Chiara Tamburlini is having quite the rookie season on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and it just keeps on getting better and better.
The Swiss star is a two-time winner on Tour having captured the Joburg Ladies Open and Lacoste Ladies Open de France titles.
Last week, Tamburlini captained her team to victory at the Aramco Team Series presented by PIF – Shenzhen and finished in a share of third place in the Individual competition.
The 24-year-old headlines the field for this week’s Wistron Ladies Open – Taiwan which is taking place at Sunrise Golf and Country Club.
It is the fifth edition of the tournament, but the first time it has been co-sanctioned between the LET and the TLPGA.
There are 108 professionals from 23 nations teeing it up including 45 LET players, 45 TLPGA players and 18 invites playing for a purse of USD $1 million.
Tamburlini is looking forward to the week ahead and is excited to play with and meet players from the TLPGA.
“Really good food, I got a nice massage and everybody is very welcoming here,” she said. “It’s been very nice. I’m excited to go play the course.
“I think it’s really special when two Tours come together and make it a bigger event. It feels like there’s more power when two forces combine. It’s really special.
“It’s great what Wistron are doing putting that much money in and trying to make it a world-class event. It’s really cool and a manifest of where women’s golf has been going in the last few years and will be going in the future.
“The TLPGA players all seem really nice! I actually recognise two girls that I played Arnold Palmer Cup within college. It’s really cool, I’m really excited to get to meet them. It’s always nice to get to meet new people and learn more about different cultures, I think it will be very fun.”
Tamburlini, who secured her LET card through the LET Access Series in 2023, leads both the LET Order of Merit and Rookie of the Year standings.
With four events of the LET season remaining, Tamburlini has a 549.98-point lead over Belgium’s Manon De Roey in the Order of Merit.
Reflecting on her life since turning professional last year, the two-time LET winner is loving being able to travel all over the globe.
“It’s been a crazy journey the last year for me and I’m just loving professional life,” she continued. “I love the LET. All the girls, all the staff, everybody is so nice and it almost feels like a big family when you travel week in week out.
“I really enjoy professional golf, it’s different from amateur in the sense that you play so much more and travel so much more. With the LET, we really travel all around the world but that’s what makes it so special that we get to see so many incredible places, meet new people. That’s a very enriching experience.”
Having been in such a rich vein of form over the past six weeks, Tamburlini isn’t putting any pressure on herself to do well.
The Ole Miss graduate knows she plays her best when she’s having fun and enjoying herself, so she will try and do that again this week.
She added: “I want to try and perform as well as I can for sure, my game has been feeling good the past couple of weeks. I’m not putting too much pressure on myself. I know I need to try and have fun, that’s how I play my best golf and we’ll see how it comes out in the end.”
Tamburlini will tee it up in the first round of the Wistron Ladies Open – Taiwan at 12.09 pm (local time) alongside Thailand’s P.K. Kongkraphan and Taiwan’s Pei-Ying Tsai.
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