The Ladies’s NSW Open will happen on the magnificent Magenta Shores Golf & Nation Membership on the NSW Central Coast from March 29-31, 2024, whereas the Australian Ladies’s Basic returns to Bonville on the Coffs Coast starting on April fifth and working till April seventh.
The back-to-back tournaments will see a sizeable bounce in prizemoney, with the purses for every now set at AUD 500,000. The 2 tournaments – already key occasions on the Ladies’s Australian PGA Tour Schedule (WPGA Tour) may even return to the Women European Tour (LET) schedule in 2024.
And in a primary for ladies’s golf in New South Wales, a further six 36-hole Regional Open Qualifying Tournaments, every carrying a handbag of $50,000, might be a part of the 2023- 2024 schedule previous to the back-to-back championships in late March.
Olivia Wilson, Common Supervisor – Golf at Golf NSW, mentioned the elevated variety of tournaments and bounce in prizemoney was a welcome reflection of the rising curiosity in elite feminine sport and participation within the pastime post-covid.
“Golf will at all times be a recreation for all and a sport that anybody can embrace no matter age or capability.
“It is a thrill to see how the sporting public embrace our best feminine athletes in no matter self-discipline they excel.
“With lots of the Women European Tour’s finest on present, it will likely be a improbable few weeks of Golf.
“With luck, we’ll see a hometown star or two shine and get their profession off to a superb begin,” Ms Wilson mentioned.
Karen Lunn, CEO of the WPGA Tour of Australasia, was delighted with the information.
“The WPGA is thrilled to accomplice with Golf NSW to ship world-class golf this summer time. To compete for over $1 million on some nice programs in regional NSW is a primary for our organisation and a improbable alternative to showcase our recreation’s finest gamers and girls’s sports activities generally.”
There might be six NSW Open Regional Qualifying Collection occasions from August 2023 – March 2024. PHOTO: David Tease, Golf NSW.
Graeme Phillipson, Chief Working Officer at Golf NSW, mentioned the tournaments could be a welcome financial injection into the communities surrounding the host golf equipment and showcase each programs to a world viewers.
“The Womens NSW Open and The Australian Ladies’s Basic have at all times been properly supported by the LET, and with the host tournaments websites already famend for the take a look at they are going to provide to the gamers, I’d anticipate each fields to have a really sturdy worldwide flavour,” he mentioned.
Mr Phillipson additionally confirmed that the Australian Ladies’s Basic and the Ladies’s NSW Open TV might be broadcast by way of Foxtel and Kayo by way of SEN, with the ultimate rounds of all Regional Qualifying Collection occasions to be live-streamed on the SEN community and Golf NSW social & digital channels.
“Digital expertise is at all times evolving, and in the previous couple of years, this evolution has allowed us to broadcast from a number of nice programs we might by no means have hoped to take action from earlier than.
“Will probably be improbable to broadcast a few of our greatest regional programs to the world and showcase our greatest {golfing} expertise.”
Dates and venues for six $50,000 NSW Open Regional Qualifying Collection occasions are:
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.
Narrabri Golf Membership: March 14-16, 2024
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