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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

No Scottish or English Women's Opens
on LET circuit next year

Prize money on the 2009 Ladies European Tour is expected to reach a record mark in excess of 12.1 million Euros ... despite the fact that there is NO Women's Scottish Open and NO Women's English Open.
The only Ladies European Tour event in either Scotland or England next year will be the Ladies Golf Union-organised Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes.

Ladies' European Tour dates, venues for 2009

Feb 5 - 8 ANZ Ladies Masters (Euros 296,966)
Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Feb 12 - 15 Women's Australian Open (E 247,471)
Metropolitan Golf Club, Melbourne, Australia

April 23 - 26 Comunitat Valenciana European Nations Cup (E325,000)
La Sella Golf Resort, Alicante, Spain

May 7 -10 Turkish Ladies Open (E250,000).
National Golf Club, Belek, Antalya, Turkey

May 14 - 17 Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open (E525,000)
Golf Gerre Losone, Ticino, Switzerland

May 21-24 HypoVereinsbank Ladies German Open (E250,000).
Golfpark Gut Häusern, Nr Munich, Germany

To be confirmed (late May): Ladies Italian Open (E400,000).

June 5 - 7 ABN AMRO Ladies Open (E250,000).
Eidhovensche Golf, Valkenswaard, Holland

June 12 - 14 Ladies Open of Portugal (E200,000).
Golden Eagle Golf Club, Rio Maior, Portugal

June 26 - 28 AIB Ladies Irish Open (E500,000).
Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links, Portmarnock, Co Dublin, Ireland

July 2 - 4 SAS Masters (E200,000).
Larvik Golf Club, Larvik, Norway.

July 16 - 19 Open de Espana femenino (E275,000 tbc)

July 23 - 26 EVIAN MASTERS (E2,430,258)
Evian Masters GC, Evian-Les-Bains, France

July 30 - 2 Aug RICOH WOMEN'S BRITISH OPEN (E1,645,098).
Royal Lytham and St.Annes Golf Club, Lancashire.

Aug 6 - 9 S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe (E390,565).
Royal St David Golf Club, Harlech, Wales

Aug 13 - 16 Göteborg Masters (E250,000).
Lycke Golf Club, Gothenburg, Sweden

Aug 21 - 23 SOLHEIM CUP (United States v Europe)
Rich Harvest Farms, Sugar Grove, Illinois, United States.

Aug 28 - 30 Finnair Masters (E200,000).
Helsinki Golf Club, Tali, Finland

Sept 11 - 14 UNIQA Ladies Golf Open (E250,000).
Golfclub Föhrenwald, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

Sept 17 - 20 Vediorbis/Randstad Open de France (E350,000).
Dames Golf d'Arras, Nord-Pas de Calais, France

Sept 24 - 27 Tenerife Ladies Open (E300,000).
Golf Costa Adeje, Adeje, Tenerife, Spain

Oct 2 - 4 Madrid Ladies Masters (E400,000).
Casino Club de Golf Retamares, Madrid, Spain

Oct 28 - Nov 1 Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open (E200,000)
Suzhou Taihu International Golf Club, Shanghai

To be confirmed: Korean Ladies Masters (E261,720).

To be confirmed: Indian Ladies Masters (E200,000).

Dec 10 - 13 Dubai Ladies Masters (E500,000).
Emirates Golf Course, (Majlis Course), Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Dec 18 - 20 Women's World Cup of Golf (E1,046,880).
South African venue to be confirmed.

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