3 reasons to watch the RACV Ladies Masters this week
This week the LET season is about to begin with the RACV Ladies Masters at RACV Royal Pines Resort in Queensland, Australia. The field of 144 players is well prepared and ready to start the season in style on the beautiful Gold Coast. Here are a few reasons to get excited about the tournament.
- 9 LET rookies in the field starting their professional careers
The following players will be playing in their first tournament as a member of the Ladies European Tour in 2015:
Lina Boqvist (Sweden)
Daisy Nielsen (Denmark)
Isabella Ramsay (Sweden)
Tonje Daffinrud (Norway)
Nanna Madsen (Denmark)
Anne Van Dam (Netherlands)
Ssu-Chia Cheng (Chinese Taipei)
Marta Sanz (Spain)
Annabel Dimmock (England)
- European Solheim Cup points are doubled
This week is the first tournament where European members of the LET will receive double the number of Solheim Cup points than in 2014. Eligible members receive points for top 10 finishes in all LET sanctioned tournaments and for top 20 finishes in the major championships: ANA Inspiration, KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, US Women’s Open presented by the USGA, Ricoh Women’s British Open and Evian Championship.
For the full points breakdown see:
http://www.solheimcup.de/en/team/team-qualification-criteria/
- Recent tournament winners in the field
The high calibre field features 10 Ladies European Tour winners from 2014, including the defending champion Cheyenne Woods from the United States, England’s Charley Hull and Florentyna Parker, Frenchwomen Gwladys Nocera, Valentine Derrey and Julie Greciet, Scotland’s Kylie Walker, South Africans Lee-Anne Pace and Connie Chen, Ssu-Chia Cheng of Chinese Taipei and Camilla Lennarth of Sweden.
