Stars align for top women’s events | Inside Golf. Australia’s Most-Read Golf Magazine as named by Australian Golfers

PRIZEMONEY is on the rise and two of the nation New South Wales greatest golf programs have additionally put their fingers as much as host a few of the greatest girls golfers on the planet.

And prime of their ‘want’ listing will likely be North Coast skilled Sarah Kemp, who has been having her greatest yr but on the US LPGA Tour.

On the uncommon events she is ‘dwelling’ Kemp lives at Forster on the Mid North Coast of the state.

And which means Magenta Shores on the Central Coast and Bonville, simply south of Coffs Harbour, will likely be proper on her doorstep if she makes it dwelling to compete.

Not that Kemp would want to qualify, due to her excellent abroad document.

But there will likely be a string of younger amateurs in addition to some Aussie professionals determined to hone their video games on these testing layouts by participating in new collection of six regional qualifying occasions for girls, starting at Mollymook subsequent month.

However first there will likely be qualifying occasions at Mollymook, Wagga, Orange, Bathurst, Dubbo and Narrabri.

And the ‘carrot’ for individuals who play effectively within the qualifying occasions would be the probability to compete within the Ladies’s NSW Open at Magenta Shores Golf & Nation Membership from March 29-31, 2024 in addition to the Australian Ladies’s Traditional at Bonville on the Coffs Coast from April 5-7.

These back-to-back tournaments will see a sizeable soar in prizemoney, with the purses for every now set at $500,000. 

The 2 championships – already key occasions on the Ladies’s Australian PGA Tour Schedule (WPGA Tour) will even return to the Women European Tour (LET) calendar in 2024.

The joy will construct because the six 36-hole Regional Open Qualifying Tournaments will every carry a handbag of $50,000.

They are going to kind a part of the 2023-2024 schedule previous to the back-to-back main Aussie occasions from late March. 

CEO of the WPGA Tour of Australasia, Karen Lunn, expressed her delight at what lies forward for the perfect girls golfers on this nation.

“The WPGA is thrilled to associate with Golf NSW to ship world-class golf this summer time,” stated Lunn.

“To compete for greater than $1 million on some nice programs in regional NSW is a primary for our organisation and a improbable alternative to showcase our sport’s greatest gamers and ladies’s sports activities typically.”

State Minister for Jobs and Tourism John Graham stated the NSW Authorities was happy to be supporting these main girls’s sporting occasions which might enhance tourism in a number of areas. 

“These tournaments will characteristic a few of Australia’s prime feminine golfers and in addition showcase a few of the nation’s greatest golf programs, placing these areas on the ‘should go to’ listing for golfers who attend the tournaments and the followers who observe them,” stated Graham. 

“Sport brings communities collectively, and having a few of the nation’s main feminine golfers play at programs throughout regional NSW will carry social and financial profit to those areas.”

It has additionally been confirmed that the Australian Ladies’s Traditional and the Ladies’s NSW Open could be broadcast by Foxtel and Kayo by way of SEN, with the ultimate rounds of all Regional Qualifying Sequence occasions to be live-streamed on the SEN community and Golf NSW social and digital channels.

The Qualifying Sequence schedule is:

Mollymook Golf Membership (Hilltop Course):November 18-20, 2023.

Wagga Wagga Nation Membership:November 22-24, 2023.

Duntryleague Golf Membership:  March 3-5, 2024.

Bathurst Golf Membership: March 6-8, 2024.

Dubbo Golf Membership:  March 10-12, 2024.