Tournament information | |
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Established | 2020 |
Tour(s) | Ladies European Tour |
Format | Individual and team event |
Prize fund | $1,000,000 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 187 Alison Lee |
To par | −29 as above |
Current champion | |
Charley Hull |
The Aramco Team Series is a professional women's golf competition that is part of the Ladies European Tour (LET), first played in 2020. [1]
The inaugural tournament was played as the Saudi Ladies Team International at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) by the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. It was the penultimate LET event of the 2020 season and followed the Aramco Saudi Ladies International. [2]
2021 saw the competition expanded to become the Aramco Team Series, with four tournaments to be held in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain and Saudi Arabia, each with a US$1 million prize fund. [3]
The tournament is a team competition with a total of 26 teams (36 in 2020 and 2021), each team consisting of three professionals and one amateur.
A draft is used to form the teams for the tournament. The team captains are seeded based on the official Women's World Golf Rankings. In a random order, the captains select the first additional player to join their team. Each team is then randomly assigned an amateur player and another professional from the remaining field.
Scoring is on a "two-from-four" basis which sees the best two scores on each hole counted for the team competition. With this format, the amateurs may contribute to the result of the game. In addition, the professionals complete every hole and the score is used for the individual competition. [4]
For 2022, the format was amended so that teams compete over only 36 holes, the first two days of the tournament, with the final day exclusively for the 60 and ties who make the cut, to compete for the individual title. Also, instead of an 80/20 split, an equal split of the US$ 1,000,000 prize between the team and individual events was introduced. [5]
Noora Komulainen is a Finnish professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won the 2022 Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande team event together with Tereza Melecká and Jessica Korda.
Lina Boqvist is a Swedish professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour 2015–2022. She was runner-up at the 2019 Lalla Meryem Cup, and won the team event at the 2021 Aramco Team Series – New York together with Jessica Korda and Karolin Lampert.
Linnea Ström is a Swedish professional golfer. She joined the U.S.-based LPGA Tour after graduating from the Symetra Tour as 2018 Rookie of the Year. She was solo second at the 2022 Madrid Ladies Open and 2023 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship before winning the 2024 ShopRite LPGA Classic.
Karolin Lampert is a German professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour. She was part of the winning team Johanna Gustavsson at the 2022 Aramco Team Series – New York.
Johanna Gustavsson is a Swedish professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour. In 2022, she was runner-up at the Saudi Ladies International, the Women's NSW Open and the Aramco Team Series – Bangkok, before captaining the winning team at the Aramco Team Series – New York. In 2023, she won the Lacoste Ladies Open de France and was named LET Player of the Year.
Pia Babnik is a Slovenian professional golfer. She won the 2019 R&A Girls Amateur Championship. In 2020, 16 years old, she joined the Ladies European Tour, where she won two tournaments the year after. 18 years old, she finished third at one of the professional major championships, the 2022 Chevron Championship.
Stacy Lee Bregman is a South African professional golfer and Ladies European Tour (LET) player. She has three LET runner-up finishes and played on the winning team at the 2021 Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande. She has six Sunshine Ladies Tour titles and as amateur won the Espirito Santo Trophy.
Nicole Garcia is a South African professional golfer playing on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She was runner-up at the 2015 Lalla Meryem Cup and captained the winning team at the 2022 Aramco Team Series – London.
Tiia Koivisto is a Finnish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She won the 2022 Jabra Ladies Open. In 2020, she topped the LETAS Order of Merit after winning the Czech Ladies Challenge.
Patricia Sanz Barrio is a professional golfer from Spain. She has played on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the U.S-based Symetra Tour.
Jessica Karlsson is a Swedish professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour (LET). In 2022, she was runner-up at the Amundi German Masters and won the team event at the Aramco Team Series – New York.
Agathe Sauzon is a French professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour. She finished second in the team event of the 2021 Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande.
Ana Peláez Triviño is a Spanish professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won the 2022 Madrid Ladies Open.
Lisa Pettersson is a Swedish professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won the 2023 Helsingborg Open. In 2022, she was runner-up at Skaftö Open and Åland 100 Ladies Open.
Kristýna Napoleaová is a Czech professional golfer and former footballer with AC Sparta Prague. She won the 2023 Amundi German Masters.
Chiara Noja is a German professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She turned professional in October 2021 at age 15. On 5 June 2022, Noja secured her maiden professional win at the Amundi Czech Ladies Challenge by 9 strokes. Six months later she became the youngest professional winner on the Ladies European Tour (LET), capturing the Aramco Team Series – Jeddah on 12 November 2022.
Hayley Davis is an English professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She was part of the winning team at the 2021 Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande and won the 2023 Cape Town Ladies Open. She was also runner-up at the 2019 Tipsport Czech Ladies Open.
Tereza Melecká is a Czech professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won the 2022 Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande team event together with Jessica Korda and Noora Komulainen.
Helen Briem is a German professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won three consecutive LET Access Series tournaments and rose to number 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking before turning professional in July 2024. She won her first LET title at the 2024 La Sella Open.
Helen Tamy Kreuzer is a German professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. In 2024, she won the Fidelity ADT Ladies Challenge on the Sunshine Ladies Tour. As an amateur she won the 2021 NCAA Division II Championship.