This summer time guarantees to be a tremendous summer time of sport for girls in Wales
The most important feminine sporting occasion ever to be hosted in Wales will occur later this month. From July 30 to August 3, the AIG Girls’s Open will happen at Royal Porthcawl Golf Membership in Relaxation Bay which means the world’s finest golfers will descend on the well-known coastal course for the ultimate main of the 12 months.
The gorgeous course has hosted a number of top-level {golfing} occasions prior to now, together with The Novice Championship seven occasions, the Walker Cup, the Curtis Cup and The Senior Open.
The week earlier than the event, on July 28, Pyle and Kenfig Golf Membership in Bridgend will host the ultimate qualifying. After 18 holes, a minimal of three golfers will earn their place within the main.
Royal Porthcawl Golf Membership is a famously gorgeous course with sea views from each gap. Nevertheless, golfers should deal with the ocean breeze because the wind is a continuing issue.
On arguably probably the most well-known day within the course’s historical past so far, the course was the venue of one of many uncommon bumps through the peak of Tiger Woods profession. The younger {golfing} star put the ball out of bounds thrice within the Walker Cup singles match.
The winner Gary Wolstenholme famously mentioned: “It will be on my tombstone: the person who beat Tiger Woods.”
Welsh golfer, Darcey Harry, has certified for the occasion which can be hosted at her house membership. The 22-year-old from Dinas Powys gained her first title on the Women European Tour final month when she gained on the Hulencourt Girls’s Open in Belgium.
Chatting with The Girls’s Open web site she mentioned: “I am so excited. I did not assume I might ever image myself profitable on the LET, so it is so good to know I’ve lastly finished it.
“I believe the final putt was in all probability probably the most nervous I’ve ever been in my life.”
The final winner of the occasion was Lydia Ko on the Previous Course at St Andrews. From celebrity gigs to cosy pubs, discover out What’s On in Wales by signing as much as our e-newsletter right here.
The Girls’s Open is likely one of the 5 most prestigious tournaments in girls’s golf. It sits alongside the Chevron Championship, the US Girls’s Open, the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship, the Amundi Evian Championship and the AIG Girls’s Open.
The four-day competitors sees the world’s finest golfers play 18 holes over 4 consecutive days. The winner is whoever manages to 72 holes within the lowest variety of photographs. This 12 months the prize fund will stand at a whopping $9.5million.
To make sure the lasting influence of the event, the Welsh Authorities have additionally promised a £1m increase for girls’s golf in Wales off the again of the occasion.
Wales Golf CEO Hannah McAllister mentioned: “Because of the assist of the Welsh Authorities, we may help increase the supply for girls and women in golf, by improved services which may stand the check of time.
“Our joint hope is that the AIG Girls’s Open, the biggest feminine sporting occasion ever held in Wales, can have an identical long-term influence to the Ryder Cup in 2010.”
