The UK leg of the Women European Tour’s Aramco Staff Collection, which is being held at Centurion Membership from July 3-5, is shaping up as a preview for the Paris Olympics, with Nice Britain’s Charley Hull and Georgia Corridor set to tee it up within the high-class discipline which incorporates World No1 Nelly Korda.
The English duo are certain to be successful with the house crowds, and with additional bulletins set to observe on a robust discipline, each wish to construct on implausible 2023 outings on the match.
Final yr, Hull got here up simply brief to the all-conquering world no.1 Nelly Korda within the particular person competitors, whereas Corridor was in a position to captain her staff to victory in extraordinarily tough circumstances, edging out Hull’s staff by only one stroke.
Now England’s dynamic duo are aiming to safe their locations representing Nice Britain on the 2024 Paris Olympics and turn out to be the primary to win a medal for Staff GB in a ladies’s golf occasion.
The golf on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place Korda is ready to defend her gold medal from Tokyo 2020, kicks off a bit over a month after the Aramco Staff Collection – London occasion, and the ‘Main-like’ occasion at Centurion will present the pair the right alternative to arrange themselves of their quest for medals.
Hull has just lately achieved a career-high world rating of seventh following her spectacular runner-up end on the Aramco Staff Collection in Tampa in March.
Reflecting on her preparations for the summer time, Hull commented: “Firstly of the season I sat down and considered how I wished this yr to pan out. I knew that there could be an necessary summer time of golf forward with the Olympic Video games, Solheim Cup and chasing down my first Main title.
“I’m in the very best place I’ve ever been in my profession, mentally and bodily, so to have the Aramco Staff Collection at house is one of the best ways to open the extraordinary summer time forward.
Taking part in in a discipline with a number of the gamers I’ll face in Paris, and at a match like this that has that Main-like really feel, can be an excellent costume rehearsal for me to purpose for that gold medal.”
Excited in regards to the prospect of returning to London, Corridor stated: “The Aramco Staff Collection in London can be my first look within the occasion this yr and I’m buzzing to get again into taking part in with a staff which can hopefully be an excellent transition to the Solheim Cup in September.
“Competing towards Charley as a staff captain once more will add an additional layer of pleasure, particularly with family and friends cheering us on. I’ve performed my fair proportion of Majors and outdoors of these, the Aramco Staff Collection matches the vitality and discipline the very best. It’s all the time an excellent competitors with the highest gamers on the market.”
Becoming a member of Hull and Corridor can be a discipline stacked with expertise, together with Anne Van Dam of the Netherlands, Singapore’s Shannon Tan, and India’s Diksha Dagar.
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