The fourth of the six Aramco-branded events

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Virginia Elena Carta, Alessandra Fanali and Clara Manzalini will be on the field in the Aramco Team Series Presented By PIF – London (July 14-16), the fourth of the six Aramco-branded events of 2023 that are disputed with individual and team rankings. On the course of the Centurion Club, in Saint Albans, England, seven of the best ten of the Race To Costa del Sol (order of merit) including the n. 1, the Spanish Ana Pelaez Trivino and the n. 3, the Czech Klara Davidson Spilkova. Favorite also the Indian Diksha Dagar (n. 5), already victorious this year at the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open, the Swedish Johanna Gustavsson (n. 6), runner up at the Ladies Open By Pickala, the last race of the circuit, the English Lily May Humphreys (n. 7), the German Chiara Noja (n. 8) and the Spanish Carmen Alonso (n. 9), fresh from her victory in Finland.

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The blue Virginia Elena Carta appears to be growing and in the last three tournaments played on the LET she has not dropped beyond 22nd place. Alessandra Fanali and Clara Manzalini are also back on the field, both absent in Finland. The prize pool is $1,000,000.

Women's golf in Europe only depopulated some time after the creation of the LPGA in the United States of America. In 1978, the Women's Professional Golfers' Association (or simply WPGA) was founded, underpinning the largest operating Professional Golfers' Association in the United Kingdom. The following year a tour was established with Carlsberg as the main sponsor and including 12 tournaments (36 holes), including the Women's British Open. For his first two seasons the Tour fields were rated for 36 strokes, later increased to 54; the prize money also underwent an increase, going from the initial 80,000 pounds to 250,000 in 1981, at the cost, however, of the loss of important tournaments and sponsorships. At the end of the 1981 season the collaboration with Carlsberg ended, and despite an initial optimism, the Ladies European Tour experienced a period of crisis which culminated in the cancellation of further stages. In the second part of the eighties the circuit found itself with only 10 tournaments left and its future was called into question.

To overcome the crisis and its now low visibility, in 1988 the main exponents of the management decided to create an independent body, the Women Professional Golfers' European Tour Limited: the new entity then changed its main office, moving from The Belfry (shared with the PGA) at the Tytherington Club in Cheshire. In 1998 the Tour changed its name to the European Ladies' Professional Golf Association Limited and then to the Ladies European Tour Limited in July 2000. In 2008 the body changed headquarters again, this time settling at Buckinghamshire Golf Club, near London. In 2010 the Tour announced the creation of the LET Access Series (LETAS), its official development circuit.

In January 2020 the Ladies European Tour entered into a joint venture with the LPGA Tour, with the aim of further growing women's professional golf around the world: the Ladies European Golf Venture Limited became the central body of the board of directors and was joined by representatives of other realities such as LPGA Tour, PGA European Tour and The R&A.

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