Hong Kong's Ginnie Ding ‘super excited' to be part of women's LIV-like golf series
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Gone are the amateurs, with teams of professionals also competing for an individual prize over three rounds. This week, that involves the likes of defending team champion Danielle Kang, last year's individual winner Kim Hyo-joo, Bronte Law and Hong Kong's Ginnie Ding battling it out at the Aramco Korea Championship.
If that format sounds familiar, the only things really missing at New Korea Country Club in Seoul are team names. While the US$2 million in prize money is significantly less than in LIV Golf, it is still among the highest in the women's game.
Announcing the move on Thursday, Golf Saudi and the Public Investment Fund (PIF), which backs LIV Golf and the International Series on the men's Asian Tour, said the five tournaments on the Ladies European Tour would now form the PIF Global Series.
Korea is the second stop of the year, with the PIF Saudi Ladies International in February having marked the start of a series that will also take in the PIF Championship at the Centurion Club outside London, the Aramco Houston Championship and the Aramco Shenzhen Championship at Mission Hills.
Olivia Cowan at the Aramco Korea Championship, the second of five events on the PIF Global Series in 2025. Photo: Aramco Korea Championship
Ding, who is playing in Team Kim alongside the South Korean fan favourite, Ariane Klotz and Daniela Darquea courtesy of her high finish at last year's LET Q-school, said she was 'super excited' to be involved in her rookie season.
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