Solheim Cup Stars Confirmed For Aramco Team Series London
The field at next month's Aramco Team Series London is set to be one of the strongest of the year on the Ladies European Tour
The field at next month's Aramco Team Series London is set to be one of the strongest of the year on the Ladies European Tour
Solheim Cup Stars Confirmed For Aramco Team Series London
European trio Charley Hull, Anne Van Dam and Catriona Matthew are the latest big names confirmed for next month’s $1million Aramco Team Series – London, as the debut tournament builds an appetite-whetting cross-Atlantic field just two months out from this year’s Solheim Cup.
Both Hull and big-hitting Van Dam played a key role in the European team, captained by Matthew, that snatched a pulsating one-point victory over the USA at Gleneagles back in 2019.
US superstar Lexi Thompson was part of the travelling party, and with July’s event already scheduled to be her only English appearance of the year, she will be looking to lay down a marker against the trio who she will compete with just eight weeks later in Ohio.
In the unique format of the Aramco Team Series – London, which sees 36 team captains paired with two other professionals and one amateur, Thompson could even play alongside a European rival.
Related: What is the Aramco Team Series?
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Former Women’s British Open champion, Georgia Hall, double-major winner, Anna Nordqvist, and 2021 LET Race to Costa del Sol champion, Emily Kristine Pedersen, have already confirmed participation in the event, taking place July 8-10 at the Centurion Club.
They will also be joined by Australia’s Minjee Lee, an eight-time champion across both the LET and LPGA and Australia’s #1 ranked golfer.
Catriona Matthew said, “It’s certainly shaping up to be quite the field – which is understandable, considering the exciting new format of the team tournament and what’s up for grabs. Being just a couple of months before the Solheim Cup adds a real bit of spice to the mix, especially with so many major-winners from both sides of the pond playing.
“As the Solheim Cup has proven, team golf is a format that really gets the heart-racing and brings so much additional excitement. Introducing four new Aramco Team Series events in four regions, I find a really fantastic initiative from the LET and I really am excited to see how it will propel women’s golf forward.”
2020 Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic winner, Minjee Lee, added, “When this format of event was trialed in Saudi Arabia last year, you could really feel how positively the women who played in it responded to it.
"It was something completely different but a format of golf that offered so much excitement, both for teams and individual players, and that’s what you want to see as often as possible on Tour.
“It’ll be really fun to play in and I can’t wait to get over to London and play as part of a team – something I love but almost never get to do!”
July’s London event is the first of five Aramco-sponsored events scheduled on the LET calendar for 2021.
They include the Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande (August 5-7), the Aramco Team Series - New York (October 14-16) and the Aramco Team Series – Jeddah (November 10-12).
The Jeddah event will take place just days after the Aramco Saudi Ladies International presented by the Public Investment Fund, being held from November 4-7.
Each Aramco Team Series tournament will see 36 captains lead teams of four players, who together will compete to shoot the lowest combined score over three days of golf.
All teams will feature three LET players paired through a unique draft system, in which captains choose one player and are randomly assigned another.
The fourth member of each team will be an amateur golfer – a position open to all golfers in the UK for the Aramco Team Series - London through the tournament’s world-first Team Up competition.
Fans can apply by uploading a video or image to social media before June 25th using the hashtag #ATSTeamUp, showing they have what it takes to play in an actual LET event.
For more information on Team Up and the Aramco Team Series - London, visit aramcoteamseries.com
Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!
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