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02.09 Ny lagturnering for damer:
Fire lag spiller i Japan i
desember
Lagturneringer i golf er gøy, spennende og underholdende.
Nå skal en ny turnering se dagens lys. Det blir ni spillere på hvert av de fire
lagene.
Lagene skal settes sammen av spillere fra tourene i Europa, Korea, Japan og
Australia.
Se pressemeldingen:
Four Tours Launch New International Team Event in Japan
2nd September 2015: Four of the world’s major women’s golf tours have launched a
brand new team competition called THE QUEENS presented by Kowa, which will take
place on December 4-6, 2015, at Miyoshi Country Club, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
Four teams of nine players from the Australian Ladies Professional Golf (ALPG),
Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA), Ladies European Tour (LET)
and the Ladies’ Professional Golfers’ Association of Japan (JLPGA) will compete
in the three day tournament with a total purse of 100 million yen (approximately
739,000 euros).
“In sport, there is nothing better than getting behind your team,” said the
Ladies European Tour’s CEO Ivan Khodabakhsh. “On the LET, we celebrate the
individual achievements of our players, who represent 40 different countries,
week in, week out, but we are thrilled to be launching this innovative,
first-its kind competition where fans around the globe will really be able to
get behind the players from their home country and tour.”
Qualification for the Ladies European Tour team is open to LET Members from
Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA) and the team of nine, to be announced in
October, will include:
1. Team Captain: To be selected by the Tour. The Captain will be an experienced
member who has earned the respect and admiration of the golfing world and her
fellow professionals.
2. Order of Merit: The top six eligible members from the LET Order of Merit
following the 2015 Lacoste Ladies Open de France.
3. Rolex Rankings: The top two eligible members from the Top 100 of the Rolex
World Rankings after the 2015 Lacoste Ladies Open de France. If these two spots
are not filled, they will be given back to the next eligible players from the
LET Order of Merit.
Players from Australia and New Zealand will be eligible for the ALPG team, with
Korean and Japanese players respectively representing the KLPGA and JLPGA.
The final format is still to be confirmed, but the three days’ play will consist
of a mixture of foursomes and four ball match-play and individual stroke play
competition.
The challenging West Course at Miyoshi Country Club will be a fitting venue as
it has previously hosted several championships, including the Munsingwear Ladies
Tokai Classic, Tokai Ladies Classic and Japan Women's Open in 1998.
At a press conference in Tokyo, JLPGA Chairman Hiromi Kobayashi said (through
translation): “Having 36 top players from four of the world’s major tours
competing in a team competition in Japan for the first time has really excited
sports fans and we are really looking forward to this dream tournament which is
certain to be extremely competitive.”
The QUEENS presented by Kowa is one of several edgy concepts recently developed
by the Ladies European Tour. These include broadcasting premium events for free
live on YouTube and testing a Wednesday final round in Turkey in order to avoid
the over saturated weekend sports television schedules thereby generating more
media exposure for women’s sport worldwide.
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