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<\/p>\nA new Ladies European Tour season starts on Thursday with the Geoff King Motors Australian Ladies Classic at Bonville Golf Resort in New South Wales, the first event on the 2020 Race to Costa del Sol.<\/p>\n
The Race to Costa del Sol, which is the official LET ranking from 2020, offers a \u20ac250,000 bonus pool to the top three finishers. The Race begins in Australia with the first of 25 LET tournaments spanning 18 countries in a greatly enhanced 2020 LET schedule and concludes with the Andaluc\u00eda Costa del Sol Open de Espa\u00f1a Femenino in Spain in late November.<\/p>\n
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The new era begins at Bonville Golf Resort, situated halfway between Sydney and Brisbane on the beautiful Coffs Coast, where an international field of 151 competitors will play on \u201cAustralia\u2019s Favourite Golf Course\u201d 2016-2019, according to Golf Australia Magazine\u2019s Favourite Golf Courses poll. The defending champion, Marianne Skarpnord, will be joined by fellow 2019 tournament winners Diksha Dagar, Annabel Dimmock, Esther Henseleit, Nuria Iturrioz, C\u00e9line Herbin, Meghan MacLaren, Christine Wolf and Anne van Dam as well as many of the LET\u2019s rising stars from Q-School.<\/p>\n
It will tee up a fortnight of competition Down Under, with the Women\u2019s New South Wales Open taking place at Dubbo Golf Club the following week.<\/p>\n
The action then moves to the other side of the Indian Ocean for the Investec South African Women\u2019s Open at Westlake Golf Club, followed by the Saudi Ladies Championship at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club.<\/p>\n
The main European leg of the schedule begins with the Jabra Ladies Open at Evian Resort Golf Club, in early May, followed by the La Reserva de Sotogrande Invitational at La Reserva Club de Sotogrande and then the Mithra Belgian Ladies Open in Naxhelet.<\/p>\n
The Lalla Meryem Cup, which is co-located with the men\u2019s Hassan Trophy at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, will be followed by an innovative mixed field event, the Scandinavian Mixed Hosted by Henrik & Annika at Bro Hoff Slott Golf Club, where European Tour and Ladies European Tour members will go head-to-head for the first time on the same course, competing for one prize fund and one trophy.<\/p>\n
The players will remain in Europe for the Dutch Ladies Open at Rosendaelsche Golfclub and the Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open at Club de Golf Terramar.<\/p>\n
The Evian Championship, which has been played as the fifth major since 2013, will take place in mid-July. After everyone catches their breath for a week, a new event, to be revealed soon, will be played in the United Kingdom in early August, alongside the Tokyo 2020 women\u2019s Olympic Golf Competition.<\/p>\n
The UK swing continues with a fortnight in Scotland and the Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club, followed by the AIG Women\u2019s British Open, the final major of the year, at Royal Troon.<\/p>\n
The European odyssey continues with the TIPSPORT Czech Ladies Open at Golf Course Karlstejn, the Creekhouse Ladies Open at Kristianstads Golfklubb, the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open at Golfpark Holzh\u00e4usern and the Lacoste Ladies Open de France at Golf du M\u00e9doc.<\/p>\n
The action then moves to Asia for the Ladies European Thailand Championship at Phoenix Gold Golf and Country Club, the Hero Women\u2019s Indian Open at DLF Golf and Country Club and a new event in the Philippines, before moving on to the Middle East for the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic at Emirates Golf Club and then to Africa, for the Magical Kenya Ladies Open, at Vipingo Ridge.<\/p>\n
The LET then returns to Europe for the season finale at the Andaluc\u00eda Costa del Sol Open de Espa\u00f1a Femenino, one of the most popular stops of the year, where the winner of the season-long competition will be crowned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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