New tour for women pros launches in England – Golf News

The format of every one-day occasion (18 holes) will see a feminine skilled paired with an newbie associate, with prizes for each the professional’s particular person rating, in addition to the mixed staff complete.Following the conclusion of the season, choices are at the moment being explored for tournaments to happen within the Center East on the finish of the 12 months, creating enjoying alternatives for developmental golfers to take pleasure in.

With ease of entry and a developmental spirit in thoughts, the tour sees comparatively decrease entry charges than {many professional} occasions (£300 for members), whereas retaining a handbag of £10,000 for all occasions in its first 12 months for the professionals. As such, these succeeding within the match sequence will take pleasure in alternatives to earn a better quantity than on all present feminine excursions at this developmental degree.

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The ambitions of the tour will probably be for it to turn out to be an official feeder sequence for the present construction inside girls’s skilled golf; notably, offering a pathway into the Women European Tour Entry Collection. The primary occasion on the Women Professional Collection will happen the week commencing April 29 (venue TBC), with the remaining tournaments held at venues throughout England, once more serving to to make the sequence extra accessible to the members.

Sarah and Adam Walker, founders of the Women Professional Collection, mentioned: “Girls’s sport is rightly rising throughout the board. Golf is not any completely different and we wish to give girls the prospect to compete year-round with comparable prize funds to the lads. The usual of ladies’s golf within the UK is exemplary and we wish to showcase this and assist them develop their sport, so they’re able to compete on the highest degree.

“Having two younger daughters ourselves and having a sporting background we wish them to develop up in a world the place sport is honest and accessible for all, and we’re excited to be part of the journey.”

For extra details about the Women Professional Collection, go to www.ladiesproseries.co.uk.