The fifth tournament in this year’s Aramco Team Series takes place at Ferry Point as the unique LET event continues.
The Series features 26 teams of four competing over the first two days, with each team comprising three professionals and one amateur. Then, in the final round of the 54 hole contest, it becomes an individual battle for the title. For the team part of the tournament, each captain chooses one player in a pre-tournament draft, with another pro selected randomly. An amateur player then completes each team. As well as significant prize money, the competition also offers Rolex Rankings and Solheim Cup ranking points, and is part of the Race to Costa del Sol Official Rankings.
Not surprisingly, with the stakes so high the Series has attracted strong fields, and that’s no different this week, with the likes of Amundi Evian Championship winner Brooke Henderson, who is making her Aramco Team Series debut, 2014 Chevron Championship winner Lexi Thompson and three-time Major winner Anna Nordqvist appearing.
However, it’s another two high-profile players who are likely to grab most of the early attention – the Korda sisters, with the Americans enjoying plenty of success in the previous tournament at Sotogrande in Spain. Jessica led her team to victory in the team competition, as they finished one shot ahead of Pauline Roussin’s team. Then, her younger sister, World No.4 Nelly, overturned a seven-shot deficit to win the individual competition, finishing three shots ahead of Spaniard Ana Pelaez Trivino.
That was almost a repeat of last year’s outcome in New York. Back then, Jessica once again led her team to victory, but her sister could only finish runner-up in the individual event behind Charley Hull. Hull returns this year hoping for a repeat of that success as she aims to build on her victory in the Ascendant LPGA earlier in the month. World No.19 Leona Maguire is another hoping to perform well after she won her first LPGA Tour event earlier this year in the LPGA Drive On Championship in Florida.
Players are competing for a purse of $1m, with…
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