{"id":11058,"date":"2022-03-17T10:21:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladiesingolf.com\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:22:47","slug":"hall-y-nordqvist-expecting-challenge-at-saudi-ladies-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladiesingolf.com\/en\/hall-y-nordqvist-expecting-challenge-at-saudi-ladies-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall y Nordqvist expecting challenge at Saudi Ladies International"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo: Tristan Jones<\/em><\/p>\n

Major winners Georgia Hall and Anna Nordqvist are looking forward to the testing conditions at this week\u2019s Aramco Saudi Ladies International.\u00a0It is the third edition of the tournament, which is held at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in KAEC and will see 108 players from 27 countries tee it up in the LET\u2019s second event of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nordqvist, who won the 2021 AIG Women\u2019s Open, believes the wind will be a factor in the tournament with strong gusts predicted throughout the week :\u201cI love coming here, it\u2019s my third time now and this is probably as good as I\u2019ve ever seen the golf course, it\u2019s very lush out there,\u201d said the Swede, who finished ninth in the 2021 Race to Costa del Sol.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably as windy as I\u2019ve ever seen it, so it\u2019s going to be a challenge because it\u2019s early in the year. Normally when you come here you have quite a few months of tournament play behind you, so that\u2019s going to add a little extra challenge this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Nordqvist is excited to see the new rookies on the LET this year and the record-breaking schedule that is ahead of them in 2022:\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of good tournaments added to the Ladies European Tour schedule this year, so I\u2019m excited to play a few with the girls,\u201d said the number 16 in the Rolex Women\u2019s World Golf Rankings.What\u2019s so great about the Ladies European Tour is players from all over the world come to compete, and they also play all over the world, so that diversity and everything about the Ladies European Tour makes people feel at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

While fellow Solheim Cup winner Hall, who was runner-up in the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2020, is hoping to thrive in the tough conditions.<\/p>\n

The English star will tee it up with two-time LET winner Pia Babnik and Finland\u2019s Sanna Nuutinen, who finished fourth in last year\u2019s Race to Costa del Sol :\u201cI really enjoy the golf course, it\u2019s in really good condition and the win can get up a lot which I don\u2019t mind, but it\u2019s a really enjoyable place to be and I love it here,\u201d said the 2018 Women\u2019s Open winner.\u00a0I feel quite comfortable playing in the wind, I feel like I\u2019m used to it a bit more than other players. I think it will be fairly windy this week, but the greens are in good condition and not too fast, so I think the ball should hold.\u00a0In the afternoons, you have to prepare for a lot of wind and how it changes the ball flight, but the most important thing is to stay patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo will be joined in the field by 2020 Race to Costa del Sol champion and 2020 Aramco Saudi Ladies International winner Emily Kristine Pedersen who is playing alongside Steph Kyriacou and Olivia Cowan.<\/p>\n

Plus, Dutch star Anne Van Dam, Spain\u2019s Carlota Ciganda, South Africa\u2019s Lee-Anne Pace, and Norway\u2019s Marianne Skarpnord will all be hoping to gain more success this week.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Tristan Jones Major winners Georgia Hall and Anna Nordqvist are looking forward to the testing conditions at this week\u2019s Aramco Saudi Ladies International.\u00a0It is the third edition of the tournament, which is held at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in KAEC and will see 108 players from 27 countries tee it up in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[45,864,881],"tags":[2096,989,1281,1984,1008,1985,1988,1794,508,594,2081],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t