The Ladies European Tour is coming to a close with a penultimate important event, the Aramco Team Series Presented by PIF Riyadh, which will be held from October 31 to November 2 on the Riyadh Golf Club course in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the participation, among the 84 competitors, of Virginia Elena Carta and Alessandra Fanali.
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It is the fifth and final event branded Aramco where the individual competition will be competed over a distance of 54 holes and the team competition (team of three proettes and an amateur) over the first 36. The total prize money is one million dollars, 500,000 for each tournament.
Aramco also sponsors another event, the Aramco Saudi Ladies International, which took place earlier this season with a prize pool of five million dollars and was won by Patty Tavatanakit of Thailand, who will be present at the event along with other top pros who play on the LPGA Tour, including the English Charley Hull (No. 7 on the LET order of merit) and Georgia Hall and the Spaniard Carlota Ciganda.
In a quality field there are seven other top ten players who, of course, will be among the favorites together with the aforementioned: Chiara Tamburlini, number 1, three titles this year, just named Rookie The Year and the first Swiss to obtain the recognition, the Belgian Manon De Roey (no. 2), the French Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (no. 3), the English Bronte Law (no. 4) and Alice Hewson (no. 6), the Singaporean Shannon Tan (no. 5) and the Australian Kirsten Rudgeley (no. 10).
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Also to watch is the other Englishwoman Liz Young, who won in India, the German Helen Briem, revelation of the year with four titles on the LET Access (three as an amateur) and one on the LET, the New Zealander Momoka Kobori, the Indian Diksha Dagar, the Dutch Anne Van Dam, the Spanish Marta Martin and Ana Pelaez Trivino, the Swedish Johanna Gustavsson and the Czech Sara Kouskova.
Virginia Elena Carta is in good form, as evidenced by the four placings in the top seven in the last five appearances, while Alessandra Fanali returns after a rest round following the cut suffered in Taiwan, but preceded by a fifth place (Irish Open) and two good performances.
