The PIF Saudi International powered by Softbank Investment Advisers, will return on 2-5 February with one of its strongest fields to date. Eleven major champions will take on Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, including the American quintet of Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Bubba Watson, and Phil Mickelson, with a combined 15 major titles between them.
The Aramco Saudi Ladies International presented by Public Investment Fund (PIF), has confirmed the first of its big names set to compete next February. Lydia Ko, the World Number One and 2021 champion, will lead a high-quality field at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club from 16 to 19 February 2023 – with further global superstars set to be announced in the new year.
The $5 million PIF Saudi International powered by Softbank Investment Advisers will have one of the hottest golfing talents on the planet on show in its fifth edition after the reigning British Open champion and PGA Player of the Year Cameron Smith was confirmed for the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club from 2-5 February.
The Aramco Team Series returns to Jeddah in November and two of the world’s best players have confirmed they will be teeing it up at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City on 10-12 November. Charley Hull and Georgia Hall will be appearing at the final leg of golf’s global series and tickets are available for visitors completely free of charge.
First-round co-leaders Nasa Hataoka and Su Oh continued their bogey-free play on Friday at the Honda LPGA Thailand, carding matching 65s on Siam Country Club Pattaya’s Old Course. The duo maintained their spots atop the leaderboard at sixteen-under, tying the tournament’s 36-hole scoring record of 128 set by Jessica Korda in 2018 and matched by Patty Tavatanakit in 2021.
Lydia Ko shot a final day 65 to romp to a five-shot victory at the $1million Aramco Saudi Ladies International presented by PIF. The former world #1 picked-up where she left off a day earlier, birdieing the first as her week’s assault on Royal Greens Golf & Country Club resumed – one that had put her into a commanding four-stroke lead heading into Sunday’s closing round.
Phillip Price and Chris Williams share the lead after the opening round of the Farmfoods European Legends Links Championship hosted by Ian Woosnam. at Trevose Golf & Country Club. Welshman Price went bogey-free to post a three-under-par round of 69 and was joined at the top of the leaderboard by South African Williams, who fired six birdies and three bogeys to kickstart his Legends Tour season.
LPGA Tour rookie Leona Maguire closed with three birdies and an eagle over her final six holes to shoot an eight-under-par 64 in the second round of the Meijer Classic for Simply Give and take a three shot lead into the weekend at Blythefield Country Club.
John Catlin claimed his third victory in just 13 events at the Austrian Golf Open after the American triumphed in a dramatic five-hole play-off with Maximilian Kieffer, following a similarly thrilling final-day battle with the German in regulation play.
Scott Hend and Kalle Samooja moved into a share of the lead at the Magical Kenya Open presented by Johnnie Walker, with a packed leaderboard setting up an exciting weekend. The short and tricky nature of Karen Country Club has resulted in a tightly bunched field after the opening two rounds, but Australian Hend and Finland’s Samooja did enough to edge one shot ahead of the rest on 11 under par.
Saudi Arabia continues to make its presence felt on the global sporting stage by hosting some of the world’s most exciting new events, a trend which continues with today’s announcement of four fully-sanctioned Ladies European Tour (LET) tournaments set to take place in 2021. The Aramco Team Series will be held in New York, London, Singapore and King Abdullah Economic City (near Jeddah), with...
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the, PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
