Although winner’s status and LET points are not awarded for a one-round event, the records will show Australia’s Jess Whitting, Denmark’s Nicole Broch Estrup and Taipei’s Peiying Tsai as joint winners after their rounds of six-under 66 on Saturday.
The win was Uribe’s first since 2011, with the 14-year LPGA veteran already calling this year her last on tour. Her final goal, however, is to make the Olympics, and with this victory, she believes she’s all but assured herself a plane ticket to Paris.
Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, welcomes a strong field this Easter weekend as the Ladies European Tour (LET) and WPGA Tour of Australasia co-sanction the Women’s NSW Open, where a prize purse of $500,000 is on offer in addition to the Jan Stephenson Trophy.
On the video below you can hear the commentator mention that the area is part of a wildlife sanctuary designed to save animals that were rescued for various different reasons. These giraffes are named Char and Valentine.
In a memo sent to LPGA members, first reported by Golfweek and a copy of which has been obtained by Golf Digest, LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan explained that close to the meeting the LET received notice from Golf Saudi asking for more information regarding the merger’s terms.
A potentially historic vote on the possible merger of the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour did not take place as expected overnight, Australian time.
Multiple sources who attended the meeting tell Golf Digest that the discussion did not include many specifics regarding what a merger might look like. Rather, LPGA officials spoke more broadly about TV viewership goals, purse growth and how a merger could grow women’s golf overall.
Multiple industry sources outlined four scenarios regarding Golf Saudi’s ambitions with women’s pro golf: continue/grow its current Aramco series within the LET framework; buy the LET; buy the LPGA; build its own LIV-style circuit.
Australia has three strong chances of another Major victory with Hannah Green, Minjee Lee and Stephanie Kyriacou are all inside the top 10 heading into the weekend of the AIG Women’s Open at Muirfield.
Australian Golf Digest
