to play golf with the South Carolina Gamecocks. She had the best season for a freshman in program history and won five times in her first two years. Roussin won the Spanish International Stroke Play and St Rule Trophy in 2016, and the Grand Prix de Valcros in 2017. In 2018 she was runner-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship
The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship is a biennial amateur golf tournament which takes place in alternating years with the World Amateur Team Championships. The competition consists 20 countries represented by teams of four (two men and two women) and takes place at the Whispering Pines Golf Club, located 80 miles outside of Houston in Trinity, Texas. Added in 2013, the winner of the individual men's competition receives a sponsor exemption to the PGA Tour’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. Format Teammates compete in a 72-hole best ball competition in which medals are awarded to the top three places in each of the five following categories; International Team (combined men's and women's teams), men's team, women's team, men's individual, and women's individual. The winners of the men's and women's individual competitions are determined by the player with the most birdies and eagles. Team selection The majority of the participating countries are invited based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aramco Team Series – Singapore
The Aramco Team Series is a professional women's golf competition that is part of the Ladies European Tour (LET), first played in 2020. The inaugural tournament was played as the Saudi Ladies Team International at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) by the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. It was the penultimate LET event of the 2020 season and followed the Aramco Saudi Ladies International. 2021 saw the competition expanded to become the Aramco Team Series, with four tournaments to be held in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain and Saudi Arabia, each with a US$1 million prize fund. Format The tournament is a team competition with a total of 26 teams (36 in 2020 and 2021), each team consisting of three professionals and one amateur. A draft is used to form the teams for the tournament. The team captains are seeded based on the official Women's World Golf Rankings. In a random order, the captains select the first additional player to join the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Ladies European Tour
The 2023 Ladies European Tour is a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world. The tournaments are sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). Changes for 2023 Purses The prize money for the Aramco Saudi Ladies International underwent a significant five-fold increase from US$1m to US$5m, matching the men's Saudi International on the Asian Tour, making the purse the third largest on the LET, offering $750,000 to the tournament champion. Tournaments The Lalla Meryem Cup returned to the schedule after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Schedule The table below shows part of the 2023 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names indicate the career wins on the Ladies European Tour, including that event, and is only shown for members of the tour. ;Key Unofficial events The following team events appear on the schedule, but do not carry ranking points. Order of Merit rankings The top 10 players in the Race to Costa del Sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Simmermacher
Magdalena Simmermacher (born 23 March 1996) is an Argentine professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She was runner-up at the 2020 Ladies Open de France, 2021 Skaftö Open and 2022 South African Women's Open. She represented Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Amateur career Simmermacher was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the third of four siblings, and played golf from age four. She played field hockey for a well-known club in Buenos Aires and represented Argentina at the ADE in South Africa in 2011 until she decided to focus on golf at the age of 13. She won several National Championships between 2012 and 2017, including the Argentine National Ranking in 2013–14. She represented Argentina at three World Amateur Team Championships, four South American Individual Championships, and five 'Copa los Andes', being champions in 2017. Simmermacher played college golf in the United States at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and graduated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linn Grant
Linn Maria Grant (born 20 June 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. As an amateur, she won the 2017 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and was in contention at the 2018 and 2020 U.S. Women's Open. Family and early years Grant is the grand-daughter of James Grant, a Scottish golf professional who emigrated from Inverness in Scotland to Helsingborg in Sweden. The Grant family has had a fair bit of success on Catriona Matthew's home track, North Berwick Golf Club. James won the Scottish Boys Championship on the course, and Linn won the British Amateur Stroke Play Championship there, 49 years later. James died when Linn was 6 years old. Her father John played on the Swedish Golf Tour and has seven wins on the Swedish Senior Tour. Amateur career Grant joined the Swedish National Team in 2016 and represented her country at the European Girls' Team Championship, where Sweden was runner-up 2016 and winner in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Ladies European Tour
The 2021 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). The season was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with many tournaments either being postponed or cancelled. Among the cancellations was the Australian Swing, the tour's season opening. Schedule The table below shows the 2021 schedule. The season featured a month-long European Swing of the LPGA Tour, starting with the Evian Championship in late July. It also saw the introduction of the Aramco Team Series, four tournaments carrying a $1 million total prize fund each held in London, Sotogrande and New York, concluding in Saudi Arabia in November. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names indicate the career wins on the Ladies European Tour, including that event, and is only shown for members of the tour. ;Key Unofficial events The following event appears on the schedule, but does not carry ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese International Ladies Amateur Championship
The Portuguese International Ladies Amateur Championship is an annual amateur golf tournament in Portugal for women. It is an "A" rated tournament in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. The tournament is a qualifying event for the European teams in the Junior Ryder Cup and Junior Solheim Cup The Junior Solheim Cup is a version of the Solheim Cup for girls aged 12 to 18. It was inaugurated in 2002. It is currently officially called the PING Junior Solheim Cup. The Junior Solheim Cup follows a similar format to The Solheim Cup and featu ..., and as such typically features one of the stronger international fields amongst the continental European amateur championships. The 2023 event was the 93nd installment. Winners References {{Reflist External linksFPG - Federação Portuguesa de Golfe Amateur golf tournaments Golf tournaments in Portugal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LPGA Qualifying Tournament
In professional golf, the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season, otherwise known as a "tour card", meaning that they can play in most of the tour's events without having to qualify. They join the leaders on the previous year's money list/order of merit and certain other exempt players as members of the tour. Getting through the qualifying school of an elite tour is very competitive and most professional golfers never achieve it. There can be up to four stages to negotiate, each of them like a regular golf tournament with only a small number of players going on to the next stage. The final qualifying school may be played over up to six rounds, compared with the standard four rounds in a professional golf tournament. However, players who are successful at qualifying school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skaftö Open
The Skaftö Open is a professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour (LET). The tournament is played in Sweden at Skaftö Golf Club in Fiskebäckskil, north of Gothenburg. It was first played on the Swedish Golf Tour in 2018, before being elevated to the LET Access Series in 2019 and to the LET in 2021, the second of three LET events in Sweden that season. The 2020 event was withdrawn from the LET Access Series schedule and played as part of the newly established Nordic Golf Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif .... Winners Source: References External linksLadies European Tour {{DEFAULTSORT:Skafto Open Ladies European Tour events Golf tournaments in Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |