with a total prize of us$1 million, the world’s first women’s golf professional tour team series shenzhen is about to begin
2024-10-03
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as the world's first women's golf professional tour team series, the saudi aramco team series will hold its shenzhen leg at the mission hills world cup stadium in shenzhen from october 4th to 6th. on october 2nd and 3rd, paris olympic games women’s golf bronze medalist lin xiyu (currently ranked 20th in the world) and former world number one player yin ruoning (currently ranked fourth in the world) attended the pre-match news of this event. press conference.
the saudi aramco team series shenzhen station is co-organized by the saudi golf association and the china golf association and is jointly certified by the women's china tour and the women's european tour. the event attracted a total of 84 top women from all over the world, including 12 chinese players. players will participate, and they will join hands with 28 amateur golfers to form 28 teams to participate in the two-day team competition. at the same time, 84 professional golfers will also compete in individual competitions to compete for a total prize of us$1 million.
the team grouping of this series adopts a unique competition system. the top-ranked player in the world serves as the team captain. each team is named after the captain. the captain will select a professional player as a teammate, and then allocate them through random drawings. as a third teammate, each team has four players. in addition to the three professional players, there will also be an amateur golfer.
on october 2, the lineup of the 28 participating teams was officially announced. she chose women's china tour player cai danlin to join the team, paired with norwegian player madeleine stavnaar and an amateur golfer to form the "yin ruoning team". yin ruoning said: "cai danlin and i have played many youth games together, growing up. this time we can form a team together, which gives me a very good feeling."
paris olympic bronze medalist lin xiyu chose to be in the same group with two professional golfers: british golfer liz young and spanish golfer marta sanz barrio, as well as an amateur player. at the pre-match press conference, lin xiyu recalled the key moment when she won the saudi aramco team series hong kong station last year: "actually, i had a chance to win on the first extra hole, but the distance of about 3 yards did not advance. on the second hole of the extra hole, i just thought it would be okay." at that time, she made a long putt of nearly 20 yards in the rain. "such a long distance was not in my plan. i felt that besides being calm, i also had luck. blessings.”
text | reporter liang jinsong
picture | provided by the organizer
