After a three-week break the Ladies European Tour (LET) is back in action this week returning to Seoul for the Aramco Championship Korea.
Part of the newly named PIF Global Series – the second of five tournaments across three continents in 2025 – 104 players from 33 nations will compete in both the Team and Individual competitions with a prize fund of $2,000,000 on offer.
New Korea Country Club is once again on hosting duties after the picturesque track staged last year’s Aramco Team Series event. The tournament takes place between 9-11 May and signals the second time the LET has visited South Korea’s capital.
World No 7 Hyo Joo Kim leads the field on home soil and will be defending her crown after storming to a three-shot shot victory in 2024. Kim is joined by compatriot and fellow Major winner Sung Hyun Park as well as USA’s Danielle Kang, the winning captain in last year’s Team event.
Elsewhere, LET winners are aplenty with no fewer than 35 champions teeing up in Seoul. This includes 2025 winners Perrine Delacour, victorious last time out in South Africa, Cara Gainer and Mimi Rhodes. The latter leads both the Order of Merit and Rookie of the Year race thanks to back-to-back victories in Australia and South Africa. A guest on the latest episode of The LET Golf Podcast, Rhodes is fully fit once again after withdrawing from last month’s Investec SA Women’s Open with an injury precaution.
Other marquee names competing in Seoul include Chiara Tamburlini, Alexandra Forsterling, Anne van Dam, Bronte Law, Trichat Cheenglab and Olivia Cowan.
Like previous Aramco Team Series events, the newly named Aramco Championship Korea will feature the Team and Individual competitions running alongside one another over the first 36 holes.
The field of 104 players will be split into 26 teams. One of those teams will be comprised of four South Korean amateurs, with the other 25 teams split into teams of four professionals.
Team captains were selected based off the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings as of Monday 28 April 2025. Captains pick in reverse order – e.g. the 25th ranked captain will pick first with Kim, the best ranked captain, picking last. Each captain will pick one team member to be on their team while their third and fourth member will be picked at random.
In the Team competition, offering a prize fund of $500,000, the best two gross scores from the four players on each hole will count towards their side’s overall score.
After a cut of the top-60 players has taken place following 36 holes of action, the final day will focus purely on the Individual competition. The winner will be crowned on May 11.
The Aramco Championship Korea marks the seventh event of the 2025 LET schedule and the final one before the circuit heads back to Europe for the crux of its schedule beginning with the Dutch Ladies Open.
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