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Ladies European Tour: Alexandra Forsterling holds off Charley Hull to win Aramco Team Series in Tampa

Charley Hull finished second ahead of Bronte Law, while Carlota Ciganda shared fourth spot; Alexandra Försterling boosted her Solheim Cup qualification hopes with a three-shot victory at the Aramco Team Series event in Tampa

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Alexandra Försterling pulled clear of favourite Charley Hull to register a third Ladies European Tour title with a three-shot win at the Aramco Team Series event in Tampa.

Försterling started the day joint-second at Feather Sound Country Club but pulled clear of a star-studded leaderboard after mixing six birdies with a lone bogey to post a final-round 67.

The German followed a birdie at the second with back-to-back gains from the sixth, then cancelled out a dropped shot at the eighth with three birdies in a five-hole stretch from the 12th to move to 12 under.

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Försterling then made pars over her final two holes and ended the week ahead of playing partner Hull, who posted a one-under 71 to end the week in second ahead of compatriot Bronte Law.

"I feel overwhelmed," Försterling said. "I don't know what to say! It's an amazing feeling, I was definitely nervous like you always are in a final round, but I just tried to learn from the last times when I won and just play my game, adjust to the wind and have fun.

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"I really tried to stay patient and really have fun and just stay in the moment and not think ahead and not think about the past. That's what I try every single round."

Försterling's win moves her into the second automatic spot for the European Team at the 2024 Solheim Cup, ahead of the contest taking place in September, while Hull's runner-up finish is her second in as many events.

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"It was good, I played pretty solid," said Hull. "It wasn't the result that I wanted with another second-place finish! It was one of those weeks, but I feel good. It was very tricky with the wind, I hit some good shots in and they just bounced off but I played pretty solid today."

Law claimed third ahead of Spanish duo Ana Peláez Trivino and Carlota Ciganda, who shared fourth spot, while a final-round 72 left American star Lexi Thompson in 11th place on five under.

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The Ladies European Tour (LET) is the top-level women's professional golf tour for Europe-based golfers. Membership is open to golfers of all nationalities and over time the tour has expanded to hold tournaments outside of Europe, including in Asia and the Middle East. Today, the tour plays as many tournaments outside of Europe as it does in the U.K. and Continental Europe.

As the top European golf tour for women, the LET is one of the world's top women's golf tours and its tournaments award ranking points for the Rolex Rankings, the women's world golf ranking system .

The Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour collaborate in running the Solheim Cup , one of the highest-profile events in women's professional golf.

The LET was founded in 1978 (originally called the WPGA — Women's Professional Golf Association — Tour), and its first season of tournaments was in 1979. After a couple name changes, "Ladies European Tour" has been the official name since 2000.

For the list of coming events, with dates and locations, see the schedule section of the LET website.

Today the tour is headquartered at Buckinghamshire Golf Club outside of London. The tour's contact info:

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The two tours partner to run the biggest event in women's golf, the every-other-year Solheim Cup. In the Solheim Cup, a team of American golfers from the LPGA Tour play a team of European golfers. While the majority of players on Team Europe in the Solheim Cup play on the LPGA, all of them have membership on the LET. (European golfers who do not have LET membership are ineligible for the Solheim Cup.)

The tours also collaborate by co-sanctioning multiple tournaments each year, meaning that each tour has a hand in determining qualifications for those events, and each tour counts such tournaments as official events. Those tournaments include two majors, the Evian Championship and Women's British Open, plus the Ladies Scottish Open.

In 2019, the LPGA and LET announced a more formal relationship between the two tours that included the LPGA assisting with marketing, tournament promotion and development.

How to Qualify for the Ladies European Tour

Membership on the LET is earned primarily through one of two ways: by finishing high enough in the LET's "tour school" series of qualifying tournaments; or by playing on the developmental tour, the LET Access Series , and earning promotion.

The LET Access Series is the official developmental tour of the LET, and each year the top five finishers on the LETAS money list automatically earn LET membership. Players finishing 6-20 get to skip earlier stages of tour school and advance directly to the final tour school qualifying tournament.

The official name of the LET's tour school is Lalla Aicha Tour School . There are three pre-qualifying tournaments that tour hopefuls can enter, one each in October, November, and December every year. Golfers who finish high enough in the pre-qualifiers advance into the Final Stage qualifier, played in Morocco in December. And the highest finishers at that Final Stage qualifier earn the right to play LET tournaments for the following season.

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The LET has named a Player of the Year since 1995 and a Rookie of the Year since 1984. These are the golfers who've won those awards:

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Nobody who has followed the Ladies European Tour over the years will argue this statement: Laura Davies is the greatest player in LET history.

How can we be so sure? Davies holds the LET's all-time record for most victories with 45 wins — more than twice as many as the golfer in second place on that list. The winningest LET golfers are Davies with 45, then Dale Reid, 21 wins; Marie-Laure de Lorenzi and Trish Johnson with 19 each; Annika Sorenstam , 17; and Sophie Gustafson, 16.

De Lorenzi has the tour's record for most wins in a single season with seven in 1988.

The oldest winner of an LET tournament is Trish Johnson, who was 48 when she claimed the 2014 Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open. The youngest winner is Atthaya Thitikul, who, at age 14, won the 2017 Ladies European Thailand Championship.

The 18-hole scoring record (on a regulation-length and -par golf course) for LET tournaments is 61. That score was first achieved in 2005 by Kirsty Taylor at the Wales Ladies Championship of Europe. Since then, it's been matched by Nina Reis (2008), Karrie Webb (2010) and So Yeon Ryu (2012).

The LET record for most strokes under par in a tournament is 29-under, set by Gwladys Nocera with a score of 259 at the 2008 Goteborg Masters.

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A Ladies European Tour pro reveals one week’s expenses, illustrating just how hard it is to make a living

Ladies European Tour player Hannah Gregg earned $1,244 for finishing 54th at the Women's New South Wales Open in Australia but incurred expenses of $3,672. Gregg says she would have needed to finish 21st to make any money.

You didn't need to see the opulent practice facility and hyper-manicured turf to know players at the Masters operate on a different plane of reality than the rest of professional golf. But a post today by Ladies European Tour player Hannah Gregg drove that point home, at least financially.

Gregg laid out her expenses for the week at the Women's New South Wales Open in Australia, and they painted a striking picture of how hard it is to make a living for the vast majority of professional players—male or female.

Her total expenses for the week ($3,672) included her flight down under from Phoenix ($2,600), work visa ($350), food ($377), fuel for her rental car ($165), entry fee ($130) and lounge pass for her caddie ($50). That total was about as conservative as it could have been because she didn't have to pay a caddie (her fiancé is working gratis) or for housing thanks to a sweet deal with a host family.

Gregg made the cut and finished 54th, which was good for $1,244. She said she needed to finish 21st to make money, but that doesn't even account for taxes.

In contrast, Masters competitors who missed the cut were paid a $10,000 stipend to cover travel and other expenses. At the LPGA Tour’s Chevron Championship, 54th place paid $23,365, and the event also paid the same $10,000 for all players who missed the cut.

The difference between making it and having to find another line of work? It's not just how well you play, but how long you can stay out there trying before the money runs out.

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LIV Golf are yet to receive accreditation from the Official World Golf Ranking but another 54-hole circuit in the Clutch Pro Tour have been given the green light for ranking points

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LIV Golf's Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) hopes may well have been given a boost on Thursday, after the ranking system awarded OWGR-sanctioning to a fellow 54-hole circuit in the Clutch Pro Tour.

The Clutch Pro Tour - known as the Mizuno Next Gen Series is a development tour offering a pathway for professional golfers in England, feeding into the Challenge Tour, one level below the DP World Tour. And despite its 54-hole format, the circuit's 36-hole cut and routes to other tours has seen it receive the green light from OWGR.

"After a 17-month-long application process, in which the Tour worked continuously toward the standards required to become an OWGR Eligible Golf Tour," the ranking system said in a statement.

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"The Clutch Pro Tour will become an OWGR Eligible Golf Tour from Week 17, week ending 28th April 2024, and its official Tier 1 tournaments, in accordance with OWGR regulations, will be eligible for inclusion in the ranking. The Clutch Pro Tour provides access to its official tournaments, conducted over 54 holes with a 36-hole cut, via its 2024 qualifying series held in the UAE and, for its 2025 season, an annual open qualifying school.

"It also provides local and regional players opportunities, culminating with a no-cut, season-ending Championship. As such, the Clutch Pro Tour is in keeping with long-standing OWGR Eligibility and Format Criteria. The Clutch Pro Tour has played a pivotal role in the United Kingdom – particularly since the closure of the EuroPro Tour. Its organization has provided the continuation of playing opportunities and pathways for players to progress to the European Challenge Tour and the DP World Tour."

For those in charge of the LIV setup, OWGR's decision shows their 54-hole format will not prove a hurdle if they were to re-launch a bid for ranking status. Their problem does however seem to lie with LIV events including no cut line, as well as their promotion and relegation process, with the league's roster often coined a 'closed shop'.

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Earlier this year the breakaway league revealed they had given up on their hunt for ranking points, with LIV CEO Greg Norman slamming the OWGR system in a letter to his playing membership. Per Sports Illustrated, the letter from Norman read: "We have made significant efforts to fight for you and ensure your accomplishments are recognised within the existing ranking system.

"Unfortunately, OWGR has shown little willingness to productively work with us... The rankings are structured to penalise anyone who has not played regularly on an 'Eligible Tour' with the field ratings disproportionately rewarding play on the PGA Tour,” Norman went on.

"This is illustrated by the fact only four players inside the top 50 are not PGA Tour players Jon Rahm (3), Tyrrell Hatton (17), Brooks Koepka (30) and Cam Smith (45) and by the precipitous decline of LIV players generally, notwithstanding extraordinary performances in LIV events.

“Even if LIV Golf events were immediately awarded points, the OWGR system is designed such that it would be functionally impossible for you to regain positions close to the summit of the ranking, where so many of you belong.” LIV players have seen their names tumble down the world rankings since making the Saudi switch in the summer of 2022.

At this month's Masters, just two members from the Saudi-backed series earned their spot at Augusta via their world rankings, but were two of the league's newest signings in Tyrrell Hatton and Adrian Meronk. In total 13 LIV stars competed in the opening major of the year, five less than the year prior.

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She couldn’t do it again, could she?

We ended Sunday learning Nelly has air-tight cannonball form.

Korda started the Sunday marathon at The Club at Carlton Woods with less-than 33% win probability according to KPMG Performance Insights. Her dramatic chip-in at No. 10 pushed that number over 90% and would never look back.

Korda’s Historic Brilliance

During her streak, Korda is gaining an absurd 3.60 strokes per round on the competition, and that doesn’t even include her three match-play victories in Las Vegas. She has made birdie or eagle on 28.7% of her total holes played and is 46-under on par 5s. When she has hit the fairway on a par 4 or 5, she has gone on to hit the green in regulation a ridiculous 86% of the time. At Carlton Woods, she only missed five of 42 greens all week after hitting the fairway.

Korda was excellent through the bag in her victory, ranking third in strokes gained tee-to-green, fourth around the green, sixth off the tee and 12th in putting. Her lead over second-ranked Lydia Ko in strokes gained total per round this season is now larger than the gap between Ko and the 13th-best player in that metric.

In what will be horrifying news for her fellow competitors, Korda still has room to get even better. This season, she has one of the lowest putt make percentages from 5 to 10 feet among qualified players. There are six players on the LPGA Tour this season making a higher rate of birdie opportunities than Korda is. She ranks 102nd on Tour in one-putts per round. Her ball-striking prowess is such that she easily overcomes a miscue or two per round on the greens.

Korda has tied the record for most consecutive victories in LPGA Tour history with five, matching the historic runs of Nancy Lopez in 1978 and Annika Sorenstam in late 2004 into 2005. In her next tournament, Korda will have an opportunity to do what no player has accomplished in LPGA history by winning a sixth start in a row. Neither Lopez nor Sorenstam finished in the top 10 the week they went for number six: Lopez finished tied for 13th at the 1978 Lady Keystone Open, while Sorenstam finished T12 at Kingsmill.

Only once in the previous seven LPGA Tour seasons was there an instance of a player winning five or more times in an entire season – Jin Young Ko, who had five victories in 2021. No American player had won five or more times in a single LPGA Tour season since Juli Inkster in 1999. Korda did both of those things in a span of just five tournaments.

No American player has won six times in a single LPGA Tour season since Beth Daniel racked up seven victories in 1990, eight years before Korda was born. The superlatives are seemingly endless, and with so much golf left on the schedule this year, one must wonder how high her star will ascend before 2024 is completed. Just 25, Korda is the youngest American player to win multiple majors since Inkster in 1984.

Coughlin’s Breakthrough

Before last week, Lauren Coughlin had a career scoring average in major championships of 73.4. While she undoubtedly was under the radar as a possible contender, several of her underlying statistics suggested that a big week was on the horizon.

KPMG Performance Insights provide a deeper understanding of the number of improvements in Coughlin’s game. She entered last week up 16 spots this season compared to 2023 in strokes gained total, 29 spots in strokes gained tee to green, and a whopping 76 spots in strokes gained putting. Though she didn’t yet have a top-five finish on the season, Coughlin had gained more than a stroke with her ball striking in almost half of her rounds played.

In Houston, Coughlin put everything together, gaining more than six strokes on the field in both round one and round four. In the final round, she gained strokes in every facet of her game, showcasing the improvements those statistics suggested. Coughlin’s tie for third place moved her into ninth in the U.S. Solheim Cup standings.

Third Round to Remember

The round of the week belonged to Brooke Henderson, whose lightning-interrupted 64 wrapped up with one last hole on Sunday morning. Henderson gained more than 7.5 shots on the competition in the round, by far her most to date in 2024. In rounds one and two, the Canadian star made a combined 107 feet of putts. She made an astronomical 139 feet worth in round three.

Henderson already has more top-10 finishes this season (five) than she did in all of 2023 on the LPGA Tour. She is one of just three players averaging two or more strokes gained per round in 2024, alongside Korda and Lydia Ko. She has had more rounds this year where she was five or more strokes better than the field (four) than she has rounds where she lost strokes (three).

Off the tee, Henderson’s incremental improvements have started to add up. Henderson is hitting the fairway at a 4% higher rate than last year yet has not sacrificed any length with driver. That has led to her gaining 0.74 strokes off the tee per round this season, more than doubling what she did in 2023 and ninth best of any player on the LPGA Tour.

If anybody is going to stop Nelly Korda next month at Lancaster Country Club, Henderson is as good a candidate as any. The U.S. Women’s Open begins on May 30.

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Matthieu Pavon relishing chance to leave lasting impact for French golf on home soil

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Competing and being part of the Olympic Games for the first time this summer is a prospect that fills Frenchman Matthieu Pavon with great pride. Add the fact it will be on home soil, and it only heightens his motivation to make it an impactful experience.

Paris 2024 will be the third Summer Games since golf’s return at Rio in 2016 after a 112-year absence, with the top 60 men’s and women’s golfers on the Olympic Golf Rankings set to feature.

After a career-changing past six months or so in which he has won on both the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR for the first time, Pavon is eager to seize the opportunity to leave a legacy and serve as a catalyst for growth in participation in his homeland.

“I love golf so much. It has been a part of my life for so many years. I think it is a great game with great values,” he told the DP World Tour. “I really hope the Olympics can help people in France to really enjoy the sport more and break some barriers. Golf is not just an elitist and wealthy game. Everyone can try to enjoy it.”

The Olympics is the largest global sporting gathering, and it will again see golf on a stage unlike any other event. In Pavon and Solheim Cup star Céline Boutier, who won her maiden major title at the Evian Championship last summer, France is blessed with two fantastic superstars.

Pavon knows just how important it is for young aspiring athletes to have role models to look up to, highlighting the success of compatriot Boutier.

“As I said before, Celine is a big champion,” added Pavon, who is this week teeing it up at the ISPS HANDA – CHAMPIONSHIP in Japan as a host of stars from the DP World Tour and Japan Golf Tour Organization visit Taiheiyo Club Gotemba.

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“I hope all those little girls back home are watching Celine and want to be like her,” he added. “It would be a pleasure for me to do the same with the boys back home.

“We haven’t had a big French guy playing all over the world and winning big tournaments so far. It could definitely help France to motivate more people to get into the game. It would be nice to try and be the role model, like Céline is.”

With the doors already opened to the biggest events in the world of golf, Pavon is in no doubt about the impact the upcoming sporting spectacle could have on his ongoing rise to prominence.

“It will be massive for my career progression,” he explained. “I have watched the Olympics since I was a kid.

“The Olympics are part of history. It’s great that golf is back, and I can’t wait to represent my country in France.”

Le Golf National – widely regarded as one of the toughest assignments on the DP World Tour – will host the golf at the Olympic Games.

As the countdown to the start of the men’s tournament reaches 100 days on Tuesday, the 31-year-old knows the test – perhaps more than most as a home player – that awaits those who qualify.

“Tough!” he said when asked for his first thoughts of the venue, best known for staging the 2018 Ryder Cup.

“When they set it up for big tournaments it is really tough. There is lots of water around the golf course. The stretch from the 15th to the 18th is probably one of the hardest I have ever played. I would say it is in the top three toughest courses. It is going to be a good challenge.”

His first memory of competitive action at Le Golf National was his debut appearance at the Open de France in 2016.

Pavon, then playing on the European Challenge Tour, was making his first start on the DP World Tour and missed the cut – his first that year.

But is his appearance at his national open in 2018, two weeks after finishing in a credible tie for 25th on his major debut at the U.S. Open, that he then quickly recalls.

“I was full of confidence, and I showed up at the French Open and shot an 85 in the first round,” he said with a wry smile.

“It shows how tough and how cruel Le Golf National can be.”

Life for Pavon has changed substantially since then, however, and he is a far more accomplished golfer.

Having earned dual membership on the PGA TOUR for 2024 after finishing 15th in last season’s Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex, he made an instant impact stateside with victory at the Farmers Insurance Open in January.

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With it, he made history as the first French winner on the PGA TOUR since 1907, following his debut DP World Tour victory at the acciona Open de España presented by Madrid in October.

After some further notable performances, most recently fulfilling his lifelong ambition of making his debut appearance at Augusta National, he has now positioned himself as a member of the world’s golfing elite.

He finished in a tie for 12th at Augusta National to earn a return visit next year, climbing to a career-high 22nd in the Official World Golf Ranking in the process.

Among the leading continental European players on the global stage, Pavon will hope to maintain his momentum over the coming months to ensure his homecoming at the Paris 2024 Olympics is as successful as it can be.

“It will be big for me to have the home crowds cheering for us,” said Pavon, who is currently set to be joined by fellow DP World Tour and PGA TOUR dual member Victor Perez in representing France on home soil.

“It will for sure help us to give our best,” he continued. “But then, it is another golf tournament. Trying to beat the golf course will just be the goal that week.

“If I am in contention going into the last nine holes over the weekend it will just be an incredible experience.”